Victoria Spartz Corruption & Ethics Indiana

Victoria Spartz's Campaign Paid Her Husband $30,000 in 'Rent' for a Westfield House — and Pays the Property Taxes Too

FEC filings show Spartz's campaign paid Jason Spartz $30,000 in November 2025 for 'annual rent' and has since paid nearly $6,000 in Hamilton County property taxes. Spartz says the $30,000 covered six years of back rent — but her campaign had reported 34 of those months as rent she donated for free.

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Victoria Spartz's campaign runs out of a three-bedroom house in Westfield. For years, the campaign told federal regulators it got that space for free. Then it started paying — her husband.

On November 20, 2025, Spartz's campaign committee paid Jason Spartz $30,000, listed on its Federal Election Commission report as "annual rent." Ten days earlier it had paid the Hamilton County treasurer $2,791.01 in property taxes. In April 2026 it paid another $3,115.08.

That's campaign money flowing to the congresswoman's own household.

The arrangement surfaced in a September 24 IndyStar story on the attacks flying in Indiana's 5th District race, where Democratic state Sen. J.D. Ford has accused Spartz of using campaign funds to pay for rent, utilities and property taxes on the Westfield property. Spartz's campaign called the attacks "completely absurd" and "blatantly false."

The filings are her own.

"Back rent" for years she said were free

Spartz told IndyStar the $30,000 covered six years of back rent for the campaign's use of the property, according to a summary of the story by LarryInFishers.

But her campaign had already reported what those years cost it. From April 2020 through February 2023, the committee listed the space month after month — 34 entries — as an in-kind contribution from Spartz herself — rent she was donating, valued at $750 a month. That's 34 months, $25,500 worth of rent the campaign told the FEC it didn't pay because she gave it away.

Six years of back rent paid in 2025 reaches back to 2019 or 2020 — across the same months the campaign had already reported as donated. IndyStar reported the property's treatment changed from a $750-a-month in-kind contribution to a $2,500-a-month rental payment. Spartz's campaign attributed the change to a compliance review that found the old $750 valuation was below market rate.

A watchdog calls it unusual

Brendan Fischer, a director at the nonpartisan Campaign Legal Center, told IndyStar it was unusual for a campaign to use a house as its headquarters, and raised concerns about the campaign paying property taxes on top of rent.

That second part matters. In an ordinary rental, the owner pays the property taxes out of the rent. Here the campaign pays rent to her husband and pays the county tax bill on the house.

It isn't the only money the campaign has sent Jason Spartz. The committee paid him $15,088.40 in December 2024 for "sign installation & removal."

Not the first question about how she runs things

Spartz's office has faced questions before. A former staffer turned down $60,000 from her office because the settlement came with a gag order, and her staff turnover was the worst of her career.

IndyStar also looked at Ford's claim that Spartz has gotten rich trading stocks. A 2024 disclosure showed her husband sold Simon Property Group stock worth between $1 million and $5 million; the disclosure range doesn't prove it was $5 million, and Spartz says the real figure was much lower.

What isn't in dispute is what her own campaign reports say.

What the filings show

Victoria Spartz's campaign paid her husband $30,000 in "annual rent" in November 2025 and has paid nearly $6,000 in property taxes on the Westfield house it uses. Spartz says the $30,000 was six years of back rent — but her campaign had reported 34 of those months, April 2020 to February 2023, as $25,500 in rent she donated for free.