GOP Sen. Candidate Royce White Accused of ‘Outrageous’ Illegal Spending

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The former basketball star hopes to win a Senate spot from Minnesota but the Campaign Legal Center claims 'knowing and willful' law violations—including a Miami strip club

The former basketball star hopes to win a Senate spot from Minnesota but the Campaign Legal Center claims 'knowing and willful' law violations—including a Miami strip clubA new complaint targets “outrageous” campaign spending by Republican senatorial candidate Royce White, arguing that his old campaign’s opaque reports and rampant splurges on a range of indulgences—including a $1,200 night at a Miami strip club—add up to a “wholesale failure” to follow the law and an attempt to cover it...

“It is imperative that the FEC investigate these apparent violations of the campaign finance laws that safeguard our elections from financial malfeasance.”in May, in just eight months White’s 2022 congressional campaign racked up eye-popping, seemingly personal expenses that campaign finance experts described as potentially criminal.

In 2022, White was a longshot outsider against Rep. Ilhan Omar . The CLC complaint identifies more than $157,000 in potentially impermissible expenses incurred over White’s brief candidacy, including several large wire transfers and checks with no listed recipient or purpose. Some of White’s expenses, CLC says, appear illegal “even without more information” about their purpose.value that are used in the campaign,” and “admission to a sporting event, concert, theater or other form of entertainment, unless part of a specific campaign or officeholder activity.”

CLC argues that “there is ample indication” that White’s Senate campaign has not disclosed a number of expenses and payments. “These specific illustrations of the disconnect between White’s Senate campaign’s operations—which is plainly incurring expenses and making payments to advance White’s candidacy—and the wholesale lack of reported disbursements on the campaign’s disclosure reports provide reason to believe White’s 2024 campaign committee has deliberately failed to comply with basic reporting requirements,” the complaint states.

 

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