In May 2021, her GMG joined with a company Santos was about to incorporate called the Devolder Organization LLC and with four other Florida corporations to form in that state a political consulting firm named Red Strategies USA. Marks also became one of Santos’ business partners while serving as the treasurer for his most recent congressional bid. The group includes Marks’ two children who were, respectively, 19 and 22 years old when they started donating to Santos, according to public records. (The relatives each gave the legal maximum of $5,800.) These donors did not give to any other federal candidates this election cycle. She and several relatives contributed more than $30,000 to the Santos campaign. Marks was more than just a Santos campaign aide and vendor. (The Nassau County Republican Committee paid for most of that.) In the past two years, GMG made more than $38,000 from printing Santos signs. Also listed at her home address is a company called GMG Print and Marketing Resources LLC, which has printed lawn signs for Santos and other candidates.
Its address is Marks’ home in Shirley, New York. At the state level, Marks and her companies received at least $10,000 from Rise NY, a PAC that was run by Santos’ sister, Tiffany, and that paid her more than $21,000 in wages.Ĭampaigns Unlimited maintains a low public profile it apparently has no website. These entities included the 1776 Project PAC, a group that attacks progressive school curricula, numerous Republican House campaigns, and Santos’ GADS PAC. In the 2022 election cycle, Campaigns Unlimited worked for more than 30 PACs and candidate committees, according to FEC records. She’s been a treasurer for dozens of GOP campaigns, including Lee Zeldin’s congressional campaigns and his recent gubernatorial bid in New York. Her Campaigns Unlimited assists candidates, political action committees, and super PACs with accounting, fundraising, and campaign finance matters. Marks, who lives on Long Island, has for years worked in Republican politics, operating different businesses that provide services to campaigns. “They are just, on their face, obviously false.” “It is awfully hard to believe that whoever compiled and formally submitted Santos’ FEC reports believed that they were true,” Noti says. Marks’ consulting company, Campaigns Unlimited, was paid more than $100,000 by the Santos campaign for accounting and fundraising services, according to FEC records. One such payment was for a “hotel stay” at the W South Beach Hotel in Miami, Florida, where the going-rate for the least-expensive room is roughly $700 a night.Ĭampaign treasurers are generally not liable for campaign finance violations, but it is illegal for them to knowingly submit false reports, according to Adav Noti, senior vice president and legal director at the Campaign Legal Center. The complaint cited highly unusual items on Santos’ campaign finance reports, such as a long list of $199.99 disbursements-one penny under the amount that would have required itemization.
The named respondents were Santos, his campaign, his company, and Marks. On Monday, the Campaign Legal Center, a nonprofit watchdog group, filed a civil complaint with the Federal Election Commission alleging Santos’ campaign possibly violated numerous laws. Her story, which has yet to draw much public examination, is an important component of the Santos tale. Not only was she a key part of his political machine-and deeply tied into Republican politics locally and nationally-she was a business partner of Santos. As multiple investigations-federal, state, and local-envelope Santos and local Republicans demand he resign, one person who might be able to provide answers about his puzzling money trail is a veteran GOP operative named Nancy Marks, who was the the treasurer of Santos’ two congressional campaigns. This past weekend, George Santos, the Republican fabulist from New York, was sworn in as a member of the House of Representatives, even as serious questions remained about his personal and political finances, particularly the source of the millions of dollars in income he claimed on financial disclosure forms and of the $705,000 he loaned to his campaign.
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