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Friday, January 27, 2023
Vol. 8, No. 4
PortWashingtonTimes imes HEALTH, WELLNESS AND BEAUTY
EAST SIDE ACCESS OPENS
LURVEY, DESENA CLASH ON DEPARTMENT GAINS
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Santos changes story on source of funds
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Modifies federal filing to show $500K less in questioned personal loan BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z Republican U.S. Rep. George Santos filed new campaign disclosure reports Tuesday that changed the source of a $500,000 loan previously claimed as “personal funds.” Financial disclosure reports Santos filed following the November election showed an outstanding balance of $630,000 on loans from his personal funds. He had originally listed a $705,000 loan to his campaign. Filings on Tuesday showed that $500,000 in loans were not listed from his personal funds and did not specify where the loan originated. Money Santos listed as a loan in his campaign filings and its source have been questioned in complaints filed with the Federal Election Commission. Santos’ campaign lawyer Joe Murray, told Newsday that “Due to the FEC complaints it would be inappropriate to comment on an open investigation.” Efforts to reach a representative from Santos’ Congressional office for comment were unavailing. Santos faces a pair of new complaints filed by a watchdog group and two of his Democratic colleagues from New York. The Campaign Legal Center, a
nonprofit organization that aims to advance democracy through the law, questioned the newly-elected congressman’s influx of wealth after reporting a salary of $55,000 in 2020 to $750,000 in 2022 and $1 million to $5 million in dividends. The organization also called the congressman’s $705,000 loan to his campaign into question, claiming he falsified reports on nearly 40 expenditure filings under $200. The center filed the complaint with the Federal Election Commission on Monday and to the Public Integrity Section of the U.S. Department of Justice. Democratic U.S. Reps. Ritchie Torres and Daniel Goldman filed a complaint with the House Ethics Committee on Tuesday for allegedly violating the Ethics in Government Act, saying the Republican must be held accountable for deceiving voters and Congress. The Ethics in Government Act, officials said, was created to “preserve and promote the integrity of public officials and institutions,” which Torres and Goldman believe Santos has failed to adhere to. The two described financial reports submitted in 2020 and 2022 as “sparse and perplexing” in the complaint. Continued on Page 34
PHOTO COURTESY OF THE PORT WASHINGTON SCHOOL DISTRICT
Guggenheim kindergarteners celebrated the Lunar New Year last week with an annual parade around the school.
Ex union prez, Port’s Mullins pleads guilty BY R OB E RT PE L A E Z
to defrauding the 13,000-member union of $1 million on Thursday, Edward Mullins, the former federal officials announced. Mullins, who was charged with head of the NYPD’s Sergeants Benevolent Association and a Port wire fraud in February 2022, admitWashington resident, pleaded guilty ted to his involvement in a scheme
to collect hundreds of thousands of dollars from the Sergeants Benevolent Association by submitting falsified expense reports. Around September 2017, offiContinued on Page 35
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