Changing the funding cycle follows the same FEC candidate ID.
BEYOND THE FUNDING TOTAL
Accountability record
Accountability coverage for George Devolder-Santos. The same FEC matching rules apply to every candidate in the indexed financial snapshots. Records span years beyond the 2024 funding cycle. Campaign respondents and personal conduct are identified separately.
5,759 candidates checked · 7,669 FEC case titles scanned · retrieved Sep 15, 2026 · limited name matching
Campaign respondent: DEVOLDER-SANTOS FOR CONGRESS C00721365 ↗
Matched by complete committee name, verified against the case respondent list. The legal index itself does not supply candidate IDs.
Dismissed-Other
Respondents: GADS PAC; Boles, Jason D.; Devolder-Santos for Congress Recount; Devolder-Santos for Congress; Devolder-Santos Victory Committee
These are the FEC’s disposition labels. Closing a file does not establish guilt; a “reason to believe” decision is a procedural threshold. Repeated amounts for the same respondent group are shown once. Amounts across case numbers can overlap and must not be added.
Source retrieved Sep 15, 2026. This index does not review later litigation, reopening, or enforcement of the agreement.
Reviewed investigations & context
Supplementary source review
Partial review · includes broader investigations and context for selected FEC matters above · do not add these counts together
U.S. District Court / Department of Justice · 2:23-cr-00197
Fraud conviction; entire sentence later commuted
Criminal conviction
Action date
Oct 17, 2025
Conduct period
2022 campaign; guilty plea August 2024
Who the record concerns
George Anthony Devolder Santos, personally
Conduct described in the record
Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. DOJ described admissions involving false campaign-finance reports and charging donors’ credit cards without authorization.
Outcome / procedural status
Sentenced to 87 months in April 2025, Santos received a presidential commutation of his entire sentence to time served on October 17, 2025. The warrant specifies no further fines, restitution, probation, supervised release, or other conditions.
The later commutation changes the punishment; it does not erase the guilty plea or conviction. The original prison term and monetary obligations must not be presented as still outstanding under that sentence.
What “criminal conviction” means
A guilty plea or verdict. Sentencing, appeals, and later orders are described separately.
THE FUNDING CONNECTIONS · 2023–2024
George Devolder-Santos’s funding map
Full contribution categories on the left. Selected corporation-connected PAC transactions on the right. The company identifies the PAC’s registered affiliation, not the source of every dollar.
Solid lines: contribution totalsDotted lines: one transaction per PACReported through Dec 31, 2024
Individuals contributed more than political committees.Individuals $162,529.31 / Other political committees $0. The committee category includes more than company PACs.
PAC examples are selected from the latest matching transactions of up to eight corporation-connected committees; the map shows up to six. Latest nonpositive or explicitly voided records are omitted without substituting older records. Dotted lines are not weighted by dollars. Corporate PAC contributions are separate from employees’ personal contributions. Graph methodology ↗
A DIFFERENT MONEY TRAIL
Outside spending & dark money
Original donors: not determined
Independent expenditures support or oppose a candidate. This money is spent outside the campaign and is not paid to the candidate. These examples do not measure a “dark money” total.
What this can—and cannot—tell you about dark money
Some outside groups may receive funds whose original donors cannot be identified from these public records. Outside spending is not automatically dark money; a Super PAC or nonprofit label alone does not prove undisclosed funding. We do not classify donors’ disclosure status or estimate a hidden-dollar amount.
Amounts above are the latest dated example per spender and support/oppose position, not cumulative totals. Latest nonpositive or explicitly voided records are omitted without substituting older records. Amendments and memo entries are retained, not fully reconciled. Read the disclosure limits ↗
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