Last week, Fox News Digital published a report that showed former Republican candidate for Senate Herschel Walker spent a massive amount of campaign to a defunct car wash owned by a donor.
That revelation appeared to open the floodgates to further investigations into what Walker’s campaign did with all of its money before and after losing the election to Senator Raphael Warnock.
In a new report, it appears that the former Georgia Bulldogs football star spent lavishly on items that don’t seem to have helped or even had anything to do with the election.
According to Fox News Digital, Walker’s campaign organization paid a company named Jetts around $595,600 to charter private jets between March and December 2022. Another Walker-linked campaign group paid Jetts $270,000 as well.
What makes that strange is that the company was registered in Georgia as Jetts Car Wash, LLC, an out-of-business car wash owned by a Walker campaign donor.
“The amount of money involved is eye-catching. It’s certainly not a small sum in the context of a campaign, even for a statewide office like Senate,” Saurav Ghosh, the director of federal reform for the nonprofit group Campaign Legal Center, told Fox News Digital. “This whole notion that a campaign is spending almost $600,000 at a car wash is very, very concerning.”
“When someone discloses such a large amount and it’s unclear exactly what they were paying for and how they could have spent so much money — particularly given the connection between the owner of that business and the campaign itself — it certainly raises a lot of concerns about there being some very corrupt type of deal in which they were agreeing to spend the money with his business in exchange for the campaign donations.”
The same person who owns the car wash business also appears to own a Gulfstream IV aircraft that was previously owned by Jeffrey Epstein. Ghosh surmises that the payments for the private jet usage may have been hidden in order to avoid any potential link between Walker and Epstein.
“Unfortunately, that’s exactly what campaign finance law prohibits — is keeping it hidden where you’re getting money and how you’re spending,” he continued. “The basic concept of election transparency about election spending requires that campaigns specify exactly what they’re spending money on and what they’re getting when they purchase something.”
“If that’s what it was — you know, some sort of payments to a different entity owned by the same person that were actually for private jet travel that they didn’t want everyone to know about because of the provenance of that jet, that that’s a campaign finance violation and that’s the sort of thing campaign finance laws exist to prevent.”
The FEC might already be working on this and other matters. The Daily Beast reported in February that they had sent a letter to Team Herschel earlier this month regarding the violation of various election campaign laws.
