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Let's see how fast Kevin "I Need Every Vote I Can Get" McCarthy deals with this.
Santos is just proving to be a Mini-Me version of Trumpy. Liar, conman, thief, getting indicted, and his aides too.
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Feds Indict George Santos Campaign Aide Over Shady Fundraising Tactics
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Feds+Indict+George+Santos+Campaign+Aide+Over+Shady+Fundraising+Tactics
A campaign fundraiser for indicted Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has himself been indicted on four federal felony counts stemming from emails and phone calls in which he allegedly impersonated a high-ranking aide to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Samuel Miele, who worked for Santos during the 2020 and 2022 election cycles, is facing four counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.
McCarthy and his chief of staff, Dan Meyer, are not cited by name in the indictment, but it was widely reported earlier this year that Miele had masqueraded as Meyer when contacting donors. Miele was reportedly fired after the allegations became public.
“Mr. Miele is not guilty of these charges,” his attorney, Kevin Marino, told The Daily Beast in an email on Wednesday. “He looks forward to complete vindication at trial as soon as possible.”
The feds say Miele posed as Meyer while communicating with more than a dozen potential donors during the last half of 2021. He did this “falsely and without authorization,” to raise money for Santos—and a 15 percent commission for himself, the indictment says. Miele made phone calls as Meyer, and sent emails from an account set up in Meyer’s name, according to the indictment. The funds were then deposited into Santos’ campaign account, after which Miele got his cut, the indictment states.
Prosecutors say Miele copped to the scheme in a letter to Santos last September, admitting to “faking my identity to a big donor.” However, Miele pointed out, there was “high risk, high reward in everything I do.”
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How is this dude still in office? He’s a fucking disgrace.
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How is this dude still in office? He’s a fucking disgrace.
Obviously you have to have indictments to qualify for the GOP these days.
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He was that before Santos came around... now he's got to protect that slim margin at all costs. Weakest Speaker ever. Scared of his own shadow.
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Democrat calls McCarthy ‘pathetic and shameful’ for protecting Santos after aide charged
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Democrat+calls+McCarthy+%E2%80%98pathetic+and+shameful%E2%80%99+for+protecting+Santos+after+aide+charged
A senior Democrat called Kevin McCarthy “pathetic and shameful” on Wednesday, for continuing to protect George Santos even as a staffer to the fabulist Republican congressman faced charges for impersonating the House speaker’s own chief of staff.
Daniel Goldman of New York said: “According to a federal indictment, George Santos paid someone to impersonate Kevin McCarthy’s chief of staff to raise money, yet McCarthy continues to protect Santos.
“Pathetic and shameful.”
The indictment of Samuel Miele on four counts of wire fraud and one of aggravated identity theft was issued in the same New York court where in May Santos pleaded not guilty to charges including fraud, theft and money laundering, CNBC reported.
Miele did not immediately comment.
Santos was elected to his New York seat last November. He was soon found to have fabricated most of his résumé and to be under investigation in multiple jurisdictions for alleged misdeeds including campaign finance violations, dubious business schemes and sexual harassment.
McCarthy removed Santos from committee assignments but otherwise refused to move against a congressman who backed him through 15 votes for speaker, saying investigations should run their course.
In May, Republicans dodged a Democratic attempt to make Santos only the sixth member ever expelled from the House. Santos, who has admitted “embellishing” his résumé but denies wrongdoing, is running for re-election next year.
CNBC first reported Miele’s impersonation of a senior McCarthy staffer, saying he called “wealthy donors” during the 2020 and 2022 election cycles, identifying himself as Dan Meyer.
In that report, in January, CNBC said: “The impersonation of the top House Republican’s chief of staff adds to an emerging picture of a winning congressional campaign propelled by fabrications and questionable tactics.”
Since then, almost every aspect of Santos’s political career, even his real name, has been brought into question.
Republicans under McCarthy control the House by just five seats, making Santos’s seat a key target for Democrats.
Goldman, a former prosecutor and lead counsel to the first impeachment of Donald Trump, has worked with another New York Democrat, Ritchie Torres, to keep Santos in the spotlight.
In remarks on the House floor in June, Goldman told Republicans: “You are the party of George Santos.
“… The guy is an alleged and acknowledged liar and indicted, and you protect him every day … It’s pathetic, and it’s beneath you and it’s beneath this body.”
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Two sentences in and Trump's name....rent free.
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Let's see how fast Kevin "I Need Every Vote I Can Get" McCarthy deals with this.
Santos is just proving to be a Mini-Me version of Trumpy. Liar, conman, thief, getting indicted, and his aides too.
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Feds Indict George Santos Campaign Aide Over Shady Fundraising Tactics
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Feds+Indict+George+Santos+Campaign+Aide+Over+Shady+Fundraising+Tactics
A campaign fundraiser for indicted Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has himself been indicted on four federal felony counts stemming from emails and phone calls in which he allegedly impersonated a high-ranking aide to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA).
Samuel Miele, who worked for Santos during the 2020 and 2022 election cycles, is facing four counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, according to an indictment unsealed Wednesday.
McCarthy and his chief of staff, Dan Meyer, are not cited by name in the indictment, but it was widely reported earlier this year that Miele had masqueraded as Meyer when contacting donors. Miele was reportedly fired after the allegations became public.
“Mr. Miele is not guilty of these charges,” his attorney, Kevin Marino, told The Daily Beast in an email on Wednesday. “He looks forward to complete vindication at trial as soon as possible.”
The feds say Miele posed as Meyer while communicating with more than a dozen potential donors during the last half of 2021. He did this “falsely and without authorization,” to raise money for Santos—and a 15 percent commission for himself, the indictment says. Miele made phone calls as Meyer, and sent emails from an account set up in Meyer’s name, according to the indictment. The funds were then deposited into Santos’ campaign account, after which Miele got his cut, the indictment states.
Prosecutors say Miele copped to the scheme in a letter to Santos last September, admitting to “faking my identity to a big donor.” However, Miele pointed out, there was “high risk, high reward in everything I do.”
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Two sentences in and Trump's name....rent free.
Two sentences in and factual comparison. It triggers you doesn't it?
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Hahaha. The gift that keeps on giving. The righties sure are quiet about this little fiasco.
October is shaping up to be a great month for the Republicans appearing in court.
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George Santos filed false campaign reports inflating his fundraising figures to garner national GOP support, prosecutors say
https://www.google.com/search?channel=ftrc&client=firefox-b-1-d&q=George+Santos+filed+false+campaign+reports+inflating+his+fundraising+figures+to+garner+national+GOP+support%2C+prosecutors+say
Republican Rep. George Santos of New York falsely inflated his campaign's fundraising figures in order to garner support from the National Republican Campaign Committee (NRCC), federal prosecutors said in a new filing on Thursday.
The new information emerged as the scandal-plagued congressman's treasurer, Nancy Marks, pled guilty to one felony count of conspiracy to defraud the United States.
Prosecutors allege in the new filing that Santos and Marks filed false campaign finance reports to the Federal Election Committee in the year before he was elected to Congress, including reporting a $500,000 loan in March 31 from Santos himself, which prosecutors say he "did not have the funds necessary to make."
There has been much speculation as to where Santos, who's faced numerous evictions, was able to garner the funds necessary to make roughly $700,000 in loans to his campaign. The filing suggests that at least one of those loans never took place.
Santos and Marks also falsely reported $53,200 in contributions from 10 different family members of Santos, according to prosecutors.
All of this, prosecutors say, was part of an attempt to qualify for the second phase of a program that provided "financial and logistical support" to Republican congressional candidates — apparently the "Young Guns" program run by the NRCC, House Republicans' primary campaign arm.
As the duo prepared to file a quarterly campaign finance filing on January 31, 2022, Santos told Marks in a text message that he was feeling "lost and desperate," according to the filing.
Santos ended up qualifying for the program the following month based on the false campaign finance reports.
Santos' lawyer, Joseph Murray, did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment. His congressional office does not comment on legal matters.
Santos, who already faces 13 federal charges including money laundering, wire fraud, and theft of public funds, is set to appear in court again on October 27.
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10 new charges. Got to love the tough talk from him thought.
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Santos, who is due in court on Oct. 27 on the new charges, told reporters outside the U.S. Capitol that he does not intend to resign from office or take a plea deal, vowing to prove his "innocence" while daring colleagues to expel him. “They can try to expel me, but I pity the fools that go ahead and do that and think that that's the smartest idea,” Santos said, according to Politico. “They're in tough elections next year, but they're setting precedent for the future.”
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But only 23 felony charges? Got a long way to go before reaching the level of his orange hero.
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No one cares about Santos. Move on Junior
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Know one cares about Santos. Move on Junior
Yes they do. McCarthy did. Needed that vote of his. Couldn't be bothered to pursue his crimes in depth.
You know the funny thing is that you and Santos have a lot of qualities in common.
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Know one cares about Santos. Move on Junior
I care. He is a complete fraud who should not still be in office... maybe in jail though.
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Yes they do. McCarthy did. Needed that vote of his. Couldn't be bothered to pursue his crimes in depth.
You know the funny thing is that you and Santos have a lot of qualities in common.
Just curios what qualities do you believe they have in common?
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Just curios what qualities do you believe they have in common?
Complete detachment from reality. Lack of credibility. "Witch hunt" syndrome.
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I care. He is a complete fraud who should not still be in office... maybe in jail though.
Seriously? you fucking voted for Biden!
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Seriously? you fucking voted for Biden!
Which has absolutely nothing to do with Santos or his fraudulent activities. I did not vote for Santos and would not have, had I lived in his NY district. Also there is the fact that he was the republican candidate and I am a democrat.
Sometimes your posts and reasoning are beyond dumb.
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Seriously? you fucking voted for Biden!
And you voted for Trumpy. Who, like Santos, deserves prison too.
There really is just no limit to your stupidity it seems.
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And you voted for Trumpy. Who, like Santos, deserves prison too.
There really is just no limit to your stupidity it seems.
Show us the proof of Trump like we showed you the proof of Biden and his crime family. I’ll wait.
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This fucking guy should resign. This is the GOP trying to look more “hip” and accepting of minorities. They jumped to it and slurped it up so quick, they didn’t even bother to vet the dude. Pathetic.
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Show us the proof of Trump like we showed you the proof of Biden and his crime family. I’ll wait.
You haven't shown shit. Not with the fake birth certificate, not with the stolen election, not with the covid assassinations, not with the gov't knowing about school shootings in advance and allowing it happen, etc..... NOTHING. <---- Nothing = the story of your life.
There are 4 indictments and 90+ felony charges that have the evidence and proof to back up each one.
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Ah, so leftists can spot corruption when they want to? Let's have some healthy perspective....Biden is just this Santos guy pre-internet.
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He's broke. Good news is, he is pretty used to it by now. Obviously the GOP needs his votes more than they need their integrity. :D
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George Santos’s Campaign Is Broke
https://www.google.com/search?channel=ftrc&client=firefox-b-1-d&q=George+Santos%E2%80%99s+Campaign+Is+Broke
Indiscriminate lies, criminal charges, and intraparty calls to resign can’t seem to topple Representative
—but bankruptcy might.
Numerous donors to the political pariah’s campaign wanted their money back amid the Long Island Republican’s numerous scandals over the summer. New filings with the Federal Election Commission show a significant overdraft between July and September: negative $16,526.09. That consists of $17,200 in refunds, along with $674 in new donations.
Santos’s campaign has spent lavishly even though it has brought in almost no new donations. In those same months, the New York Republican’s campaign spent $42,000, leaving him with less than $23,000 in the bank by the end of September. The bulk of that spending went to the D.C.-based legal firm Dickinson Wright, which Santos owes another $70,000, reported Axios.
On top of that, Santos’s campaign treasurer seemingly “became aware” of more than $120,000 in previously undisclosed debts within the last three months owed to several aides and vendors, according to the filings.
Added to the $630,000 that Santos still owes himself thanks to a fake (and then suddenly real) 2022 campaign contribution, that leaves the congressmen more than $800,000 in the red.
On Tuesday, Santos was hit with a dozen charges related to stealing his donors’ identification and credit card information, allegedly wiring tens of thousands of dollars to his personal bank account while using the rest to jack up his campaign numbers.
“As alleged, Santos is charged with stealing people’s identities and making charges on his own donors’ credit cards without their authorization, lying to the FEC and, by extension, the public about the financial state of his campaign. Santos falsely inflated the campaign’s reported receipts with non-existent loans and contributions that were either fabricated or stolen,” said United States Attorney Breon Peace in a release announcing the indictment.
The congressman is due in federal court in Suffolk County on October 27.
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When caught in a lie, just lie bigger! This is what I think this liar would be a perfect House Speaker representing the core values of the GOP MAGA trapped Congress.
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George Santos' Latest Fib May Be The Congressman's Wildest One Yet
https://www.google.com/search?channel=ftrc&client=firefox-b-1-d&q=George+Santos%27+Latest+Fib+May+Be+The+Congressman%27s+Wildest+One+Yet%E2%80%8B
As if he hasn’t done enough to establish himself as untrustworthy,George Santos has somehow managed to add yet more fuel to his ever-raging fire by lying to a New York Times reporter about his five-year-old niece being kidnapped by two Chinese men.
Yes, you read that correctly.
Times reporter Grace Ashford published the story based on several phone conversations she’d shared with the congressmen after beginning her investigation into Santos alongside Times reporter Michael Gold after the fabulist was elected last November as a member of New York's House of Representatives.
Santos, nearly a year later, is on the hook for a whopping 23 federal charges, including money laundering, wire fraud, and theft of public funds — he is still in office as of this writing.
Ashford said that Santos called her for the first time in September and complained about the media “slandering” him and causing him and his husband to receive death threats before describing an incident “nobody talks about.” He then detailed a kidnapping involving his five-year-old niece saying surveillance footage showed her in the company of two Chinese men, which he cited was “retaliation” against his criticism of the Chinese Communist Party.
Santos also claimed said kidnapping was undergoing an active police investigation. You can guess what happened next. When Ashford dug a little deeper, it’s probably no surprise to anybody that the high-ranking police official she chatted with found no evidence of such a case.
“I’d lean into, ‘he made it up,’” the official told Ashford.
Santos stands firm in saying his negative media portrayal includes “factual and timeline errors” and that his team had “requested numerous corrections,” but the Times’ standards team found no such requests from anybody.
The congressman (again, he is still in office) has already pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges in less than a year in office, and he’s set to be arraigned on another 10 at the end of the month.
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The fatty is facing an expulsion vote next week. Now what should we expect? Republican'ts doing the right thing and tossing this serial loser out on his ass or continuing to look the other way because they need his vote?
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Only one that matters is Trump and he's killin it in the polls.
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Only one that matters is Trump and he's killin it in the polls.
The only poll that matters is election day and Trumpy got killed in the last one.
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Santos is a loser and needs to be booted from the party and his office.
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Santos announces he will not seek re-election. Only last week he was announcing that he would, indeed, seek re-election. He claims he wants to protect his family.
Obviously, the multiple charges, aides pleading guilty, spending his campaign funds illegally on OnlyFans and Botox, compulsively lying, and being the subject of an expulsion vote wasn't enough for him think twice.
This sucks. We The People deserve to see him run and lose horrendously to someone else.
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SDS
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Santos announces he will not seek re-election. Only last week he was announcing that he would, indeed, seek re-election. He claims he wants to protect his family.
Obviously, the multiple charges, aides pleading guilty, spending his campaign funds illegally on OnlyFans and Botox, compulsively lying, and being the subject of an expulsion vote wasn't enough for him think twice.
This sucks. We The People deserve to see him run and lose horrendously to someone else.
Hmmm. Santos was charged in Brazil in 2011 for using two stolen checks to make purchases. His response was to flee the country. Recently he agreed to pay $5,000 in exchange for the case the case against him being dropped. If he paid the $5,000 (which he may not have… considering his record), he is free to return to Brazil.
He is now facing multiple charges in the U.S. which could result in hefty fines or even prison time. It would not surprise me if he defected from the U.S, returning to Brazil to avoid ‘facing the music’ here.
For some reason, I do not like or trust this fellow. But should he go back to Brazil, then I say, “good riddance.’
The Brazilian constitution prohibits the extradition of nationals. However, according to Brazilian law, George may not qualify as a national because he was born in Jacksonville Hights, NY, although to Brazilian parents.
Even more complicated is if either or both of his parents were in the service of the Brazilian government when he was born, or he is registered with the Brazilian consular office, and lastly, he moves to Brazil and confirms his nationality before a federal judge.
Confirming your nationality there requires you to have lived there for four years. I think he is one year shy. The applicant needs to be able to communicate in Portuguese, and he has no prior criminal record either in Brazil or perhaps in the U.S.
If he has notable "relevant services" to the country such as "professional, scientific, or "artistic ability" (wasn't he once a drag queen?), the residency requirement is reduced to 2 years. If he married a Brazilian when he lived there, the requirement reduces to 1 year.
Honestly, George defecting seems like a real possibility to me.
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SDS
Defending another liar and con artist would be right up your alley it appears. No surprise.
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Santos is a loser and needs to be booted from the party and his office.
We agree.
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Keeping him around this long only shows how weak and ineffective the GOP really is. Do you really want to be led by a party that panders to easily exposed serial liars, con men, thieves, and buffons? That was a rhetorical question. No answers needed. 8)
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No one matters but Mr. Trump. George who....cares!
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Keeping him around this long only shows how weak and ineffective the GOP really is. Do you really want to be led by a party that panders to easily exposed serial liars, con men, thieves, and buffons? That was a rhetorical question. No answers needed. 8)
FFS. LOL
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FFS. LOL
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Can you list her indictments and felony charges?
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Can you list her indictments and felony charges?
She's a disgusting POS who absolutely should be deported just like you!
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She's a disgusting POS who absolutely should be deported just like you!
Translation : She has no felony charges unlike the other two losers.
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Translation : She has no felony charges unlike the other two losers.
The fact the you stand behind that despicable POS says A lot about you.
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The fact the you stand behind that despicable POS says A lot about you.
The fact you stand behind a despicable POS like Santos and Trumpy says a lot about you. Mainly that you are a sucker.
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The fact you stand behind a despicable POS like Santos and Trumpy says a lot about you. Mainly that you are a sucker.
The PT Barnum saying is ""There's a sucker born every minute."
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The PT Barnum saying is ""There's a sucker born every minute."
And that fool seems to be on an automatic reincarnation cycle.
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The PT Barnum saying is ""There's a sucker born every minute."
Always need a sucker to clean up the shitty mess kids leave. Isn’t that right PrimeJanitor.
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The PT Barnum saying is ""There's a sucker born every minute."
I thought it was "there's a sucker on one side of the glory hole"?
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Well, the Santos curse continues. With a "very foolish woman" losing her bid for the seat, and a "very orange man" trying to deflect another embarrassing loss attributed to him, and a hard troll from the one outed himself :
Santos told the New York GOP in a text message: “I hope you guys are happy with this dismal performance and the 10 million dollars your futile Bull Shit cost the party.” “I look very much forward to seeing most of you lose due to your absolute hate filled campaign to remove me from Congress arbitrarily,” he added. “Now go tell the Republicans Base [sic] what you fucking idiots did and good luck raising money next quarter.”
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To the surprise of no one...
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Former U.S. Rep. George Santos on Tuesday said he is dropping his longshot bid to return to Congress, months after he was expelled from the House while facing a slew of federal fraud charges.
Santos, who was running as an independent candidate for the 1st Congressional District in New York, said he was withdrawing from the race in a post on the social media platform X.
The announcement came after the disgraced former congressman's campaign committee reported no fundraising or expenditures in March, raising speculation that his campaign had failed to get off the ground.
Santos last month launched a campaign to challenge Republican Rep. Nick LaLota in the GOP primary for the eastern Long Island congressional district, which is a different district than the one he previously represented. Weeks later, Santos said he was leaving the Republican Party and would instead run for the seat as an independent.
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He’ll end up attempting suicide now that he’s no longer relevant or shielded from prosecution. I’m not sure if he’ll succeed or not though.
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He’ll end up attempting suicide now that he’s no longer relevant or shielded from prosecution. I’m not sure if he’ll succeed or not though.
LOL!
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He’ll end up attempting suicide now that he’s no longer relevant or shielded from prosecution. I’m not sure if he’ll succeed or not though.
He'll fake a few attempts for sure. Old habits die hard.
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He'll fake a few attempts for sure. Old habits die hard.
Hahahaha. Can you imagine? His body will be discovered at least 3 times before people think that maybe it is for real.