Star athlete and conspiracy theorist Royce White just landed the Minnesota GOP’s endorsement for Senate. They must not have seen his previous campaign expenses.
in donor funds to a vendor 1,800 miles away not typically associated with political expenses—an all-nude strip club in Miami, Florida, called “Gold Rush Cabaret.”
. The state will hold its primary in August, with the winner going on to face Democratic incumbent Sen. Amy Klobuchar in November.Asked whether he was aware of the outrageous 2022 spending, Minnesota GOP chair David Hann told The Daily Beast on Wednesday that he was not in his office at the moment and could not comment, then hung up.. White’s expenses now have campaign finance experts picking their jaws up off the floor—with some indicating that he may have outdone even Santos.
“Misusing campaign funds can be a serious criminal offense—many politicians have gone to jail for diverting donor funds to personal expenses,” Fischer noted. And while the campaign’s reports were difficult to decipher, he said, “A close read suggests an incredibly long list of illegal expenditures.” Also concerning are the more than $100,000 in outgoing wire transfers and checks with no stated recipient or purpose. Those payments, all experts said—coupled with multiple unexplained cash withdrawals—raise concerns about whether White or staffers treated campaign donations like personal funds.
It would be an unorthodox campaign strategy, to say the least—using donor funds to support and apparently outfit an entourage documenting a professional sports tour hundreds of miles from the congressional district, where the primary was weeks away.
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