Serial blowhard Eric Swalwell, the California Democrat who’s built a career attacking Donald Trump, could be facing some serious scrutiny of his own.
In a report published Friday, Fox News Digital revealed that Federal Election Commission filings for Swalwell’s campaign and a political action committee show mysterious payments to a staffer totaling more than $360,000 over the past three years.
Supposedly covering services on the gamut from “flower reimbursements” to security, they’re payments one former FEC commissioner said deserve serious questioning by the agency.
“This is the type of bizarre inconsistency that should catch the attention of the FEC,” Hans von Spakovsky, now a senior fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation, told Fox News.
The payments, recorded by the Swalwell for Congress campaign and Swalwell’s Remedy PAC, were made to Darly Meyer, a Haitian-American, for amounts ranging from a trifling $53 to more than $12,000, Fox reported.
“The FEC filings list several different reasons for the payments, ranging from travel expenses, car service to security services to salary. There are also several payments to Meyer for things like ‘personal travel expense reimbursement,’ ‘event flowers reimbursement’ and postage,” Fox reported.
There could well be innocent explanations for all of those expenses. Political campaigns, after all, include a variety of events.
And according to Fox, Meyer is not just a staffer on Swalwell’s campaign; he’s the owner of a North Hollywood, California, limousine company called CYD Global Car Service LLC.
Political campaigns obviously involve a lot of travel, and security arrangements are a part of modern public life. (The Charlie Kirk assassination alone proves that).
But according to Fox, one snag for Swalwell comes from the filings that note Meyer was paid for “security.” Fox noted that Meyer does not appear to have a security license, according to California’s Bureau of Security and Investigative Services.
Meyer is also an administrator of a Facebook page called Calihaitians, made up of Haitian expatriates living in California, Arizona, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon, and Washington.
The Fox revelations are another turn for Swalwell in the national spotlight — and virtually none of them are good.
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