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sterngard friegen wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 8:43 pm Bob, of course, is right. I couldn't tell during the press scrum what Santos was standing on or next to. So I couldn't shout at my TV and correct the breathless reporting.

Santos sure likes to talk.

sterngard friegen wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 8:43 pm Bob, of course, is right. I couldn't tell during the press scrum what Santos was standing on or next to. So I couldn't shout at my TV and correct the breathless reporting.

Santos sure likes to talk.

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orlylicious wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 9:02 pm

sterngard friegen wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 8:43 pm Bob, of course, is right. I couldn't tell during the press scrum what Santos was standing on or next to. So I couldn't shout at my TV and correct the breathless reporting.

Santos sure likes to talk.

Stern, did you see there's a Twitter account, "I'm a Lectern"? We follow each other. It's in your honor.

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busterbunker wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 1:21 am Man, I just come here for the jokes, not to get lecterned.

Suranis wrote: ↑Thu May 11, 2023 1:31 am I just got a pain in my Podium.

‘We’re living in madness’: George Santos’s constituents on federal charges
Residents of the congressman’s New York district say they’re fed up with a system that enables his behavior

Edward Helmore in Westbury, New York
Thu 11 May 2023 11.00 BST

“It’s like we’re living in madness,” said Danielle Gentile at a Brazilian restaurant in Long Island’s Westbury, one of a cluster of towns close to the eastern border of the fabulist Republican congressman George Santos’s third congressional district.

“I know politicians lie all the time, but you’ve got to at least try to keep up,” Gentile added. “But what’s he going to say? I didn’t mean to lie? He’s like the Brian Williams of politics.”

The hostess’s comments came just hours after Santos was hit with 13 criminal counts in federal court. The 34-year-old politician, flanked by just one defense lawyer, was pitted against five attorneys wielding the power of the government.

But Santos did not appear overly fazed, later boasting that he had surrendered earlier in the day to authorities so that his entrance to the imposing criminal justice complex would not happen “under the noses” of the media.

He pleaded not guilty to charges alleging financial fraud at the center of a political campaign built on a résumé touting his personal wealth and business success that began to unravel six weeks after he won office.

Outside the court, Santos appeared almost to relish the attention of a large number of media that gathered. He refused to answer questions until a podium was produced, and then called the investigation and the charges that followed a “witch-hunt”. He was asked if he would resign (he wouldn’t), and if he would campaign for re-election next year (he would).

But within the third congressional district, a typically Democratic suburban district north-east of New York City, the first-generation Brazilian American, who ran as a member of a “new generation of Republican leadership”, is received as a deeply oddball figure.




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George Santos co-sponsored a bill against unemployment fraud. Now, he's accused of it.

A day after New York Rep. George Santos pleaded not guilty to charges in the U.S., he signed an agreement Thursday with public prosecutors in Brazil to avoid prosecution for forging two stolen checks in 2008.

“What would have been the start of a case was ended today,” Santos’ lawyer in Brazil, Jonymar Vasconcelos, told The Associated Press in a text message. “As such, my client is no longer the subject of any case in Brazil.”

Asked about the details of the non-prosecution agreement, Vasconcelos demurred, citing the fact the case proceeded under seal. The public prosecutors’ office of Rio de Janeiro state also declined to comment when contacted by the AP.

Court records in Brazil, first uncovered by The New York Times, show Santos was the subject of a criminal charge for using two stolen checks to buy items at a shop in the city of Niteroi, including a pair of sneakers that he gifted to a friend. At the time, Santos would have been 19. The purchase totaled 2,144 Brazilian reais, then equal to about $1,350, according to the charge prosecutors filed in 2011.

That followed an investigation opened in 2008 and Santos’ signed confession, in which he admitted to having stolen the checkbook of his mother’s former employer from her purse and making purchases, including in the store, and recognizing the fraudulent checks as those he had signed, according to the court documents reviewed by the AP.

A judge accepted the charges against Santos in 2011, but subsequent subpoenas for him to appear personally or present a written defense went unanswered and, with authorities repeatedly unable to determine his whereabouts, the case was suspended in 2013. That changed after he won a U.S. congressional seat and the subsequent flurry of media attention focused on his dubious credentials. Rio state prosecutors then petitioned to reopen the case.

George Santos leaves the Capitol after voting on a border bill and an unemployment insurance fraud bill — despite being accused of UI fraud himself. And he doesn’t answer our questions about fraud he confessed to — in Brazil. http://cnn.com/2023/05/11/politics/geor ... index.html