George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé

[Kendra]

CNN's Manu Raju got a sit down interview with Santos. They just showed clips, but the whole thing will be aired on Manu's Sunday morning show.

[Rolodex]

CNN's Manu Raju got a sit down interview with Santos. They just showed clips, but the whole thing will be aired on Manu's Sunday morning show.

Comedy Central would be more appropriate.

[Kendra]

CNN's Manu Raju got a sit down interview with Santos. They just showed clips, but the whole thing will be aired on Manu's Sunday morning show.

Comedy Central would be more appropriate.

[raison de arizona]

Santos' letter to colleagues, as annotated by Jamie Raskin.

[sad-cafe]

Damn Raskin is good

[Tiredretiredlawyer]

[Rolodex]

Damn Raskin is good

He's one of my favorites. So smart. Suffered so much tragedy and still keeps serving.

[Ben-Prime]

CNN's Manu Raju got a sit down interview with Santos. They just showed clips, but the whole thing will be aired on Manu's Sunday morning show.

Please tell me it ended with Santos looking right at the camera and saying "And for CNN, I'm Manu Raju."

[Kendra]

CNN's Manu Raju got a sit down interview with Santos. They just showed clips, but the whole thing will be aired on Manu's Sunday morning show.

Please tell me it ended with Santos looking right at the camera and saying "And for CNN, I'm Manu Raju."

We'll have to wait for Sunday to see.

[raison de arizona]

New -- Interview with George Santos.

We talk about his charges
- His campaign treasurer accusing him of engaging in a fraudulent fundraising scheme (he denies it)
- Making false statements with the House (says it was a "mistake")
- Allegedly taking $24K in jobless benefits

[northland10]

Damn Raskin is good

One quibble. He should have used a red pen.

[bill_g]

Don't forget the part where he claims Ukrainian lineage, even had the DNA work done, but can't prove cuz, you know - war.

[Suranis]

Well there are no Ukrania refugees around to compare to.

[northland10]

Don't forget the part where he claims Ukrainian lineage, even had the DNA work done, but can't prove cuz, you know - war.

Anybody with some distance relations to Jewish, Eastern European, eastern German, and even Muslim/Turkic backgrounds might end up with some small Ukraining lineage. Lots of different folks have wandered into and through that area.

[raison de arizona]

Uh-oh.

Vitali: “It is more bad news for...George Santos... We’re now learning that a former campaign fundraiser for the embattled congressman pled guilty today in federal court after being indicted for impersonating an aid to ex-house speaker Kevin McCarthy.”

[Kendra]

[Rolodex]

Here's the story.

Sam Miele – who worked for the Santos campaign during the 2020 and 2022 election cycles – was indicted by a federal grand jury in August and accused of soliciting contributions from more than a dozen potential contributors using former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy aide’s identity in phone and email communications.

In addition to the guilty plea, Miele also stipulated to committing access device fraud, in a loss of approximately $100,000, according to a spokesperson for Eastern District US Attorney’s office.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/14/politics ... index.html

[Slim Cognito]

[Frater I*I]

It must truly suck to be Kitara right now....

[AndyinPA]

I hope so.

[Volkonski]

Steve Herman
@w7voa@journa.host
House Ethics Commitee report, expected to be released tomorrow, on Rep. Santos (R-NY) won't recommend punishment, chairman Guest (R-MS) tells reporters.

[raison de arizona]

Steve Herman
@w7voa@journa.host
House Ethics Commitee report, expected to be released tomorrow, on Rep. Santos (R-NY) won't recommend punishment, chairman Guest (R-MS) tells reporters.

This is my shocked face:

[Rolodex]

Steve Herman
@w7voa@journa.host
House Ethics Commitee report, expected to be released tomorrow, on Rep. Santos (R-NY) won't recommend punishment, chairman Guest (R-MS) tells reporters.

This is my shocked face:

They need his vote and he'll be happy to let Kevin elbow-check him any time he wants.

[Gregg]

Anchor chain the phucktwaddle to every Republican running.

[Kendra]

https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/16/politics ... index.html

Republican Rep. George Santos announced he will not seek reelection to the House next year, following the Ethics Committee’s release of its long-awaited report on Thursday, concluding that there is “substantial evidence” that the New York congressman used campaign funds for personal purposes.

The report said Santos engaged in “knowing and willful violations” with regard to financial disclosure statements filed with the House, and “knowingly caused his campaign committee to file false or incomplete reports with the Federal Election Commission.”

A statement from the committee accompanying the report said the panel unanimously voted to adopt the report. The committee said it uncovered additional “uncharged and unlawful conduct” by Santos that go beyond the criminal allegations already pending against him, and would immediately refer these allegations to the Justice Department for further investigation.

Santos announced in a statement that he will not seek reelection following the release of the ethics report, though he remained defiant in the face of the allegations against him and denounced the investigation, calling it a “biased report.”

“It is a disgusting politicized smear that shows the depths of how low our federal government has sunk. Everyone who participated in this grave miscarriage of Justice should all be ashamed of themselves,” Santos wrote of the report in a post on X. He went on to say, “I will however NOT be seeking re-election for a second term in 2024 as my family deserves better than to be under the gun from the press all the time.”