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Vivek Ramaswamy slammed for $700K private jet scheme: 'Using donor funds to pay himself'

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Ohio Republican gubernatorial candidate Vivek Ramaswamy spent hundreds of thousands of dollars of campaign funds leasing a private jet from a company he owns, records show. Of nearly $690,000 that his campaign spent on private jets, nearly $560,000 of that went to V Leasing LLC — a company whose listed address is a house Ramaswamy owns — according to the Ohio Capital Journal . Ramaswamy has loaned his campaign more than $25 million, the report said. In May, Ramaswamy told a Youngstown news station he preferred to drive, the Journal noted. "I love long drives," he said. "You think about the time we spend in Trumbull County, and you think about the time we even spend just going for a nice jog. You think about Cuyahoga National Park, not far from where we are. I'm a nature guy." Campaign finance records reviewed by the Ohio Capital Journal show his campaign also paid nearly $130,000 to TVPX Aircraft Solutions in Salt Lake City. Ramaswamy's campaign did not respond to questions the Ohio Ca