Lying and thieving piece of shit Congressman George Santos made a habit of expensing $199.99 transactions at places like a Queens Italian restaurant and a fancy Miami-area hotel to his campaign, doing so multiple times in 2022, Politico reports while explaining that it doesn’t appear to be a coincidence that $200.00 is the max amount for which campaigns are not required to retain receipts for the FEC. It’s exceedingly rare for a campaign to mark an expense between $199.00 and $199.99.
Only 80 such transactions were recorded by all 450 or so House and Senate campaigns in 2022, and only 10 percent of campaigns had any $199 transactions. Santos did it 40 times. Not hard to imagine he would tell a waiter or hotel clerk to run the campaign card for $199.99 exactly and then pay the rest in cash or another card. Nice work if you can lie and cheat enough to get it.