George Santos, Fraudster

[happyhoix]

Newly elected NY congressman lied about EVERYTHING.

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/new-york-s-alleged-gop-fraudster-congressman-reportedly-a-registered-florida-resident/ar-AA15xdUY?cvid=ac9116fbc2014d91882b22ed21c8fd39

Didn’t work where he said he worked. Didn’t go to the schools he claimed he attended. Didn’t have four coworkers who died at the Pulse nightclub. May actually be a Florida resident. Raised money for a fake charity.

Plus - not even Jewish. His grandparents did not flee Nazi Germany for South America.

First - didn’t he realize the kind of scrutiny politicians go through from the press and second, can the voters of NY fire this lying liar, or will a recall election be required if he doesn’t have the good grace to quit?

[billisonboard]

Any attempt by a state to recall a member of Congress is prohibited by the Federal Constitution. A vacancy in the office of U.S. senator or representative can be created only by the incumbent's death or resignation, the expiration of his term, or some direct action of the body (the Senate or the House of Representatives) which is empowered to expel members (Burton v. U.S. 202 US 344, at 369). link

[billisonboard]

didn’t he realize the kind of scrutiny politicians go through from the press

He ran for Congress in 2020 and lost. Ran in 2022 and won. Now they scrutinize?

[happyhoix]

Dec 21, 2022 20:44:05 GMT -5 billisonboard said:

didn’t he realize the kind of scrutiny politicians go through from the press

He ran for Congress in 2020 and lost. Ran in 2022 and won. Now they scrutinize?

The media must have been lazy on this - but I really don’t know how he got through a campaign without his opponent sniffing at least some of this out. Usually they do a much better job sniffing out the dirt. 

[djAdvocate]

the breadth of the lying appears to be breathtaking, in this instance.

[Tennesseer]

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New York's alleged GOP fraudster congressman reportedly a registered Florida resident

George Santos, the Republican congressman-elect for a House seat based in Long Island and Queens, New York, was seemingly exposed as a fraudster by The New York Times on Monday, but even more questions are now arising after he appears to have filed paperwork on Tuesday stating his place of residence is in Florida.

That’s according to two investigative articles from Talking Points Memo.

On Tuesday evening TPM reported that in May of 2021 Santos registered his company, Devolder Organization LLC, which has no website and it’s unclear what the operation actually does, in Florida.

“On his congressional disclosure form he reported $750,000 in income from the company and between $1 million and $5 million in dividends,” TPM adds. “This compares with $55,000 in income he reported two years earlier from a different employer when he ran for the same seat in 2020. But the company was dissolved in September 2022, the same month as the disclosure form was filed, because the company never filed an annual report.”

One day after The New York Times bombshell that appears to show Santos’ claims about where he worked, lived, and went to college are false, the incoming GOP lawmaker “filed documents to have his company reinstated” in Florida.

Just before midnight, the sleuths at TPM added yet another bombshell to the Santos story.

Rest of article here: New York's alleged GOP fraudster congressman reportedly a registered Florida resident

[djAdvocate]

mole

[haapai]

He seems to have lied about pretty much everything. 

Has anyone verified that he was actually born in Queens? 

[djAdvocate]

Dec 22, 2022 14:37:57 GMT -5 haapai said:

He seems to have lied about pretty much everything. 

Has anyone verified that he was actually born in Queens? 

i am voting for Russian Asset.

[haapai]

Dec 22, 2022 14:44:43 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Dec 22, 2022 14:37:57 GMT -5 haapai said:

He seems to have lied about pretty much everything. 

Has anyone verified that he was actually born in Queens? 

i am voting for Russian Asset.

He does appear to have that stink of identity theft about him. 

[djAdvocate]

the man is a cypher. 

i have been reading about this all day.  i am not sure that any aspect of him is real.

[happyhoix]

Dec 22, 2022 15:29:38 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

the man is a cypher. 

i have been reading about this all day.  i am not sure that any aspect of him is real.

What was that movie about the con man who kept passing himself off as a pilot or surgeon or whatever? Catch me if you can?

That was based on a real life criminal. Maybe this guy has whatever MH issue that guy had.

[Tennesseer]

Dec 22, 2022 16:10:40 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

Dec 22, 2022 15:29:38 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

the man is a cypher. 

i have been reading about this all day.  i am not sure that any aspect of him is real.

What was that movie about the con man who kept passing himself off as a pilot or surgeon or whatever? Catch me if you can?

That was based on a real life criminal. Maybe this guy has whatever MH issue that guy had.

The movie was Catch Me If You Can. The real life criminal was Frank Abagnale.

[billisonboard]

Rep.-elect George Santos admits to lying about resume, says he’s ‘not a criminal’

“I’m not going to make excuses for this, but a lot of people overstate in their resumes, or twist a little bit. … I’m not saying I’m not guilty of that,” he said.
...

Santos also admitted that he never worked directly for the financial firms Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, as he has previously suggested, but claimed that he did do work for them through his company, ..."
...

“I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume,” 

And my favorite:

“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told the Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”

[djAdvocate]

jesus.  what a horrendous liar.

[tbop77]

He will make the perfect candidate for Trump's VP choice!  

[happyhoix]

On the TV tube this am, a reporter was saying that this guy donated 700,000 to self fund his campaign. However, his financial statements say that as of 2020 he was earning about 55K a year - which I think isn’t a lot in New York HCOL area. He claims he was ‘really lucky’ and eared the 700,000 recently, from his very happy clients (not sure what business he claims to be running, other than the fake animal charity).

Seems like a lot of money to generate in a short period of time - unless someone gave it to him under the table.

That may be something the ethnics committee may want to look at - except that this guy has already thrown his support to McCarthy, who needs every single vote he can get to cling to power, so it’s unlikely he’ll be doing anything to investigate this.

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[djAdvocate]

Dec 27, 2022 10:43:33 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

On the TV tube this am, a reporter was saying that this guy donated 700,000 to self fund his campaign. However, his financial statements say that as of 2020 he was earning about 55K a year - which I think isn’t a lot in New York HCOL area. He claims he was ‘really lucky’ and eared the 700,000 recently, from his very happy clients (not sure what business he claims to be running, other than the fake animal charity).

Seems like a lot of money to generate in a short period of time - unless someone gave it to him under the table.

That may be something the ethnics committee may want to look at - except that this guy has already thrown his support to McCarthy, who needs every single vote he can get to cling to power, so it’s unlikely he’ll be doing anything to investigate this.

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i wrote about this on the Midterm 2022 thread.
he claimed that the income came through his corporation (begins with a D), but if you look that corporation up, it is based in Florida, and, as of September, filed as "inactive".

i think his income is extremely suspicious.

[billisonboard]

Dec 27, 2022 10:43:33 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

On the TV tube this am, a reporter was saying that this guy donated 700,000 to self fund his campaign. However, his financial statements say that as of 2020 he was earning about 55K a year - which I think isn’t a lot in New York HCOL area. He claims he was ‘really lucky’ and eared the 700,000 recently, from his very happy clients (not sure what business he claims to be running, other than the fake animal charity).

Seems like a lot of money to generate in a short period of time - unless someone gave it to him under the table.

That may be something the ethnics committee may want to look at - except that this guy has already thrown his support to McCarthy, who needs every single vote he can get to cling to power, so it’s unlikely he’ll be doing anything to investigate this.

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The vote for Speaker will be one of the first things done in January. No investigation would happen immediately. Easy for McCarthy to sidestep the issue and then mid-January the chairman of the Ethics Committee cite increasing pressure to open one up.

[swamp]

Jew-ish.  

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

Dec 27, 2022 10:58:49 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Dec 27, 2022 10:43:33 GMT -5 happyhoix said:

On the TV tube this am, a reporter was saying that this guy donated 700,000 to self fund his campaign. However, his financial statements say that as of 2020 he was earning about 55K a year - which I think isn’t a lot in New York HCOL area. He claims he was ‘really lucky’ and eared the 700,000 recently, from his very happy clients (not sure what business he claims to be running, other than the fake animal charity).

Seems like a lot of money to generate in a short period of time - unless someone gave it to him under the table.

That may be something the ethnics committee may want to look at - except that this guy has already thrown his support to McCarthy, who needs every single vote he can get to cling to power, so it’s unlikely he’ll be doing anything to investigate this.

‘

i wrote about this on the Midterm 2022 thread.
he claimed that the income came through his corporation (begins with a D), but if you look that corporation up, it is based in Florida, and, as of September, filed as "inactive".

i think his income is extremely suspicious.

Someone buying congress?

Oh, wait, that is okay because everybody does it.

[djAdvocate]

Dec 27, 2022 14:19:44 GMT -5 Cheesy FL-Vol said:

Dec 27, 2022 10:58:49 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

i wrote about this on the Midterm 2022 thread.
he claimed that the income came through his corporation (begins with a D), but if you look that corporation up, it is based in Florida, and, as of September, filed as "inactive".

i think his income is extremely suspicious.

Someone buying congress?

Oh, wait, that is okay because everybody does it.

Manchurian Candidate

[Tennesseer]

Eight outstanding questions surrounding George Santos

Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) is starting to emerge from days of silence following explosive reports in The New York Times and elsewhere detailing key elements of his background he apparently misrepresented.

In various interviews, Santos has admitted to “embellishing” his resume.

He told the New York Post that he “didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning” and that it was “poor choice of words” to previously say he worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. He worked for a company called LinkBridge, he said, which did business with both other companies and helped make “capital introductions” through “limited partnerships.”

But questions remain about the influx of personal wealth that he used to fund his campaign, an allegation of check fraud in Brazil that he has denied, his assertion about connections to victims of the Pulse nightclub shooting, work with an animal rescue group and his heritage, among other issues.

Santos, who has given only limited statements to the press amid the fallout, did not respond to an email seeking clarification about these points.

These are some of the questions that remain:

Santos’s personal finances

Sizable personal loans from Santos to his campaign alongside a sharp jump in his reported personal wealth have led to questions about how he got his money.

Federal Election Commission filings show Santos loaned his campaign at least $580,000 during his 2022 run and nearly $80,000 during his 2020 run. In total, Santos brought in nearly $3 million from all sources during his 2022 campaign.

Financial disclosure forms filed with the House clerk in 2020 and 2022 show a sizable jump in Santos’s personal wealth during the intervening years. His 2020 financial disclosure said that he made $55,000 from LinkBridge Investors during the previous year and listed no other assets, income or liabilities.

But just two years later, Santos reported bringing in a $750,000 salary from his company, the Devolder Organization. He said in one interview that the loans to his campaign came from that salary.

He also reported holding between $1 million and $5 million in a savings account, between $100,001 and $250,000 in a checking account, and an apartment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, valued between $500,001 and $1,000,000.

Rest of article here: Eight outstanding questions surrounding George Santos

[djAdvocate]

i am surprised that none of these articles pointed out that Devolder ceased operations in JULY, according to THIS filing:


opencorporates.com/companies/us_fl/L21000206150


he then REINSTATED the corporation in December (literally 8 days ago).

so, it was inactive from 7/1-12/20/22, and yet managed to pay him $750k in salary?

i say "no way" to that.  i say that is totally impossible.  i say that he is bullshitting about the source of his income, and i will venture to guess that Devolder never made a penny, or paid a penny.

[haapai]

FWIW, members of congress don't have security clearances.  Merely attaining the office is taken as proof that you are trustworthy.  rollcall.com/2021/01/12/when-it-comes-to-security-clearances-rules-for-others-dont-apply-to-congress/

I wonder what committees his own party will assign him to. 

[happyhoix]

Dec 28, 2022 13:31:53 GMT -5 haapai said:

FWIW, members of congress don't have security clearances.  Merely attaining the office is taken as proof that you are trustworthy.  rollcall.com/2021/01/12/when-it-comes-to-security-clearances-rules-for-others-dont-apply-to-congress/

I wonder what committees his own party will assign him to. 

I only saw one GOP congressperson who said anything about him. The rest of them are pretending not to notice the dumpster fire. 

So I’m guessing they stick him on some plum committee. After all, most of them still think Trump is superlative, despite all his ethical bullshit. 

[happyhoix]

Dec 28, 2022 12:32:32 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

i am surprised that none of these articles pointed out that Devolder ceased operations in JULY, according to THIS filing:


opencorporates.com/companies/us_fl/L21000206150


he then REINSTATED the corporation in December (literally 8 days ago).

so, it was inactive from 7/1-12/20/22, and yet managed to pay him $750k in salary?

i say "no way" to that.  i say that is totally impossible.  i say that he is bullshitting about the source of his income, and i will venture to guess that Devolder never made a penny, or paid a penny.

He apparently ran some fundraisers for animal charities, but never turned the money over to them. He also had some animal charity he started himself, but who knows how much money he raised or where it went. 

Seems like a huge amount to raise from charity donations, though. My second and third guesses would be embezzlement or dark money. Hopefully someone in the Ethics committee takes the time to track it down. 

[pulmonarymd]

Republicans are in charge of the house. It will be a cold day in hell before there is an ethics investigation of any republican

[billisonboard]

Dec 28, 2022 14:21:41 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

Republicans are in charge of the house. It will be a cold day in hell before there is an ethics investigation of any republican

Rather they will be next week and I think this will prove to be too egregious for there not to be an investigation eventually. Time will tell.

[haapai]

Dec 28, 2022 14:21:41 GMT -5 pulmonarymd said:

Republicans are in charge of the house. It will be a cold day in hell before there is an ethics investigation of any republican

I prefer to believe that they might make an exception to that rule if one of their own stinks so much of being a foreign agent.  Maybe I am too optimistic.  Maybe they will get lucky and this guy will get arrested for a crime committed in the US before they have to make that choice.  Santos appears to be unusually bad at filling out paperwork.