Rep. Sharon Tomiko Santos' Election Campaign Defrauded for $20,000 by FBI Impersonators Claiming Treasurer Bought "Chine

Long time state legislator Rep. Sharon Santos lost the equivalent of nearly half the money contributed to her reelection campaign so far this year after a fraudster conned her campaign treasurer into giving them $20,000 last September.

According to Santos’ campaign treasurer Jeanne Legault, scammers impersonating her credit union and the FBI claimed she had been hacked and Santos’ campaign funds were used to purchase child sexual abuse material. Trying to rectify that fictional nightmare, Legault was tricked into handing a fake undercover FBI agent a literal gift-wrapped package of cash.

Santos’ campaign consultant Michael Charles says the Santos campaign never informed donors about the fraud loss in the intervening 10 months since the theft. Considering the decades worth of surplus campaign contributions stacked up in the account, it’s hard to say precisely whose donations were lost, he says.

Legault explained to The Stranger in detail how the scammers took advantage of her.






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