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Eric Swalwell paid illegal Brazilian live-in nanny under the table with campaign funds, complaint alleges
NY Post ^ | 4/11/26 | Gabrielle Fahmy

Posted on 04/11/2026 3:05:18 PM PDT by Libloather

Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell has been accused of violating immigration and employment law to keep his illegal live-in Brazilian nanny in the country, according to a pair of recently filed complaints.

When his South American babysitter’s temporary work authorization was about to expire in 2022, he and wife Brittany Swalwell lied to the feds to keep Amanda Barbosa working for them, a new complaint filed Tuesday with the Department of Labor claimed.

Another complaint, filed to the Department of Homeland security in February and previously unreported, accuses Swalwell of paying the nanny under the table with campaign funds for a period of two years when she didn’t hold valid work authorization.

“Barbosa appears in numerous social media photos with the Swalwell family throughout 2023 and 2024, indicating continued close association and ongoing childcare responsibilities despite the absence of known lawful work authorization,” the complaint to DHS, dated Feb. 16, alleged.

The embattled California gubernatorial hopeful first hired Barbosa, 33, in the fall of 2021 to look after his three children.

Barbosa had come to the US from Rio de Janeiro in January 2021 on an au pair visa. She was paid $3,914 in campaign funds that year, according to an analysis of Federal Election Commission data by The Post.

She continued working for the Golden State politician as a live-in nanny the next year, receiving $46,930 in campaign funds in 2022, FEC records show.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; History; Local News
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To: Lazamataz

41 posted on 04/12/2026 12:54:06 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Republican Wildcat

Yup!


42 posted on 04/12/2026 2:59:43 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The quickest and easiest way to untold riches is to be elected to national office.)
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Liberal Media Wants You To Know: They Knew Eric
Swalwell Was A Sex Pest, And Didn’t Report A Thing
The Daily Wire ^ | April 12, 2026 | Virginia Kruta
FR Posted on 4/12/2026, 1:28:06 PM by Twotone

A wave of sexual assault accusations against Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) hit on Friday. In the time since, a number in the media and political spheres have claimed that they knew all along that the California congressman was at best, a pest — and at worst, involved in behavior that might be criminal — but never went public with that information.

Local reporter Steven Tavares, author of the East Bay Insider, said that he had been covering Swalwell for more than a decade — beginning when he was just a member of the Dublin City Council — and that he and others had been well aware of Swalwell’s proclivities for years.

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43 posted on 04/12/2026 3:28:09 PM PDT by Liz (Jonathan Swift: Govrnment without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery .)
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To: PGalt

Hard to imagine. Very hard.

But even if a guy was going to pay his wife a salary to be a wife and mother wouldn’t you make those payments in cash? And pay the nanny on the books so it doesn’t look crooked.

It’s weird and bassackwards dumb.


44 posted on 04/12/2026 7:28:11 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party - like the love child of La Cosa Nostra and Al Qaeda )
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