Rep George Santos' comm director, Rafaello "Raffi" Carone, the guy who writes Santos' tweets, is from Dix Hills NY & went to the same high school as Santos' press secretary, Gabby Lipsky...
Someone who went to high school w Raffi told me he was somewhat insufferable & not the brightest tool in the shed. Also provided a couple of pix from one of Raffi's social media accounts...
The Gays Against Groomers listed Raffi Carone as an original bard member. Unfortunately, that page was taken down. (I have no idea if Raffi is gay)...
Cait Corrigan's short lived campaign paid Raffi Carone & Madison Cawthorn's former chief of staff William "Blake" Harp a total of $8k in 2022...
Rafaello Carone was employed by the RNC in 2020 & subsequently was paid by another dozen or so political committees...
As I've commented in the past, Raffi Carone has an extensive LinkedIn profile, especially in light of his young age...
Two Santos Election Night photos from QNS story by @Piazzafan1000. I can pick out Tina Marie Oppedisano, Vickie Paladino & Santos' husband. Don't know the woman behind Santos or the two men flanking him in the other photo....
How much of an upcharge were treasurer Nancy Marks & her cohorts slapping on campaign purchases of lawn signs via GMG Printing & Mp Print? Per FEC records, Suffolk Cty Republicans Lafota, Cornicelli & Figliola all used East End Sign Design in Mastic...
Nancy Marks & Nicole DeLuca's daughter, Marissa, don't own actual printing businesses. GMG & Mp Print were set up to pull more cash out of political campaigns like Zeldin's & others...
If you're not familiar w the Mastic-Shirley area, Nancy Marks' firm, Campaigns Unlimited, is 2 miles away from East Sign Design... eastendsigndesign.com
If you're just tuning in, here's the backstory on MP Print & Design. Nancy Marks' company, GMG Printing & Marketing Resources, LLC, did business w the Santos & Cummings campaigns along w many other NYS campaigns..
I expected to see GMG Printing to be a Zeldin For Congress & a Zeldin For Governor vendor but it wasn't. Zeldin For Congress did pay $36k to MP Print & Design for lawn signs in 2020....
When I figured out how to search for vendors in the NYS campaign database, I saw five different variations of MP Printing w the Mastic p.o. box address & one street address in Mastic & one in Manorville...
Santos donated $75 to Vickie Paladino on Oct 17 2018. By Sept 11 2019, he had hired Nancy Marks & the campaign paid her $505 on that date using an Amex cc....
The Santos campaign reported a $2k disbursement via Amex cc to the Nassau County Republican Committee (federal account) on Oct 10 2019 but the committee didn't report a single transaction in the 2019-2020 election cycle....
The Santos campaign reported two disbursements to Amex in the 2019-2020 cycle, one on Jan 4 2020 & the other on Feb 4 2020. Oddly enough, the Sept 11 2019 $505 payment to Campaigns Unlimited was on the Feb 4 Amex bill....
How long has Nassau County Republican Party Chairman Joe Cairo known George Santos? Since at least Sept 24 2019. Cairo w Santos & Lee Greenwood, Brookville, late Aug 2022....
Presumably, George Santos told Joe Cairo something about himself in Sept 2019. At the very least, I would think Santos gave Cairo's staff the address of his apartment in Whitestone or wherever he was living at the time...
By the time Santos met Cairo on Sept 24 2019, the Santos campaign had already hired Nancy Marks as treasurer & paid her $505 on Sept 11 2019. The first statement of organization was filed w the FEC on Oct 2 2019...
Anyone know who Boca Bubbe & Merrill Schwartz are? Is one Lee Zeldin's stepmother & the other his mother?
Merrill Schwartz is Lee Zeldin's mother (ty @mrsberthamason1). I guess Boca Bubbe seen here on left w Ann Schockett & Sally Hogan is his stepmother...
Not asking just to be nosy. I think David E Zeldin, private investigator, Bellmore, is Lee's father. You'd think he could have done a quick background check on Santos...