George Santos now says campaign loan wasn't from personal funds
Rep. George Santos revised his 2022 campaign filings on Tuesday by specifying that a $500,000 loan he made to the campaign didn't come from his personal funds.
Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., made a significant revision to his 2022 campaign filings Tuesday by specifying that a $500,000 loan he made to the campaign didn't come from his personal funds.
The initial filing in September included a checked box saying the hefty loan came from the "personal funds of the candidate." In the new filing, which was first reported by the Daily Beast, that box is unchecked.
The amended filing, however, provides no new information about the source of the funds — it says only that the loan came from the candidate but wasn't his personal money.
About $150,000 in loans is still marked as having come from his personal funds. A separate filing shows a new $125,000 loan that came from Santos in October but was not from his personal funds.
In an interview last month with WABC radio, Santos said the loans were money "I paid myself" through the Devolder Organization, his company.
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