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The NY Times - George Santos Is Charged by Federal Prosecutors in New York
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Representative George Santos, the New York Republican who fell under numerous investigations over his personal and campaign finances after his biography was found to be a web of lies and exaggerations, has been charged by federal prosecutors in Brooklyn ...
The specific charges against Mr. Santos, who last month announced he would run for re-election in his district in Long Island and part of Queens, are not yet clear. CNN reported that Mr. Santos could appear as soon as Wednesday in federal court.
Mr. Santos has been subject to immense scrutiny in the wake of reporting published by The New York Times last year that found he had lied about his biography, education and work history to voters and raised questions about his personal wealth and campaign finances.
Subsequent reporting uncovered evidence of possible misconduct, including irregularities in an unregistered fund that purported to be raising huge amounts for Mr. Santos and hundreds of thousands of dollars in unexplained expenses.
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The NY Times - George Santos’s Spectacularly Dumb Alleged Scheme
May 10, 2023
The scheme Mr. Santos is charged with is so flagrant, so spectacularly dumb in both conception and execution, that Justice clearly decided it had a no-brainer of a case.
If Mr. Santos had structured an improper political money stream the way the grown-ups do every day, he might have gotten away with it. ...
But Mr. Santos didn’t structure his fraud the usual way, according to the indictment.
Instead, the government said, he set up a regular business and falsely told donors that it was a 501(c)(4). [a tax-exempt “social welfare organization”]
That company, which The New York Times says appears to be RedStone Strategies, had nothing to do with supporting Mr. Santos’s campaign but everything to do with supporting his bank account.
He “converted most of those funds to his own personal benefit,” the indictment says, and didn’t even go through the usual procedural sham of registering the social welfare group with the I.R.S.
Nor did he use his so-called leadership PAC to raise money for personal expenses, which more sophisticated politicians do all the time to buy expensive clothes, luxury vacations and country club memberships.
Instead of exploiting existing political loopholes, he just took the cash with all the finesse of a Long Island pump-and-dump operation, leaving a pathetically obvious paper trail for federal investigators to follow. ...
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