A registered foreign agent for Cuba is running for Congress in Rhode Island despite attesting that he lives in both the Ocean State and Florida, documents reviewed by the Washington Examiner show.

GOP House candidate Victor Mellor wrote Englewood, Florida, as his residence in a June filing with the Department of Justice and a Warwick, Rhode Island, address as his “business address” — despite campaigning for Rhode Island’s 2nd Congressional District. He also obtained a July marriage license in Florida that seemingly contradicted the DOJ filing by labeling Warwick as his “residence.” The city’s public property records further complicate the picture, listing a different couple as owners of the property at the Warwick address.

The records raise questions about Mellor’s Rhode Island roots as he competes with GOP-endorsed primary opponent Stephen Skoly for incumbent Rep. Seth Magaziner’s (D-RI) seat. Mellor has the support of former Donald Trump advisers Rudy Giuliani and Michael Flynn. He also counts Trump allies Roger Stone and Joseph Flynn, Michael Flynn’s brother, as campaign staffers.

Mellor’s campaign did not respond to the Washington Examiner’s request for comment. A campaign spokesperson told the Providence Journal that the Florida “address discrepancy” in the DOJ filing “stems from a clerical error made by the law firm Vic has used in the past.” Mellor is a Rhode Island native who “continues to reside in Warwick,” the spokesperson told the paper.

However, Mellor and his female partner’s names do not appear in search results in Warwick’s property database. Instead, Sarasota County, Florida’s property appraiser lists the couple as owners of a parcel at the same Englewood address Mellor reported as his residence to the DOJ. Sarasota County last updated the listing on Sunday.

Mellor’s Federal Election Commission filings further establish ties beyond Rhode Island. His campaign reported an address in Venice in November, Tampa in February, and Wisconsin in May.

‘Partnership with the next generation of Cubans’

The candidate’s years of running businesses in Florida made him a close neighbor to Cuba, setting the stage for his partnership with the communist state. Trump is increasingly pressuring the regime via sanctions, condemning its history of espionage and subversion against the United States, and threatening to topple it.

Mellor agreed to work with Cuba on media-related projects aimed at “improving Cuban-American relations,” his foreign agent disclosures show. The work specifically supports Cuba’s General Directorate of Personal Security, minister of visas, and minister of America relations.

The MAGA candidate engages directly with the grandson of former Cuban dictator Raul Castro, the filings show. The elder Castro is wanted for arrest by Trump’s DOJ over a deadly 1996 attack on U.S. aircraft, while his grandson is a negotiator with the Trump administration, multiple news outlets reported.

Cuba’s projects with Mellor include a “Partner With Cuba” website that is not yet publicly accessible. His filings also describe plans for a social media campaign suggesting that life under Cuban communism is not as dire as critics say.

“There are factions of Cuban-Americans — concentrated in South Florida, with deep institutional reach into the U.S. Congress, the media, and the donor class — who have spent decades shaping the dominant American narrative about Cuba,” says a Partner With Cuba document Mellor disclosed to the DOJ. “Blackouts. Shortages. Sanctions. Collapse. Regime cruelty. Imminent failure. Their narrative is powerful, well-funded, and consistently reinforced in U.S. press coverage.”

“We do not attack their narrative. We do not argue with their facts,” the document continues. “We speak on different terrain — metaphor — and show what their narrative cannot see: the life that is growing inside the country they have been describing as dying.”

Another Partner With Cuba document in Mellor’s disclosures proposes hypothetical responses to American politicians’ remarks criticizing the regime.

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“You are right that fuel is running out, and that Cuban families are suffering tonight,” a proposed social media post says. “One honest question, offered with respect: would partnership with the next generation of Cubans get us to that dignity faster than another round of pressure?”

“There is a Cuban grandmother in Holguin tonight who has not eaten well today. She does not need more pressure on her
country,” another suggested post says.