Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker’s campaign reportedly spent over half a million dollars on private jet travel during his unsuccessful 2022 bid in Georgia, with most of the money apparently going through a donor’s defunct car washing business.
The Walker campaign spent $595,000 on private air travel, nearly double the $350,000 the second-highest spender, former Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), put toward jet travel in the 2022 elections. A Fox Digital investigation found several odd details about the campaign’s finances, which the Federal Election Commission is already looking into due to a number of apparent accounting irregularities.
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The campaign, known as “Team Herschel,” wired 11 payments worth $595,606 to Jetts Car Wash, LLC, a business created in 2015 and dissolved in October, Fox reported. It belonged to Thomas Huff, who has owned several other businesses in Georgia and donated the maximum amount allowed to Walker in the primary and general elections. The Jetts business address switched to Huff’s residence in 2016. The LLC expired in October, but Team Herschel kept paying it for air travel into December.
In several campaign donations, Huff identified himself as the proprietor of Aviation Development Group, which owns a jet with flight records that correspond to the Walker campaign’s movements. Notably, Huff purchased the firm and jet from convicted sex trafficker and disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein in 2019, and then sued to have the sale canceled in 2021 since the jet and the company were “tainted” by Epstein’s crimes. A judge threw the case out in March, and Fox noted that the craft is not the infamous “Lolita Express” that transported underage girls and celebrities to Epstein’s island.
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Other political action committees associated with Walker apparently paid for use of the plane, with Team Herschel’s People’s Champion Committee disbursing $243,316 to Jetts between April 12, 2022, and Sept. 9, 2022.
Walker lost the Dec. 6 runoff election to Democratic incumbent Sen. Raphael Warnock, securing the Democrats’ outright majority in the Senate.
