Herschel Walker lost his bid for Senate in 2022 and hasn’t engaged in politics since. Yet, a political action committee associated with his former campaign spent over $20,000 on a private charter jet on the day of President Donald Trump’s inauguration in 2025, according to public filings.
The itemized disbursement was reported on Bo 34 PAC’s midyear 2025 report. It was paid to Aviation Development Group for an air charter on Jan. 20, 2025, and cost $20,478.79.
“It looks like a striking example of ‘zombie campaign’ funds being improperly used for personal benefit,” Brendan Fischer, deputy executive director of investigative watchdog Documented, wrote in a social media post flagging the expenditure.
Walker was a Republican Senate candidate for Georgia in the 2022 runoff election that sent Sen. Raphael Warnock to Congress for a full term. Walker’s campaign was dogged by scandals, including allegations that he secretly paid women to have abortions. Walker has also been mired in campaign-cash-related controversy in the past: for the campaign arm wiring $595,000 to a defunct car wash owned by a donor, and for Walker allegedly soliciting a substantial donation for his campaign and then directing over $535,000 of it to his personal company, which resulted in calls for a federal probe.
Last year, when Georgia Republicans were in need of cash, some in the party were reportedly furious that Walker was continuing to sit on unused campaign funds, as Politico reported in the run-up to the election. The PAC reported more than $4.8 million in cash on hand in its midyear filings.
Salvatore Purpura, the treasurer for Bo 34 listed in the campaign finance filings, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. (Federal filings indicate Purpura has been paid more than $8,600 by Bo 34 for “compliance consulting.”) The Walker campaign also did not immediately respond to a request for comment.