New reporting is exposing DC insider Michael Whatley for spending more than a hundred thousand dollars to travel on a private jet linked to a convicted felon – despite Whatley’s attempts to hide it with a fake LLC.
Whatley has a long pattern of protecting convicted felons – from appointing child predator Harvey West, to being complicit in covering up the Epstein files.
Whatley should explain to North Carolinians why he was traveling on a $2 million private jet linked to a convicted felon.
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Judd Legum | August 24, 2026
- A more accurate account of Whatley’s travel habits, however, is found amid thousands of pages of campaign finance filings. Those documents reveal that Whatley’s campaign committees have spent over $100,000 since last September on travel in a $2 million private jet. Although efforts were made to obscure the owner of the aircraft, there is a paper trail linking it to Carl Andrew “Drew” Boggs — a felon convicted of defrauding the federal government.
- In 2025, the Whatley for Senate campaign reported five payments, ranging from $8,243.10 to $21,615.24, to N5YD LLC for airfare. In 2026, two additional payments to N5YD LLC, for $8,426.28 and $9,575.87 were paid by the Whatley Buckhout Victory Fund, a joint fundraising committee benefiting Whatley and Laurie Buckhout, a Republican candidate for Congress in North Carolina. The most recent payment to N5YD LLC was paid by the Whatley Victory Committee, another Whatley fundraising vehicle. The payment for $19,701.42 on June 23 appears on page 4946 of the Whatley Victory Committee’s July Quarterly filing.
- N5YD LLC was registered anonymously in Wyoming in 2022. The first payment by Whatley’s campaign in 2025 lists N5YD LLC’s address as “1613 W Roosevelt Blvd, Monroe, NC 28110-2754.” That is the address of the Boggs Group, a major construction company which was rebranded as TrueRock in 2023.
- Subsequent payments to N5YD LLC list a P.O. Box located in Monroe. That P.O. Box is also associated with the Boggs Group and was used by Drew Boggs to make an in-kind contribution of $10,490.58 to the North Carolina Republican Party in 2021, when Whatley was the chairman. Boggs family members use the P.O. Box to register various cars and boats, according to public tax records published by Union County, North Carolina.
- In 2015, Drew Boggs was “sentenced to 30 months in prison… after pleading guilty to conspiracy to defraud the United States Department of Transportation and money laundering conspiracy.” Over a period of 10 years, Boggs and his co-defendants “engaged in a scheme by which they fraudulently obtained federally and state funded construction contracts by falsely certifying that a disadvantaged business enterprise (DBE)… would perform and be paid for [a] portion of the work on those contracts.” Over that time period, Boggs obtained 37 federal contracts worth $87.6 million.
- In total, Whatley’s campaign committees have paid $104,749.73 to N5YD LLC for air travel on the Cessna. (Notably, N5YD LLC was formally dissolved in 2023 by Wyoming for tax delinquency.) In addition to the use of the jet, Drew Boggs donated $6,612 to the Whatley Victory Committee in May and June of 2026.
- The Whatley campaign did not respond to a request for comment.
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