A complaint has been filed with the Federal Elections Commission against freshman Rep. Eugene Vindman, D-Va., accusing him of using campaign money to promote a book authored by his twin Alexander, the whistleblower behind President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
Eugene Vindman’s campaign team promoted his brother’s book “The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine” in fundraising emails sent Feb. 27 and March 7, the New York Post reported Monday. The Post previously reported that FEC filings showed that Eugene Vindman’s campaign paid more than $38,000 to a South Florida bookstore where his brother was signing copies of the book as a “fundraising expense.”
Federal election law prohibits money given to campaign committees from being used personally by the candidate or any other person, said Americans for Public Trust, which filed the complaint Monday. The FEC also has recognized that political committees’ mailings lists are assets that have value, and the use of campaign assets to promote a book is usually a “prohibited personal use.”
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