Lee Zeldin dumped the campaign treasurer he shared with the deceitful George Santos

Former Rep. Lee Zeldin announced Monday that he is setting up a new political action committee without Nancy Marks, the longtime treasurer he shared with disgraced Rep. George Santos.

“We will be announcing a new federal PAC that is being created right now using a different treasurer.” – Zeldin (R-NY) said at the New York State Conservative Party Political Action Conference in Albany, New York.

Last week, Marks notified the Federal Election Commission that she had resigned from the Santos (R-NY) campaign and associated political committees. Her announcement comes a week after the Santos campaign named a replacement who claims she didn’t agree to take the job amid the discovery of multiple campaign finance irregularities that appear to have caught the attention of federal investigators.

“The treasurer has about 200 different accounts,” Zeldin said. according to Politicodistancing themselves from Marx.

“Our communication was through Marx’s daughters,” Zeldin added, admitting that his children go to the same Long Island school as Marx.

Marks has been Zeldin’s campaign treasurer since his election in 2010 as Suffolk County’s representative in the New York State Senate. She was recently listed as the treasurer of his failed 2022 campaign for governor of New York.

Marks did not respond to The Post’s requests for comment.

Santos’ campaign finance disclosures came under scrutiny after he admitted to The Post in December that he had lied about nearly his entire campaign resume.

One watchdog group called the multiple campaign spending of $199.99 – a penny below the $200 threshold for FEC detailing – “statistically implausible” and a sign of “deliberately falsified” reporting.

The Long Island Republican’s relative from Queens was “stunned” when Mother Jones said last week they were on the list of people who made two $2,900 donations to the Santos campaign, denying they made donations.

Last month, Santos’ team amended several campaign finance documents to show that the $500,000 loan he made for his 2022 congressional campaign was not from “candidate’s personal funds.” It is not known where the funds he lent to his campaign came from.

The surge in campaign activity came after a lawyer for Thomas Datwyler, the man the Santos campaign named as its new treasurer last month, said the Santos team appointed him treasurer without his permission.

The Justice Department has reportedly asked the Federal Election Commission not to initiate enforcement action against Santos as it continues its criminal investigation into the disgraced MP.

A guide sent by the Justice Department’s Public Ethics Office signals that federal prosecutors may focus their investigation into Santos on his campaign finances.

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