The bizarre saga of how Marjorie Taylor Greene's campaign paid for the website of a potential Trump rival.
In Yiannopoulos’ version of events, the billing of Greene’s campaign for the Ye24.com site was an honest mistake. In his previous work for Greene, Yiannopoulos had set up a website for her podcast, and the credit card used to pay for that site remained active in his GoDaddy account. When it came time to pay for the Ye24.com domain, the staffer Yiannopoulos allegedly tasked with the purchase chose the same Amex.
Wartmans’s statement offers a similar sequence of events: “An individual previously contracted by my company had added a campaign card to their web hosting account to make legitimate campaign purchases relating to their duties during their tenure. This individual erroneously used the previously saved card for an inadvertent and unauthorized purpose.
The challenge with this notion of a second credit card transaction? There is no indication in the “Greene for Congress” FEC records reviewed bythat the $7,020.16 GoDaddy purchase was ever reversed. Pressed on this discrepancy, Yiannopoulos indicated skeptics would have to take his word. Wartman’s statement indicates the refund was never made.
Campaign finance experts suspect more than an innocent mistake at play. “For Milo Yiannopoulos, it seems like embezzlement — what under the law is called ‘conversion to personal use’ of the Kanye West campaign’s funds,” says Ghosh of the Campaign Legal Center. “In essence, he was getting reimbursed for something that he didn’t pay for.”
As for the Greene campaign? Ghosh says the money trail talks louder than any excuses. “They might argue, as grounds for mitigation, that this was an unauthorized transfer,” he says. “But the fact is they made an excessive contribution, and that still might be grounds for the FEC to impose a fine.” Wartman vowed in his new statement that the “clerical error will be corrected” in federal records “on the disclosure report covering the time period where the refund is attributed.
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