George Santos charged with defrauding campaign donors

Stacyhs said:
Why do you think the right-wing is so obsessed with Hunter Biden's laptop? It's all they've got.
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Just musing...

Would be hilarious if "Hunter Biden's laptop" contained only evidence of:
  • Gaetz's frolics with under-age girls
  • Juicy pics of Boebert "admiring" those dick-pics
  • All the goss on EmptyG's affairs with pool-boys while married...with pics
  • Details of all Tucker Carlson's under-the-table dealings with the Russians
  • All the inside info on Trump's illegal dealings with foreign powers and companies.

Published on free-to-air Twitter. And Facebook. And Mastadon. And Readit. And Tik Tok for good measure, in interpretive dance.
 
Stacyhs said:
Why do you think the right-wing is so obsessed with Hunter Biden's laptop? It's all they've got.
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"Hunter Biden's Laptop" is merely the current GOP's "Benghazi". The Dems should do exactly what the GOP did over subpoenas regarding The Fat Orange Turd... extend the middle finger.

I know how I would approaching things if I were in their place, if asked or subpoenaed to testify before the Vichy GOP's Kangaroo Court

"I agree to testify under the following conditions...

1. When asked a question, I will be allowed to answer it, in full and without interruptions from any members.

2. No grandstanding for interviews with the talking heads on Fox News.

3. If either of the above two conditions are not adhered to, I will get up and walk out."

I would remind them of these conditions in my opening statement.
 
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follow the money

Vox reported, "But most importantly, we don’t know where Santos’s money comes from. The Representative-elect loaned his own campaign $700,000 during the 2022 cycle and claimed an income of $750,000. He also listed millions of dollars in assets including an apartment in Rio De Janeiro worth up to $1 million and a seven-figure savings account. It’s a major shift in fortune for someone who was evicted twice, in 2015 and 2017, for failing to pay rent and had been taken to court for not paying debts. Even in 2020, he reported income in only one category — compensation in excess of $5,000 paid by one source — with no other assets." hmm...
 
Chris_Halkides said:
Vox reported, "But most importantly, we don’t know where Santos’s money comes from. The Representative-elect loaned his own campaign $700,000 during the 2022 cycle and claimed an income of $750,000. He also listed millions of dollars in assets including an apartment in Rio De Janeiro worth up to $1 million and a seven-figure savings account. It’s a major shift in fortune for someone who was evicted twice, in 2015 and 2017, for failing to pay rent and had been taken to court for not paying debts. Even in 2020, he reported income in only one category — compensation in excess of $5,000 paid by one source — with no other assets." hmm...
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Chris_Halkides said:
Vox reported, "But most importantly, we don’t know where Santos’s money comes from. The Representative-elect loaned his own campaign $700,000 during the 2022 cycle and claimed an income of $750,000. He also listed millions of dollars in assets including an apartment in Rio De Janeiro worth up to $1 million and a seven-figure savings account. It’s a major shift in fortune for someone who was evicted twice, in 2015 and 2017, for failing to pay rent and had been taken to court for not paying debts. Even in 2020, he reported income in only one category — compensation in excess of $5,000 paid by one source — with no other assets." hmm...
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Has he been near Palm Beach, FL recently?
 
Ross Dress for Less

"Santos’s financial situation becomes murkier upon closer examination of his company. The incoming congressman created the Devolder Organization in May 2021, just weeks after his prior employer, Harbor City Capitol, was accused of running a Ponzi scheme by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Santos was not implicated in and has denied any knowledge of the scheme...The Devolder Organization was dissolved in September of this year for failing to file an annual report. However, after the Times’s Dec. 19 report about Santos, the company was reinstated on Dec. 20, according to the Florida Department of State." The Hill. I did a quick Google search for the Devolder organization, and its address is on Merritt Island, FL, not far from a Ross Dress for Less discount clothing store (maybe they will take his checks). Merritt Island is near Cape Canaveral.

"The day after the Times story appeared, Santos took a curious step: He revived that mystery firm that he had claimed as the source of millions of dollars of income, and he listed as its address a Florida property associated with a former top official of the company that allegedly mounted that Ponzi scheme. Devolder’s resurrection was first reported by Talking Points Memo. The story of this firm is a key component of the Santos scandal." Mother Jones
 
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Mike! said:
"They all think I'm crazy, but I know better. It is not I who are crazy. It is I who am *mad*! Can't you hear them? Didn't you see the crowd?" - Ren Hoek
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I quoted a Suicidal Tendency song. I used the Ren quote recently so had to look elsewhere for new material ;)
 
Has it been mentioned in this thread that he's being investigated by a DA (R) in New York?

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/29/1145...-is-being-investigated-for-lying-about-his-pa
INSKEEP: What does the prosecutor say about this?

MANN: Well, the Office of Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly - this is a Republican - she released a statement describing Santos' lies as nothing short of stunning. Donnelly has promised to investigate and says - and I'm quoting here - "if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it."

INSKEEP: However, if lying, by itself, was a crime, an awful lot more people would be in jail, including maybe some members of Congress. What would the crime be here?

MANN: Yeah, well, as you point out, the Constitution does have rules about who can be sworn in, Steve, as a member of Congress. Dishonesty alone is not a deal breaker, but there are campaign laws....... [snipped]
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MANN: Now, Santos has said in interviews that he broke no laws. He says this was his own money he loaned to his campaign. But his financial history now faces close scrutiny, and Democrats are calling on the Federal Election Commission to also investigate.
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So are some Republicans. Maybe this has been mentioned here already.
 
Not all Republicans are pieces of corrupt crap. Kudos to Anne Donnelly.

Allegedly, Santos disbursed dozens of amounts of exactly $199.99, one penny below the legal requirement to report.
 
Oh for the love of...

https://news.yahoo.com/santoss-aide-reportedly-claimed-kevin-213056230.html

...Rich Republican donors fielded calls and email messages from Dan Meyer, McCarthy’s chief of staff, over the last two election cycles, asking for money to help Santos get elected. Or so they thought.

A wealthy financier who donated to the Santos campaign told CNBC that the person calling was actually Sam Miele, a staffer employed by Santos to raise money for the campaign.

It's unclear how McCarthy will react to the new developments because he has been silent on the matter since the revelations began to unspool several weeks ago.

In the lead-up to last week’s 15 votes to elect McCarthy to the speakership position, the Republican leader had gone to great lengths not to do anything that would lose him votes, including Santos's.

In need of every vote he could get, McCarthy appeared to ignore the accusations against Santos, and during the rounds of voting, Santos was seen on the House floor hobnobbing with influential far right-wing Republicans like Reps. Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz, and Marjorie Taylor Greene...
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Onr question I have is what kind of idiot did Santos' opponent have as he "opposition researchers" to not have uncovered this stuff before the election/
 
dudalb said:
Onr question I have is what kind of idiot did Santos' opponent have as he "opposition researchers" to not have uncovered this stuff before the election/
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As I posted earlier, a local paper exposed many of Santos' lies and Robert Zimmerman (the Dem candidate) tried unsuccessfully to get it into more papers and to the public.
 
dudalb said:
Onr question I have is what kind of idiot did Santos' opponent have as he "opposition researchers" to not have uncovered this stuff before the election/
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Stacyhs said:
As I posted earlier, a local paper exposed many of Santos' lies and Robert Zimmerman (the Dem candidate) tried unsuccessfully to get it into more papers and to the public.
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So the question might be better asked: Who covered it up?
 
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