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Kendra wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:47 pm

As I predicted. McCarthy’s weakness and lack of integrity in dealing with Santos will cost them a few other seats in 2024. And the NY GOP knows it.

Ben-Prime wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 1:37 pm

Kendra wrote: ↑Mon Mar 06, 2023 8:47 pm https: //twitter.com/RonFilipkowski/status/1632835478234845189

Plot Twist: It was a Hydrox, not even a real Oreo.

George Santos masterminded 2017 ATM fraud, former roommate tells feds
“Santos taught me how to skim card information and how to clone cards,” Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha, who was convicted of felony access device fraud, said Wednesday in a sworn declaration submitted to the FBI.
By JACQUELINE SWEET 03/09/2023 05:49 PM EST

NEW YORK – Rep. George Santos orchestrated a 2017 credit card skimming operation in Seattle, the man who was convicted of the fraud and deported to Brazil said in a sworn declaration submitted to federal authorities Wednesday. “I am coming forward today to declare that the person in charge of the crime of credit card fraud when I was arrested was George Santos / Anthony Devolder,” Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha wrote in the declaration. It was sent by express mail and email to the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service New York office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York, according to a copy of the receipt from the United States Postal Service. Telha decided to contact law enforcement officials after seeing the newly minted congressman on television, he said in the declaration.
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“Santos taught me how to skim card information and how to clone cards. He gave me all the materials and taught me how to put skimming devices and cameras on ATM machines,” Trelha said in the declaration that was submitted to authorities by his New York attorney, Mark Demetropoulos. POLITICO obtained a copy of the declaration. Spokespeople for the FBI did not return messages. Representatives for the Secret Service and the U.S. Attorney’s Office declined to comment. A lawyer for Santos also did not respond to emails and text messages for comment.

Trelha and Santos met in the fall of 2016 on a Facebook group for Brazilians living in Orlando, Fla., he said in the declaration and in an interview with POLITICO. By November, Trelha had rented a room in Santos’ Winter Park, Fla., apartment, according to a copy of the lease viewed by POLITICO. “That is when and where I learned from him how to clone ATM and credit cards,” Trelha wrote in the declaration that was translated from his native Portuguese. Santos kept a warehouse on Kirkman Road in Orlando to store the skimming equipment, according to the declaration. “He had a lot of material — parts, printers, blank ATM and credit cards to be painted and engraved with stolen account and personal information. “Santos gave me at his warehouse, some of the parts to illegally skim credit card information. Right after he gave me the card skimming and cloning machines, he taught me how to use them,” Trelha wrote. Trelha then flew out to Seattle where he was caught on a security camera removing a skimming device from a Chase ATM on Pike Street, according to law enforcement records. He was arrested on April 27.

A spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Seattle previously told POLITICO it’s not unusual for credit card thieves to go far from home to nab numbers so there’s less chance of the stolen numbers being traced back to the perpetrators. That spokesperson, Emily Langlie, said she didn’t have any information about Santos’ involvement in the Trelha case. At the time of his arrest, Trelha had a fake Brazilian ID card and 10 suspected fraudulent cards in his hotel room, according to police documents. An empty FedEx package police found in his rental car was sent from the Winter Park unit he shared with Santos. Trelha told federal authorities in the declaration Wednesday that his “deal with Santos was 50% for him and 50% for me.” “We used a computer to be able to download the information on the pieces. We also used an external hard drive to save the filming, because the skimmer took the information from the card, and the camera took the password,” he wrote. “It didn’t work out so well, because I was arrested,” he admitted.

orlylicious wrote: ↑Thu Mar 09, 2023 9:00 pm New episode of "That Darn Kitara!" Kitara 2024!!

George Santos masterminded 2017 ATM fraud, former roommate tells feds
“Santos taught me how to skim card information and how to clone cards,” Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha, who was convicted of felony access device fraud, said Wednesday in a sworn declaration submitted to the FBI.
By JACQUELINE SWEET 03/09/2023 05:49 PM EST

NEW YORK – Rep. George Santos orchestrated a 2017 credit card skimming operation in Seattle, the man who was convicted of the fraud and deported to Brazil said in a sworn declaration submitted to federal authorities Wednesday. “I am coming forward today to declare that the person in charge of the crime of credit card fraud when I was arrested was George Santos / Anthony Devolder,” Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha wrote in the declaration. It was sent by express mail and email to the FBI, the U.S. Secret Service New York office and the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Eastern District of New York, according to a copy of the receipt from the United States Postal Service. Telha decided to contact law enforcement officials after seeing the newly minted congressman on television, he said in the declaration.
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More: https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/0 ... s-00086417

Declaration: https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000186 ... ff6b220000

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 9:14 am I wonder if this actually matches up with the bio of Santos. Was he in the Seattle area at the time?

Yeah - they are both Brazilian origins - but one also could think of some well heeled Republican attempting to force dear George off his House seat.

RTH10260 wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 9:14 am I wonder if this actually matches up with the bio of Santos. Was he in the Seattle area at the time?

Yeah - they are both Brazilian origins - but one also could think of some well heeled Republican attempting to force dear George off his House seat.

George Santos lied to a judge in 2017 bid to help a ‘family friend’ charged with fraud
POLITICO obtained an audio recording of the proceeding where Santos falsely says he worked for Goldman Sachs.

By JACQUELINE SWEET
02/24/2023 12:56 PM EST

NEW YORK — George Santos lied to a Seattle judge about working for Goldman Sachs while speaking at a 2017 bail hearing for a “family friend” who later pleaded guilty to fraud in an ATM skimming scheme, according to an audio recording of the proceeding and court records.

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/02/2 ... d-00084341

Azastan wrote: ↑Fri Mar 10, 2023 1:35 pm We already know that George Santos was in Seattle, because he lied, under oath, about being employed at Goldman Sachs.

NEW: US Secret Service tells
@ABC
News it is reviewing the sworn statement from alleged ex Santos roommate who accused the Congressman of orchestrating a credit card skimming operation,
@AaronKatersky
reports

USSS provided the following statement:

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:55 am

The dude's father named him after his favorite wine. 'Course, lots of hippies named their kids Crystal, so that was a thing.

Foggy wrote: ↑Sat Mar 11, 2023 9:55 am . P Ll

Princess foofypants gave me a bottle of Quarles Harris Port in October 2010, and I still have not opened it.