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Gaetz's Battered Campaign Bled Almost $100,000
How Matt Gaetz’s Battered Campaign Bled Almost $100,000 in 2021 - thedailybeast.com
... his campaign committee, Friends of Matt Gaetz, ended with a $94,838.65 loss on the year ....
... the Gaetz campaign hemorrhaged well over a million dollars in costs last year that appear associated with the investigation and related fallout—more than one out of every five dollars raised in the same period. And even though the Gaetz campaign ended the year with a bit over $1.5 million in the bank, it's highly unusual for a congressman to spend more money in a non-election year than the campaign takes in. ....
... more than $100,000 of his campaign’s disbursements on the year went to lawyers. ... That 2021 total would have been more than $130,000, but one firm returned its $25,000 retainer after severing ties with the campaign ....
... Friends of Matt Gaetz paid more than its previous four-year total to one lawyer alone this year—$75,000 to Marc Fernich, who has represented convicted sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Keith Raniere, as well as mobster John Gotti and imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Fernich pocketed $50,000 in campaign cash last quarter. ......
... his campaign committee, Friends of Matt Gaetz, ended with a $94,838.65 loss on the year ....
... the Gaetz campaign hemorrhaged well over a million dollars in costs last year that appear associated with the investigation and related fallout—more than one out of every five dollars raised in the same period. And even though the Gaetz campaign ended the year with a bit over $1.5 million in the bank, it's highly unusual for a congressman to spend more money in a non-election year than the campaign takes in. ....
... more than $100,000 of his campaign’s disbursements on the year went to lawyers. ... That 2021 total would have been more than $130,000, but one firm returned its $25,000 retainer after severing ties with the campaign ....
... Friends of Matt Gaetz paid more than its previous four-year total to one lawyer alone this year—$75,000 to Marc Fernich, who has represented convicted sex traffickers Jeffrey Epstein and Keith Raniere, as well as mobster John Gotti and imprisoned drug lord Joaquín “El Chapo” Guzmán. Fernich pocketed $50,000 in campaign cash last quarter. ......
If a campaign pays for your legal fees, isn't that taxable income which must be declared?
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