George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé
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How many times was the internet invented, was Santos among them to also
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New details link George Santos to cousin of sanctioned Russian oligarch
The New York congressman once claimed Andrew Intrater’s company was his “client,” while another Intrater company allegedly made a deposit with a firm where Santos worked
By Isaac Stanley-Becker and Rosalind S. Helderman
January 16, 2023 at 6:00 a.m. EST
George Santos, the freshman Republican congressman from New York who lied about his biography, has deeper ties than previously known to a businessman who cultivated close links with a onetime Trump confidant and who is the cousin of a sanctioned Russian oligarch, according to video footage and court documents.
Andrew Intrater and his wife each gave the maximum $5,800 to Santos’ main campaign committee and tens of thousands more since 2020 to committees linked to him, according to filings with the Federal Election Commission. Intrater’s cousin is Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, who has been sanctioned by the U.S. government for his role in the Russian energy industry.
The relationship between Santos and Intrater goes beyond campaign contributions, according to a statement made privately by Santos in 2020 and a court filing the following year in a lawsuit brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission against a Florida-based investment firm, Harbor City Capital, where Santos worked for more than a year.
Taken together, the evidence suggests Santos may have had a business relationship with Intrater as Santos was first entering politics in 2020. It also shows, according to the SEC filing, that Intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into Santos’ onetime employer, Harbor City, which was accused by regulators of running a Ponzi scheme. Neither Santos nor Intrater responded to requests for comment. Attorneys who have represented Intrater also did not respond.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics ... mbus-nova/
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(original: Florida Today)George Santos' company moves HQ from M.I. penthouse to Melbourne mail store
John McCarthy, Florida Today
Mon, January 16, 2023 at 6:41 PM GMT+1
The Devolder Organization LLC, the supposed source of disgraced Rep. George Santos's wealth, has changed its headquarters from a penthouse on Merritt Island to a mail-services store in Melbourne. The move came just as FLORIDA TODAY was preparing a story about Santos's Brevard County connections.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/george-santo ... 03379.html
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(original: Insider)Rep. George Santos was paid by a company the SEC called a 'classic Ponzi scheme' but never disclosed the payments as a candidate, report says
Kelsey Vlamis
Thu, January 12, 2023 at 4:22 AM GMT+1
Republican Rep. George Santos of New York was paid by a company that the Securities and Exchange Commission called a "classic Ponzi scheme" but failed to disclose it, a lawyer told The Washington Post in a report published Wednesday.
- Republican Rep. George Santos has made false statements about his work and education history.
A Washington Post report indicates he was paid in 2021 by a firm accused of running a Ponzi scheme.
Payment from the firm wasn't included in his candidate financial disclosure.
Santos, who has made false claims about his education and employment history, was paid by the firm, Harbor City Capital, which is based in Florida, as recently as April 2021, according to Katherine C. Donlon, the lawyer appointed by the court to review the firm. She declined to tell the Post how much Santos was paid.
Santos had previously told The Daily Beast he left the company on March 1, 2021.
Within weeks of April 2021, Santos founded the Devolder Organization, the firm through which he was paid a $750,000 salary in 2022, far surpassing his previous reported salary of $55,000 in 2020.
A financial disclosure filed by Santos as a candidate that covered January 2021 to December 2022 didn't list any payments from Harbor City Capital.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rep-george-s ... 52955.html
George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé
Deadline White House is doing a deep dive today on Santos. Worth watching.
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Great sportsman, obviously great at fair play, or just playing the voters
George Santos lied about being a 'star' college volleyball player at the university he lied about attending, Nassau GOP chairman says
John L. Dorman,Madison Hall
Wed, January 11, 2023 at 6:58 PM GMT+1·
The chairman of the Nassau County Republican Party on Tuesday said that embattled Rep. George Santos told him that he was a "star player" on a the volleyball team for a college that he did not attend.
- The Nassau County GOP chair said Santos told him he was a "star" volleyball player in college.
Santos, who claimed to have attended Baruch College, later admitted he did not attend the school.
Top Nassau Republicans are now calling on Santos to resign from office.
During a press conference featuring top Nassau GOP officials calling on Santos to resign from Congress, Joseph Cairo said that the congressman fabricated his involvement with the Baruch College sports team while being vetted during the campaign.
"He told me ... that he was a star on the Baruch volleyball team and that they won the league championship," Cairo said of Santos.
https://news.yahoo.com/george-santos-li ... 05988.html
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Look, we shouldn't pick on the guy. He *did* give up his seat on that bus to Rosa Parks, after all.
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(R-CA) on Rep. George Santos (R-NY): "He'll get seated on committees."
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Santos' only contribution will be to support the (-R) vote as ordered by his elders. And anything he leaks from the committee prodeedings can be considered a lie until proven otherwise.
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The whole Republican party at this point is built on lies. This is par for the course. I feel bad for the people still trying to cling to the Republican party they once knew, but they need to face the music and let it go.
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I think about kids in school reading about this period the way we read about Tammany Hall and I smile a tight smile, knowing that the Trump family name will be lower than dirt in the history books and Republicans will be replaced.
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And he was one of the dudes pointing toward the MLK assassin.
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Manu Raju @mkraju is reporting that Santos wanted to serve on the Financial Services and Foreign Affairs Committees — but he won’t get either, per GOP sources.
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George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé
https://patch.com/new-york/oysterbay/di ... s-gofundme
Moar at the link. Only the best...QUEENS, NY — In May 2016, Richard Osthoff was living in a tent in an abandoned chicken coop on the side of Route 9 in Howell, New Jersey, with his beloved service dog Sapphire. A veteran's charity gave the pit mix to Osthoff, a disabled veteran who was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 2002, he told Patch.
When Sapphire developed a life-threatening stomach tumor, Osthoff, now 47, learned the surgery would cost $3,000. A veterinary technician took Osthoff aside and told him, "'I know a guy who runs a pet charity who can help you,'" Osthoff recounted.
His name was Anthony Devolder, and his pet charity was called Friends of Pets United, the vet tech told him.
George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé
That's despicable.
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If I ever come across Santos, I'm going to beat the shit out of him....I don't care about jail, I've been to jail...
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Santos was placed on the Small Business Committee and Science, Space and Technology Committee.
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Now he can investigate the news that he faked his moon landing
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I'm wondering how much of that was leadership asking "Where can he do the least harm?" And by 'harm', I include embarassing the leadership.raison de arizona wrote: ↑Tue Jan 17, 2023 10:49 pm Santos was placed on the Small Business Committee and Science, Space and Technology Committee.
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(original: HuffPost)Astronaut Scott Kelly Delivers Out-Of-This-World Troll Of George Santos
Ed Mazza
Wed, January 18, 2023 at 4:53 AM GMT+1
Scott Kelly, retired NASA astronaut and twin to Sen. Mark Kelly (D-Ariz.), offered some sarcastic congratulations to embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was just named to the House Science, Space and Technology Committee.
Kelly wrote: <see below>
Santos has been busted in dozens of lies about his personal history, qualifications, work experience and even his name to the point where a growing number of Republicans are calling on him to resign.
Despite that, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) ― who admitted this week that he “always had a few questions” about Santos ― named him to both the Space and Technology Committee as well as the Small Business Committee.
Kelly wasn’t the only one to troll Santos over it: <see below>
https://www.yahoo.com/news/astronaut-sc ... 23930.html
Tweets in article carried over:
https://twitter.com/StationCDRKelly/sta ... 7682876418
Scott Kelly @StationCDRKelly
Awesome to have former NASA astronaut and moon walker, Representative George Santos @Santos4Congress on the House Science Space and Technology Committee. To infinity and beyond!11:59 PM · Jan 17, 2023Manu Raju @mkraju
Santos tapped by top Rs for two committee spots -- Small Business and Science.
Roger Williams, chairman of Small Business, told me: "I don't condone what he said, what he's done. I don't think anybody does. That's not my role. He was elected. He represents a million people."
https://twitter.com/NoLieWithBTC/status ... 4893265921
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Republicans have put George Santos, who founded Apple in his garage in 1976, on the House Small Business Committee. A true American success story.
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(original: The Conversation)Allegations that the charity George Santos claims to have run was fake highlight how scams divert money from worthy causes
Sarah Webber, Associate Professor of Accounting, University of Dayton
Tue, January 17, 2023 at 2:33 PM GMT+1
Rep. George Santos, the New York Republican whose 2022 election to the House of Representatives flipped a seat previously held by a Democrat, faces pressure to resign for having reportedly lied extensively about his education, employment history and religious heritage. He also faces allegations that he may have participated in financial fraud.
When Santos apologized for having “embellished” his resume, he also said, “We do stupid things in life.”
Because I’m a nonprofit accounting scholar, what has really caught my eye are the reports that Santos fabricated a charity. On an early version of his campaign website, the freshman lawmaker claimed to have founded and run what has been alleged to be a fake nonprofit animal rescue group called Friends of Pets United.
Santos says the group rescued 2,400 dogs and 280 cats and that it trapped, neutered and released over 3,000 cats from 2013 to 2018. Trouble is, there’s no evidence that has been presented publicly showing the charity ever existed.
As media outlets have reported, Friends of Pets United has no website. There’s no record of the Internal Revenue Service granting the organization nonprofit status or of a group by that name annually filing the required paperwork with the IRS. And it is further alleged that a fundraising event he held with another New Jersey animal rescue group never received any of the funds it was promised.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/allegations- ... 47690.html
George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé
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Interestingly, just bc of GOP position, it appears that Santos was a drag queen in Brazil. This, according to his ex-roommate, who had a copy of Brazilian paper featuring his picture as “Kitara Ravache” Did GOP just elect 1st drag queen to Congress? Lol
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