He had just flipped a Long Island congressional seat, improbably helping deliver Republicans a House majority.
Over just a few days last November, Mr. Santos dropped $6,000 at Ferragamo, perhaps some of it on the red designer sneakers he later wore to walk the marble halls of Congress.
He paid off his rent, and he pulled out another $1,000 in spending money at an A.T.M.
It would have been nothing for the kind of wealthy financier Mr. Santos purported to be on the campaign trail.
All of it was being illegally funded by Mr. Santos’s congressional campaign, which wired him $20,000 just after Thanksgiving without ever telling campaign donors or the Federal Election Commission.
Persons:
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Organizations:
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Locations:
Ferragamo, Queens