Roughly $5.3 million of the money spent by Sen. Tim Scott's presidential campaign has gone to newly formed companies whose addresses are Staples stores in suburban strip malls. The mystery of how Tim Scott's campaign is spending its millions:
Sen. Tim Scott , a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, left, poses for a photograph with supporters at a campaign event in Ankeny, Iowa on Thursday, July 27, 2023.
Campaign finance experts said that among increasingly brazen moves by political candidates, Scott’s new financial disclosures stood out as exhibit A. The campaign of Gov. Ron DeSantis of Florida made two payments last quarter, totaling more than $480,000, for “travel” to a company in Athens, Georgia. The company was set up around the time he entered the race and lists Paul Kilgore — a Republican political operative — as a manager.
Meeting Street Services has no online presence and has not been paid by any other campaign, records show. Its listed address, in North Charleston, South Carolina, is a Staples store. Records show that the company was set up in Delaware in August 2022, and its incorporation documents list only one name — Barry Benjamin — as an authorized representative.
Scott’s use of Meeting Street Services LLC predates his entry into the presidential race. In the last four months of 2022, his Senate campaign paid the company more than $4.5 million, filings show, for television ads, digital fundraising and other consulting.
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