For greater than a dozen contributors listed as having donated vital quantities of cash to the marketing campaign of Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), the finance paperwork couldn’t be confirmed, Mother Jones found in an investigation of the information.

Donors recognized as Victoria and Jonathan Regor, for instance, purportedly every contributed the utmost quantity allowed — $2,800 — for Santos’s first bid for a Home seat in New York in 2020, which he misplaced, the journal famous.

Regardless of a search of databases, nobody named Victoria or Jonathan Regor could possibly be positioned anyplace within the U.S., Mom Jones reported Friday. Moreover, the outlet added that their listed tackle — 45 New Mexico Road, Jackson Township, New Jersey — doesn’t exist.

Santos’ 2020 marketing campaign finance reviews additionally listing a “Stephen Berger” at an tackle on Brandt Highway in Brawley, California, donating $2,500. However a spokesperson for rancher and Republican donor William Brandt instructed Mom Jones he has lived on the Brandt Highway tackle for at the very least 20 years and “neither he or his spouse have made any donations to George Santos.” Brandt has no thought who “Stephen Berger” could be.

Individually, the paperwork level to a different $2,800 marketing campaign donation attributed to a pal of Santos who denied to Mom Jones that he contributed.

Such “questionable donations” account for greater than $30,000 of the $338,000 the Santos marketing campaign raised from particular person donors in 2020, in response to the journal.

Santos’ marketing campaign paperwork are starting to look as fib-riddled because the lawmaker’s tales about his life. He has lied about his heritage, household, training, and work expertise. But Santos has ignored requires his resignation and has claimed he merely “embellished” his résumé.

Amendments this week to finance kinds for his newest marketing campaign point out {that a} $700,000 donation to his newest marketing campaign in Lengthy Island that the lawmaker had claimed was a mortgage from him did not come from Santos in spite of everything. That leaves a big thriller in regards to the supply of the funds.

Santos had stated he made $55,000 a 12 months earlier than launching the Devolder Group in 2021. Nonetheless, the funding for beginning up the mysterious firm — which had no web site and was dissolved shortly after it was launched — is murky.

He claimed that the corporate, instantly allegedly price hundreds of thousands, rocketed his salary to $750,000. That supposedly helped him finance his campaign — which has now been contradicted by the modifications to the marketing campaign finance submitting. On Wednesday, an agitated Santos insisted to reporters he wasn’t personally involved in amending the marketing campaign finance reviews.

Santos’ marketing campaign committee additionally instructed federal regulators on Wednesday that it had hired a new treasurer — however the man it named stated he had not accepted the job.

The Washington Put up reported Friday that the Department of Justice had instructed the Federal Election Commission to carry off on any civil enforcement motion concerning potential Santos marketing campaign violations. It’s the clearest sign but that the Justice Division has already launched its own criminal investigation into Santos’ marketing campaign funds, the Put up famous.

Santos couldn’t be reached for remark.