Campaign finance experts expressed concern following a Fox News Digital report showing former Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign paid a defunct car wash hundreds of thousands of dollars for private jet travel.
Team Herschel, Walker’s main campaign organization, paid a company named Jetts roughly $595,600 to charter private jets between March and December last year. Other Walker-linked committed paid another $270,000 to Jetts throughout the year. However, a Fox News Digital investigation previously determined that the company was registered in Georgia as Jetts Car Wash, LLC, a defunct 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 in an interview. “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.”
HERSCHEL WALKER’S CURIOUS CASE OF $595K IN PRIVATE JETS AND A DONOR-OWNED CAR WASH
According to state filings, Jetts Car Wash is owned by an individual named Thomas Huff who contributed the maximum allowable amount to Walker’s campaign. On Oct. 18, 2021, months before the private jet payments began, Huff and his father, mother and wife each sent maximum contributions of $2,900 for both the general and primary elections, totaling $23,200 between the relatives.
The car wash was founded in Kennesaw, Georgia, in 2015 by a…
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