Editor’s Note: The volume of incriminating payment screenshots is too extensive to publish here. Every one of them has been archived and will be released as this investigation continues.
The last story The Current Report published on Congresswoman Sydney Kamlager-Dove, the scandal centered on a single, staggering truth: she and her husband stood to personally benefit from the $25 million Isaias Cervantes settlement, the third-largest police-misconduct payout in U.S. history, while her longtime political patron, Supervisor Holly J. Mitchell, quietly seconded the deal without disclosing that the attorney potentially pocketing millions was married to the sitting congresswoman. That revelation alone should have sent shockwaves through Los Angeles political circles. Instead, it turned out to be only the prologue to a much larger story.
What we have uncovered now makes the Cervantes scandal look like merely the opening scene of a much deeper, more calculated pattern of behavior. A deep review of federal campaign filings from both Rep. Kamlager-Dove’s main committee and her leadership PAC reveals an unmistakable trend: donor money being siphoned into a lifestyle of luxury that has no visible connection to actual campaigning. The receipts tell a story she has worked hard not to tell herself.
That’s nearly fifty thousand dollars in donor money on stadium skyboxes, chauffeured limousines, Capitol Hill steak dinners, soul-food catering, and liquor-store runs, with zero public evidence that a single donor, constituent, or voter ever saw a bite or a ticket.
Over the course of 2023 to 2025, nearly forty-eight thousand dollars in donor funds was spent on items that would make a hedge-fund titan blush: SoFi Stadium luxury suites, chauffeured limousines, fine dining, high-end catering, boutique charges, and even liquor runs disguised as “fundraising expenses.” One SoFi suite alone cost twenty-five thousand dollars on August 1, 2023. Another suite, twelve thousand five hundred dollars, appeared in the filings on January 31, 2025. Additional charges for SoFi tickets, catering, and stadium “expenses” appear repeatedly with no trace of an actual political event, no invitations, no donor lists, no photos, no social media posts, and no evidence they were anything other than private entertainment. Thousands more were spent on luxury transportation through Kingdom Limo, restaurant tabs in Washington, DC, catering orders, and multiple liquor purchases at Total Wine. All of it labeled as political activity. None of it supported by a shred of proof.
The Current Report has reviewed the payment timestamps and cross-referenced them with SoFi Stadium’s event calendar. The alignment isn’t subtle. The dates match major Rams home games, the Kendrick Lamar tour stop, and even the Beyoncé concerts, all appearing alongside “fundraising” and “campaign event” labels with no public record of an actual political event.
The pattern speaks for itself.
This wasn’t politics, it was a donor-funded nightlife itinerary.
Sources familiar with the filings tell The Current Report this is only the surface layer, that luxury hotels, private travel expenses, and boutique purchases are still buried deeper in the data. What we have already uncovered is simply the part she could not hide. The true total may be significantly higher, and reviewing the full scope of those transactions is the job of the House Ethics Committee, not the newsroom.
The scent of self-dealing doesn’t stop at her spending. On January 30, 2024, her leadership PAC cut a thousand-dollar check to Holly Mitchell’s reelection campaign. Less than five months later, Mitchell voted to approve the massive Cervantes payout that stands to enrich Kamlager-Dove’s husband by millions. Not a word of this relationship was disclosed publicly. The timing speaks for itself. And in politics, timing is everything.
The congresswoman has spent the past year lecturing America about transparency. On November 21, 2025, she posted a video insisting that Donald Trump should testify before Congress, declaring, “If you have nothing to hide, you should have everything to share.” So let’s follow her lead. If she has nothing to hide, then she should be willing to answer some very basic questions. Who exactly sat in the SoFi Stadium suite that cost twenty-five thousand dollars of donor money? What political purpose required nearly five hundred dollars worth of liquor on Valentine’s Day? Why did her PAC send Holly Mitchell a thousand-dollar donation just weeks before Mitchell took action that would directly benefit her husband financially? And where is even a single piece of evidence, a photo, an invitation, a donor thank-you — proving that any of these luxury expenses were tied to legitimate campaign activity?
These aren’t partisan attacks. They are verifiable facts documented in her own FEC filings. They are questions that flow naturally from her own public demands for transparency. And they are questions donors, taxpayers, and constituents deserve answers to.
An updated twenty-eight-page ethics complaint containing every receipt, every transaction ID, and a complete timeline of events has already been hand-delivered to the U.S. House Committee on Ethics as of November 24, 2025. That alone should alarm every voter, because Sydney Kamlager-Dove sits on the very committee now in possession of her own spending records. She has spent years calling for accountability from others. It is long past time she demonstrates it herself.
Donors do not contribute their hard-earned money so elected officials can enjoy luxury suites, chauffeured rides, steakhouse dinners, catered weekends, and wine-stocked “fundraisers” that never happened. Taxpayers did not expect their money to help finance a legal settlement that enriches a congresswoman’s spouse, orchestrated with the political support of her mentor. And the people of California’s 37th District did not elect a representative to treat federal campaign funds like a personal Black Card.
This story isn’t over. The filings tell the truth she won’t. The receipts are permanent. And the meticulously constructed façade Kamlager-Dove has sold to voters is starting to crack under the light of her own spending records.
We will keep digging until every questionable payment is accounted for, every backchannel donation is explained, and every conflict she tried to bury is dragged into the open. She can avoid questions, but she cannot avoid accountability.
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