House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes spent thousands of dollars of political donations on basketball tickets, lavish dinners and swanky hotels, but his team says the over-the-top spending was perfectly legal fundraising expenses.

According to Federal Election Commission filings, published by the Fresno Bee, the Republican politician dropped around $65,000 over the last year on a number of expenditures. He used funds from New PAC, his leadership political action committee, the outlet reports.

Among the many things Nunes paid for with the political donations were Boston Celtics tickets totaling nearly $15,000.

The filings show that New PAC spent $14,638 at TD Gardens, where the Celtics play, three different times between February and May 2017.

Devin Nunes spent thousands of dollars of political donations on dinners, hotels, limo rides and basketball games

According to a report, he spent nearly $15,000 on Boston Celtics tickets and another $3,593 on a hotel in Boston the same day the Celtics played in the playoffs

On May 8, New PAC paid $3,593 at the Omni Parker House Hotel in Boston the same day the Celtics played the Washington Wizards in a playoff game.

Nunes, 44, also spent a small fortune at upscale restaurants in DC and Las Vegas.

According to the filings, on March 9 the married politician spent over $7,000 at seven different Vegas eateries. Among them was the The Dorsey, a cocktail bar inside the Venetian. He reported spent $2,365 at the restaurant.

The Prime Rib, an upscale steak restaurant in DC, popped up several times in the FEC filings, the Fresno Bee reports. Since July 2017 Nunes' New PAC spent more than $10,000 at the restaurant.

Last month, he reportedly used the donations to pay $5,075 to Gold Coast Limousine Service and $4,408 at the Sea Venture hotel in Pismo Beach, California.

Nunes' Chief of Staff said the expenditures were fundraising expenses and are not illegal

The filings, according to the Fresno Bee, also show that between April and June of this year he spent just under $20,000 at the Capitol Hill Club, a Republican invite-only social club in DC. On June 4 he spent $13,773 alone at the club.

Anthony Ratekin, Nunes' Chief of Staff, told ABC News that the Fresno Bee's report of the FEC filings was a 'baseless attack'.

'(The report) insinuates wrongdoing while actually showing that Rep. Nunes has broken no rules and properly reported all expenses for his fundraising events, much or whose income he gives to help elect other Republicans,' Ratekin said.

Nunes' lavish spending of New PAC funds does not appear to break any federal laws. Leadership PACS, which are separated from a politician's own campaign fund, is loosely regulated by the Senate ethics committee, which states that lawmaker's cannot use campaign funds for 'personal use'.

According to FEC filings, Nunes spent $4,408 at the Sea Venture hotel (pictured) in Pismo Beach, California.

Politicians are rarely punished for using funds from leadership PACS and writing them off as fundraising expenditures, ABC reports.

Earlier this week, Nunes used money from his Devin Nunes Campaign Committee to release a video ad accusing the Fresno Bee of publishing 'fake news' about him. In the two-minute ad Nunes called the Bee's reporters 'creeping correspondents' and said they have a 'strange crusade' against him.

'The Fresno Bee has worked closely with radical left-wing groups to promote numerous fake news stories about me,' he said. 'The Bee's reporting is a textbook example of fake news.'

The outlet's editor Joe Kieta said in a statement that they are sticking by its reporting.

'Just because Nunes doesn't want the story told does not make it 'false",' the statement read. 'For all his complaints about "fake news," Rep. Nunes has failed to identify a single factual error in our work — while making numerous false statements himself.'