Scandal-plagued George Santos is charged with wire fraud, money laundering, lying on federal disclosure forms, and fraudulently collecting unemployment benefits while earning a $120,000 salary.
headlined “We Tried to Call the Top Donors to George Santos’ 2020 Campaign. Many Don’t Seem to Exist.”Just lay out both what happened in court yesterday — you were there on Long Island — and then what you have found in your investigations of this lying Long Island congressmember.So, yes, I was in the courtroom yesterday. Santos was arraigned. He had U.S. marshals behind him. He pleaded not guilty to all the counts with his lawyer Joe Murray there. And then there was $500,000 bond posted.
But what we found earlier in the year was that, I mean, like so much of his story, so many of the things he’s done are blatantly, you know, not what normal candidates do. Many of his donors don’t seem to exist. And what’s amazing about this indictment is they’ve managed — the federal prosecutors have a very strong 13-count indictment, but it still doesn’t even address many of the biggest mysteries about him.
So, my understand is it’s an unsecured bond. He also has three people, suretors, who are, you know, endorsing it. So he’s out now. But, yes, he’s basically very limited. He can only go between New York and D.C. And he’s voluntarily agreed to those conditions for now.So, I want to ask you about what he means in the House, that Kevin McCarthy still has his arms basically wrapped around him. He needs him.
But the key part of it here is that she’s the person, other than Santos, who almost certainly knows the most about what was going on with his campaign finance practices. For example, she’s the one who signed off on a large series of $199.99 expenses, which is one cent below the federal threshold needed to keep receipts. So, she’s the person signing off on that. She also had her 19- and 22-year-old children give legal maximum donations of $5,800 to Santos. Many of her relatives did the same.
So, you know, there’s a ton of suspicious things that she is involved in, and it’s possible that she’s cooperating, is going to come to a plea deal and then give even — which will lead to even more indictments for Santos, or, if she doesn’t, she may be facing an indictment of her own.
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