George Santos is allowed to effectively solicit donations to... pay himself. And he’s got Ted Cruz to thank for the arrangement.
$705,000, he claims to have done so in the form of personal loans. And thanks to a Supreme Court ruling last year in favor of Sen. Ted Cruz , he can still repay himself every penny., handed down in June, eliminated the previous $250,000 cap on loans candidates can recoup with money raised after an election. It drew swift condemnation from campaign finance reform advocates—as well as the Court’s three liberal justices—who saw it as an invitation to corruption.
“The ruling was egregiously bad as far as ‘the appearance of corruption,’ at a minimum,” Ghosh said, referring to one of thethe Cruz case had to clear. “Before the Cruz decision, there’d be a limit on how much he could pay himself back after the election. But now there’s no limit, so the potential for corruption is enormous.”
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