Presler’s super PAC paid two convicted felons to run GOTV in Pennsylvania
Two of the regional coordinators running get-out-the-vote work for Scott Presler's super PAC in Pennsylvania are convicted felons. The Bulwark published the receipts Friday.
Brandon Matlack runs the Lehigh Valley for Early Vote Action, the PAC Presler started in 2023, and FEC filings show it has paid him $71,992 across 47 payments since October 2024, every one logged as "GOTV consulting." The Bulwark matched his address and date of birth to Lehigh County court records for a Bethlehem man who pleaded guilty to felony strangulation in 2022 and was still on probation when the payments started. Five years before that he'd been accused of shooting a friend with an AK-47-style rifle. He pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment and possession of an instrument of a crime. In 2016, state police said, he zip-tied his father and demanded $4,000.
Julie DeVuono has taken $35,774 from the same PAC since March 2025. She's the Amityville, New York nurse practitioner who pleaded guilty in 2023 to forging COVID-19 vaccination cards, laundering the money and writing false opioid prescriptions, a scheme prosecutors put at $1.5 million. She forfeited more than $1.2 million and got probation. Her X bio reads "Justified Felon."
Presler spent most of October accusing Janelle Stelson, the Democrat running against Rep. Scott Perry, of employing a canvasser arrested for indecent exposure. Homeland Security repeated it in a press release. Stelson says the man was neither an employee nor a volunteer. Her campaign's filings don't list him, and Axios found no record of him in the volunteer database.
He was making that accusation with this payroll on the books.
Sen. John Cornyn called Presler a "grifter" earlier this year, after Presler backed Ken Paxton in the Texas primary. Presler, Early Vote Action, Matlack and DeVuono didn't answer The Bulwark's questions.
Sources: The Bulwark, Oct. 16, 2026; FEC, Early Vote Action PAC disbursements; Suffolk County District Attorney; Lehigh Valley Live.
Photo: New York State Young Republicans / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0
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