New York Post: Dem Rep. Eugene Vindman hit with FEC complaint after campaign promoted brother’s book
May 19, 2025
Rep. Eugene Vindman (D-Va.) was slapped with a complaint Monday accusing him of using campaign money to promote a book authored by his twin brother Alexander — a key witness in President Trump’s first impeachment.
According to the complaint by Americans for Public Trust (APT), Eugene’s campaign team touted Alexander’s book “The Folly of Realism: How the West Deceived Itself About Russia and Betrayed Ukraine” in fundraising email blasts sent Feb. 27 and March 7 of this year.
The Post previously reported that Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show that Eugene’s campaign paid $38,783 to a South Florida bookstore where Alexander was concurrently signing copies of the tome as a “fundraising expense.”
“It is clearly illegal to use campaign resources for personal use, and that is just what Representative Vindman has done,” said Americans for Public Trust executive director Caitlin Sutherland.
“Rep. Vindman misused campaign resources to help promote his brother’s book all the way to the New York Times bestseller list. The tens of thousands of campaign dollars spent to subsidize his brother’s spurious book should be immediately investigated by the FEC.”
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Alexander Vindman’s book briefly made the New York Times “hardcover nonfiction” bestseller list during the week ending March 16.
Eugene Vindman won a close race to represent Virginia’s 7th District last November with a message centered on fighting against corruption, highlighting his efforts to assist his twin brother in testifying against Trump.
The Post previously reported that the now-congressman eschewed questions last year about whether his taxpayer-funded trips to Ukraine played a role in his business ventures of trying to sell weapons to Kyiv.
Eugene told the Prince William Times that as of late 2023, he had made 14 trips to the war-torn country, funded by the “Atrocity Crimes Advisory Group” State Department program.
But during that time, his company, Trident Support LLC, worked to sell the Ukrainian government a weapons system. That firm also used the same PO box as Vindman’s congressional campaign.
Vindman raked in $125,000 from Trident early last year despite reports that he did not earn a salary from the company, financial disclosures show.
