HacklemanPoke
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It’s even more sad than that. Republicans are the ones arguing that Menendez should retain his seat until a jury finds him guilty.
GOP Rep George Santos Arrested, charged with 13 crimes by DoJ
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Stillwater Townie
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Santos will have to change party registration to Democrat before Republicans will throw him out. That won't happen. But voters need to make things happen by throwing out a bunch of Republican incumbents in 2024. In other words, they need primaried.
Stillwater Townie
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Well, if Santos actually gets convicted of a felony, then hopefully Congress will have the good sense to get rid of him.
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WOW...JUST WOW
George Santos ‘Blatantly Stole From His Campaign’ And Could Face More Charges, Scathing House Ethics Report Finds
Santos “blatantly stole from his campaign” and “deceived donors” into making contributions he then used for “his personal benefit,” the bipartisan committee, led by Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), said in an eight-page summary of its months-long investigation into his conduct.
He also filed false or incomplete reports with the Federal Election Commission, “engaged in knowing and willful violations of the Ethics in Government Act,” and reported “fictitious loans to his political committees,” according to the report.
Santos executed his allegedly fraudulent schemes “through a constant series of lies to his constituents, donors, and staff about his background and experience,” the committee wrote.
The committee said it found Santos committed more crimes than the 23 federal offenses he has been charged with, and has submitted its findings to the Department of Justice.
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George Santos ‘Blatantly Stole From His Campaign’ And Could Face More Charges, Scathing House Ethics Report Finds
Santos “blatantly stole from his campaign” and “deceived donors” into making contributions he then used for “his personal benefit,” the bipartisan committee, led by Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), said in an eight-page summary of its months-long investigation into his conduct.
He also filed false or incomplete reports with the Federal Election Commission, “engaged in knowing and willful violations of the Ethics in Government Act,” and reported “fictitious loans to his political committees,” according to the report.
Santos executed his allegedly fraudulent schemes “through a constant series of lies to his constituents, donors, and staff about his background and experience,” the committee wrote.
The committee said it found Santos committed more crimes than the 23 federal offenses he has been charged with, and has submitted its findings to the Department of Justice.
George Santos ‘Blatantly Stole From His Campaign’ And Could Face More Charges, Scathing House Ethics Report Finds
The House Ethics Committee alleged Santos has committed more crimes than the 23 federal offenses he has already been charged with, according to a report it released Thursday.
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Santos says he won’t seek reelection after damning Ethics Committee report
George Santos Spent Campaign Cash On Botox, And Other Wild Allegations In His Ethics Report
Report describes use of campaign funds for personal travel and cosmetics
The report provided extensive evidence that Santos used campaign funds for lavish personal use.Santos racked up significant travel expenses for flights, hotels, Ubers and meals that do not appear to have any political or campaign purpose.
While one witness told the ethics panel there were only two trips taken during the campaign to Washington, DC, and Florida, additional witnesses described Santos’ travel as much more frequent.
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/politics/george-santos-reelection-ethics-investigation
One witness said Santos traveled “once per month,” and another testified they were “worried about the look of the campaign spending all this money on … all these dinners and travel outside of the district.”
Another staffer who witnessed Santos use campaign funds for meals and Ubers described Santos as “a high roller,” but said they did not have concerns about the spending.
In December 2021, Santos put taxi and hotel charges from Las Vegas on the campaign credit card, even though that was a time when he told his campaign staff he was on his honeymoon and there were no campaign events on his calendar.
A Federal Election Commission report listed a July 7, 2022, $3,332.81 Airbnb expenditure as “Hotel stay,” when the campaign’s calendar revealed Santos was “off at [the] Hampton’s for the weekend.”
Santos also spent $2,281.52 at resorts in Atlantic City from July 23 to July 24, 2022, a day when his calendar revealed he had one event at 8pm on the 24th entitled “NRCC Candidate.”
One former Santos staffer told the Ethics panel he did not recall “any sort of fundraising or campaign things in Atlantic City,” but said Santos told him he enjoyed visiting casinos to play roulette, often with his husband.
Additionally, spa and cosmetic services did not appear to have a campaign purpose.
Examples in the report include:
• $1,400 at Virtual Skin Spa in Jericho, New York, in July 2022
• $225 at CityMD in Huntington, New York, on August 27, 2022
• $1,500 purchase on the campaign debit card in 2020 was made at Mirza Aesthetics, which was not reported to the FEC and was noted as “Botox” in expense spreadsheets
• $1,400 charge at Virtual Skin Spa was a campaign debit card purchase that was also described as “Botox” in the spreadsheets
• An unreported PayPal payment of $1,029.30 to an esthetician associated with a spa in Rhinebeck, New York.
• $4,127.80 purchase at Hermes
• Smaller purchases at Only Fans, Sephora, meals, and parking.
Report outlines long list of lies
A vulnerability report commissioned by his campaign during the 2022 election cycle – and included in the ethics report released Thursday – chronicles his lies about his education and his employment history and details multiple eviction notices and civil judgments.These reports, typically created to show what opposition research can be dug up on a candidate, runs some 137 pages long.
Topping the vulnerability report are Santos’ lies about his education – that he graduated with an MBA from New York University and a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College.
“The registrar offices at both institutions said there was no record of Santos earning any degree from either university,” the report said.
The report also detailed “at least three housing eviction lawsuits were filed against Santos and his family in Queens, New York” between 2014 and 2017, and notes that Santos has had “multiple civil judgments filed against him for owing thousands of dollars to creditors.”
Santos reimbursed for personal loans he didn’t make
One of the enduring questions about Santos’ campaign filings has been his claim that he provided six-figure personal loans in support of his congressional bids – given his modest means.In its report, the committee concluded that there “is substantial evidence” that most of the nearly $800,000 that Santos reported making in personal loans to his campaign committee and to an aligned leadership PAC in the 2020 and 2022 election cycles “were not actually made or properly disclosed” to regulators at the Federal Election Commission, known as the FEC. (Santos ran unsuccessfully for Congress in 2020 before winning his Long Island seat last year.)
Additionally, the investigators found that Santos was improperly “reimbursed” with donors’ money for campaign loans he didn’t make.
The report also took aim at Santos’ repeated characterization of himself as the victim of a rogue campaign treasurer, saying he was “heavily involved in the day-to-day financial operations of his campaigns.”
“Representative Santos has login credentials to access the campaign’s bank accounts online, reviewed FEC reports, tracked money as it was coming and going out of the campaign, reviewed invoices and received weekly finance reports,” the report states.
In October, his former treasurer, Nancy Marks, admitted in court to conspiring with Santos to fill out federal documents with false claims and information as part of pleading guilty to one count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
George Santos Allegedly Used Shadowy LLC To Spend Donors’ Cash At Hermes And OnlyFans.
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What Is RedStone Strategies? George Santos Allegedly Used Shadowy LLC To Spend Donors’ Cash At Hermes And OnlyFans.
Santos will not run for re-election, in the wake of a scathing House Ethics Committee report accusing him of extensively stealing from his campaign.
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This guy thinks that because he’s gay that none of the rules apply to him.
Surprise!!!!
UpGrayedd Double Dose
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The fact is he never should have made it this far. Unfortunately, Kevin McCarthy thought he needed him as a useful idiot to maintain power and the speakership, and the rest of the Republicans fell in line. It is one of the many reasons I am disgusted by my own party.
PF5
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wtf!!!!
I know it's hard to convey tone on a message board, but the post above and the original post are exact opposite in tone
I know. But I hate him for thinking that because he portrayed that he’s gay it means he’s untouchable