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https://thenationalpulse.com/2024/02/29/fec-complaints-seek-probe-of-kevin-mccarthy-pac-spending-at-luxury-resort/
FEC Complaints Seek Probe of Kevin McCarthy PAC Spending at Luxury Resort.
Friday, Mar 1, 2024
Federal election officials are being asked to investigate whether ex-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy illicitly benefited from approximately $240,000 his campaign committees spent at a luxury resort in Rancho Palos Verdes while serving in congressional leadership.
The petitions were lodged by two employees of the Terranea Resort, citing an LA Times investigation that publicized the committee expenditures spanning a period of two and a half years ending in 2018. The complaints, each five pages long, claim that McCarthy failed to provide detailed clarifications to the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) or The Times about the resort disbursements, raising questions about the actual utilization of the funds.
The complaints note that the funds “may have been made, not for valid PAC or campaign activities, but to personally enrich” McCarthy. Jill Thomson, the treasurer to McCarthy’s committees, and the committees themselves also stand accused in the paperwork. McCarthy’s spokesman, Drew Florio, did not respond to interview requests concerning the allegations.
Antonio Rodriguez and David Gomez Martinez, Terranea employees and supporters of a unionization campaign at the resort, lodged the complaints. The complaints also highlight that the resort’s owners are significant financial contributors to McCarthy’s committees, suggesting a highly “cozy” association. No explanation has been offered in McCarthy’s financial records for the substantial expenses incurred at Terranea during the specified period.
It is not known if Frank Luntz, the former Speaker’s roommate, vacationed at the luxury resort with McCarthy.
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