Representative Eugene Vindman’s The campaign disbursed $ 38,783 in which he described a “fund collection expense” last month in a Florida bookstore where his brother celebrated signature events for his best -selling book Criticize Western politics towards RussiaThey reveal financial revelations.
Vindman’s twin brother, Alexander, a lieutenant colonel retired from the army who was a Key figure in President Trump’s first accusation – He boasted to sign hundreds of copies of his volume “The madness of realism” in books and books at the time of the mysterious disbursements of his brother’s campaign.
Books & Books has several stores in the Miami area, but an employee of the Gable Coral store confirmed to the publication on Wednesday that Alexander Vindman had book signs in that place, which is where the campaign payments were directed.
That individual also said that Eugene Vindman’s team had asked earlier in the day what the store would do if a journalist asked asking questions.
The records of the Federal Electoral Commission do not specify what the alleged “fund collection expense” implied, or if those funds went to bulk purchases of Alexander Vindman’s book, whose letter broke the crunch of the letter. Bestseller of the “Non fiction” of the New York Times “ List of the week ending on March 16.
“The Folly of Realism” was launched on February 25 of Hachette Book Group at an initial cost of $ 30. Ten days later, on March 7, the Eugene Vindman campaign made a payment of $ 7,809.55 to Books & Books. A second payment was processed, for $ 30,972.97, March 20.
Around the last 15 years, there has been no FEC registration Or the main political fund collectors in Books & Books, with only a few expenses for meals for a total of no more than $ 54 listed by groups such as the Emily list and the 2010 campaign of the successful mayor of Miami Maurice Ferré for Usate.
The FEC records show that Books & Books was the only Florida -based company that received payments of the duration of the Vindman campaign the first quarter of 2025.
On March 9, two days after the payment of $ 7,810 to Books & Books, Alexander Vindman published a photo of his copies firm or “the madness of realism.”
On March 21, one day after the second payment of $ 30,973, Eugene Vindman published photos on social networks that show it in a Cookoff Chile in Caroline County, VA. The day before.
April 12, Alexander Vindman announced that he had signed 800 more copies of his book in the Florida store.
The publication contacted the representatives of both Vindman brothers to comment. The publication also contacted Books & Books Management to ask about whether a place of collection of political funds in the store.
Eugene Vindman won the races little to represent the seventh district of Virginia in a Message to fight corruptionpromoting his efforts to help his twin brother against Trump.
“The hypocrisy of Eugene Vindman is rich,” he told The Post, spokesman for the National Committee of the Republican Congress, Maureen O’Toole.
“Vindman is in Congress to advance in his own out of contact and, apparently, rescue his family’s abysmal literary efforts,” he added. “The Virginians will kick this liar loser on the sidewalk next November.”
The publication previously reported That the now congressman refused to answer questions last year about trips financed by Wheter taxpayers to Ukraine played a role in his businesses to try to sell weapons to kyiv.
Eugene Vindman had He boasted Prince William Times At the end of 2023, on making 14 trips to the country devastated by the war, funded by the State Department Program of the “Aurocity Crime Advisory Group”.
Duration that the deadline, his company, Trident Support LLC worked to sell to the Ukrainian government a weapons system. That company also used the same box PO as the Vindman Congress campaign.
Vindman entered Trident $ 125,000 in early 2024 despite the reports that he did not earn a company’s salary, Financial Dissemination Sample.
