Posted on 06/22/2023 8:30:10 AM PDT by Miami Rebel
Identities of indicted Republican Rep George Santos' bond suretors will be unsealed Thursday, judge rules
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It will be interesting to see this happen in a few months with DeSantos. In the short term he may have created a new law to hide who his donors are, but those types of things don’t stay in the closet long.
How is this BS?
A guy without two nickels to rub together finds hundreds of thousands of dollars to fund his campaign. Plus he used a lot on personal expenses.
You are barking up the wrong tree.
What’s the right tree?
That’s how Obama got elected.
Who cares? The Dems get billions from harvested small donors who don’t have two nickels to rub together. They are used to launder the money from here and abroad. Because Santos is a Rep who votes MAGA, he must be removed. Nothing worse than sanctimonious Reps who hold their own to standards the Dems ignore.
The Dems stole the 2020 election and the 2022 midterms. They are well on their way to stealing 2024.
Look how the Dems rally around Schiff.
I think we all know why they want this information.
There is an almost endless forest of trees out there to bark-up. The Democrats in concert with the Chicoms are destroying our country.
Santos ran on MAGA and has been nothing but MAGA since he ran.
Nobody that I know of in his district (my district) voted for Santos based on some silly credential that he lied about.
Until he breaks his MAGA promises, if he ever does, one would best leave him the hell alone.
I don’t get it.
Are you saying I should be let off the hook for DUI because of the 2020 election and the 2022 midterms?
Arguably my drunk driving is less consequential, so let’s suspend all laws.
“Nobody that I know of in his district (my district) voted for Santos based on some silly credential that he lied about.
Until he breaks his MAGA promises, if he ever does, one would best leave him the hell alone.”
On that logic he should avoid prosecution for ANY felony so long as he votes appropriately.
https://thepostmillennial.com/watch-okeefes-omg-uncovers-suspicious-political-donations
WATCH: O’Keefe’s OMG uncovers suspicious political donations
On Tuesday, the O’Keefe Media Group released a video in which founder James O’Keefe traveled to Maryland to speak with residents whose names and addresses matched those of people who’d donated tens of thousands of dollars to ActBlue and other Democratic political organizations and campaigns.
The residents appeared shocked, and while some admitted to donating in some capacity, they all vehemently denied having made such massive contributions.
According to O’Keefe, Federal Election Commission data compiled by citizen journalist-led group Election Watch revealed that hundreds of senior citizens across the country had been making hundreds, and in some cases thousands, of donations per year to ActBlue and other left-leaning political causes.
O’Keefe questioned whether those involved were “victims of what appeared to be a money laundering scheme,” or whether they were actually participating in illegal activity. Data in hand, he began calling residents and showing up at their front doors to discuss the matter.
The first resident denied having donated $35,000 in over 3,000 separate installments, and when pressed he said O’Keefe should “talk to Donald Trump” and “hit him with a bat.” Before slamming the door, he said he wanted to see a scar on Trump’s head and told O’Keefe to “stop f*cking with [him].”
At the next house, the resident claimed to have donated $5 to ActBlue every once in a while, but certainly not the thousands of dollars purported to have come from her name and address. This pattern continued throughout O’Keefe’s investigation, with residents often appearing baffled when presented with the numbers.
One elderly man who records show donated over $200,000 stated that his wife possibly given a small amount to ActBlue in the past, but that he never had, and was unaware that his identity was potentially being used.
The complete list of Democratic politicians kvetching about Joe Biden’s fibs:
Really? What's the probable cause evidence to investigate Santos?
And what? Is Fox surprised that there is a two-tiered system well entrenched in New York?
It is clear the Dems are targeting Santos for political reasons and are using a weaponized justice system to nail him, just like they are doing with Trump.
Where is your outrage about the crooked Dem fundraising machine? More than half of Dem donations in 2020 came from small donors. James O’Keefe exposed what they are doing, i.e., using the names of small donors to make hundreds if not thousands of donations in their names. It is an illegal money laundering scheme.
We need Reps to be street fighters willing to get down in the mud and the blood and the beer to defeat the Dems who are not bound by the rules or sense of fairness.
Hey, but what about [fill in the blank]?
On that logic he should avoid prosecution for ANY felony so long as he votes appropriately.
Really? What's the probable cause evidence to investigate Santos?
Here ya go:
Fraudulent Political Contribution Solicitation Scheme
Beginning in September 2022, during his successful campaign for Congress, Santos operated a limited liability company (Company #1) through which he allegedly defrauded prospective political supporters. Santos enlisted a Queens-based political consultant (Person #1) to communicate with prospective donors on Santos’s behalf. Santos allegedly directed Person #1 to falsely tell donors that, among other things, their money would be used to help elect Santos to the House, including by purchasing television advertisements. In reliance on these false statements, two donors (Contributor #1 and Contributor #2) each transferred $25,000 to Company #1’s bank account, which Santos controlled.
As alleged in the indictment, shortly after the funds were received into Company #1’s bank account, the money was transferred into Santos’s personal bank accounts—in one instance laundered through two of Santos’s personal accounts. Santos allegedly then used much of that money for personal expenses. Among other things, Santos allegedly used the funds to make personal purchases (including of designer clothing), to withdraw cash, to discharge personal debts, and to transfer money to his associates.
Unemployment Insurance Fraud Scheme
Beginning in approximately February 2020, Santos was employed as a Regional Director of a Florida-based investment firm (Investment Firm #1), where he earned an annual salary of approximately $120,000. By late-March 2020, in response to the outbreak of COVID-19 in the United States, new legislation was signed into law that provided additional federal funding to assist out-of-work Americans during the pandemic.
In mid-June 2020, although he was employed and was not eligible for unemployment benefits, Santos applied for government assistance through the New York State Department of Labor, allegedly claiming falsely to have been unemployed since March 2020. From that point until April 2021—when Santos was working and receiving a salary on a near-continuous basis and during his unsuccessful run for Congress—he falsely affirmed each week that he was eligible for unemployment benefits when he was not. As a result, Santos allegedly fraudulently received more than $24,000 in unemployment insurance benefits.
False Statements to the House of Representatives
Finally, the indictment describes Santos’s alleged efforts to mislead the House of Representatives and the public about his financial condition in connection with each of his two Congressional campaigns.
Santos, like all candidates for the House, had a legal duty to file with the Clerk of the House of Representatives a Financial Disclosure Statement (House Disclosures) before each election. In each of his House Disclosures, Santos was personally required to give a full and complete accounting of his assets, income, and liabilities, among other things. He certified that his House Disclosures were true, complete, and correct.
In May 2020, in connection with his first campaign for election to the House, Santos filed two House Disclosures in which he allegedly falsely certified that, during the reporting period, his only earned income consisted of salary, commission, and bonuses totaling $55,000 from another company (Company #2), and that the only compensation exceeding $5,000 he received from a single source was an unspecified commission bonus from Company #2. In actuality, Santos allegedly overstated the income he received from Company #2 and altogether failed to disclose the salary he received from Investment Firm #1.
In September 2022, in connection with his second campaign for election to the House, Santos filed another House Disclosure, in which he allegedly overstated his income and assets. In this House Disclosure, he falsely certified that during the reporting period:
He had earned $750,000 in salary from the Devolder Organization LLC, a Florida‑based entity of which Santos was the sole beneficial owner; He had received between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 in dividends from the Devolder Organization LLC; He had a checking account with deposits of between $100,001 and $250,000; and He had a savings account with deposits of between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000.
As alleged in the indictment, these assertions were false: Santos had not received from the Devolder Organization LLC the reported amounts of salary or dividends and did not maintain checking or savings accounts with deposits in the reported amounts. Further, Santos allegedly failed to disclose that, in 2021, he received approximately $28,000 in income from Investment Firm #1 and more than $20,000 in unemployment insurance benefits from the NYS DOL.
I’ll give it a look.
I see you joined FR on March 23, 2023. Troll?
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