ICYMI: Walker Facing Calls for Department of Justice Investigation into Finances

Herschel Walker continues to face mounting scrutiny after reports from the Georgia Recorder and Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed he’s facing renewed calls for the Department of Justice to investigate the improper filings and potential conflicts of interest in his financial disclosures — including the source of more than $3,000,000 in previously-undisclosed revenue for his business. 

Walker latest to get flagged for campaign filing omission as Georgia Senate race heats up

Georgia Recorder, Ross Wlliams, 7/14/2022

• Republican senate candidate Herschel Walker is once again facing scrutiny over a finance disclosure originally filed in December, and a left-leaning political action committee is renewing its call for an investigation.
  
• End Citizens United asked the U.S. Department of Justice in April to investigate whether Walker broke the law in a report they said omitted required funding sources.
  
• The next month, Walker updated his filing, bringing his reported earned and non-investment income from about $925,000 to about $4.1 million with the addition of $3.2 million from H. Walker Enterprises.
  
• On Monday, the group wrote a second letter to the justice department alleging that irregularities still have not been cleared up.
  
• End Citizens United alleges Walker did not properly report that $3.2 million in the amended report and failed to properly disclose more than $680,000 he received for 17 speeches between July 2020 and December 2021.
  
• That seems suspicious, said Tiffany Muller, President of End Citizens United.
  
• “When ECU filed that first motion, Walker claimed he’d done everything by the book. But yet, just three weeks later, he revealed that he conveniently forgot to properly disclose $3 million in earnings. And even after getting caught and refiling his financial disclosure, we discovered he’s still hiding the truth from Georgians. He just can’t be honest. He’s still not reporting the many sources of that $3 million, which clients he got it from, what he did for that money, and what financial relationships he maintains with those clients to this day. $3 million. That’s not money you easily forget, unless you’re trying to hide something.”
  
• The Walker campaign dismissed the letter as an election-year ploy.

The Jolt: Is the Republican civil war in Georgia over?

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, 7/15/22

• ETHICS WATCH. A group that supports an overhaul of federal campaign finance laws wants federal prosecutors to investigate Republican Senate nominee Herschel Walker.
  
• In a complaint filed with the Justice Department, End Citizens United said Walker submitted a personal financial disclosure which omitted details of more than $3 million worth of business dealings from his company, H. Walker Enterprises.
  
• Walker filed an amended financial disclosure earlier this year after the same group filed a separate complaint. ECU President Tiffany Muller said Thursday that the updated filing still didn’t provide all the required information.
  
• “He’s still not reporting the many sources of that $3 million, which clients he got it from, what he did for that money, and what financial relationships he maintains with those clients to this day,” Muller said.

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