A watchdog group alleges Rep. Eugene Vindman, D-Va., used campaign resources to promote the book by his brother Alexander Vindman—a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel who became famous during the first impeachment of President Donald Trump.
Americans for Public Trust, a conservative-leaning group, filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against the first-term House member on Monday.
The complaint cites instances after Vindman already won his House seat. In February and March of this year, Vindman’s still-existent campaign committee known as Vindman for Congress promoted the Alexander Vindman book “The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine,” the complaint says.
“It is clearly illegal to use campaign resources for personal use, and that is just what Rep. Vindman has done,” Caitlin Sutherland, executive…
