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Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:47 pm I mean George Santos has to get his beak wet. But he'll vote yes when it's required.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:51 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:47 pm I mean George Santos has to get his beak wet. But he'll vote yes when it's required.

He's got mouths of some undetermined species at home to feed.

Isgrimnur wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:51 pm

Smoove_B wrote: ↑Tue Mar 07, 2023 7:47 pm I mean George Santos has to get his beak wet. But he'll vote yes when it's required.

He's got mouths of some undetermined species at home to feed.

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.

Trelha said Santos visited him in jail in Seattle, but told him not to implicate him in the scheme.

“Santos threatened my friends in Florida that I must not say that he was my boss,” he wrote.

Trelha agreed to say he was working for someone in Brazil and not with Santos, because he was worried Santos would have his friends in Orlando deported, he said in a telephone interview last month. Trelha recalled Santos warning he could “make things worse for him” since he was already in jail and Santos was a U.S. citizen.

In an audio recording of Trelha’s May 15, 2017 arraignment in King County Superior Court, Santos tells the judge he’s a “family friend” who was there to secure a local Airbnb if the defendant was released on bail.

Santos also claimed to the judge he worked for Goldman Sachs in New York, a key part of his campaign biography he later admitted wasn’t true.

Trehla was unable to post the $75,000 bail. He pleaded guilty to felony access device fraud, served seven months in jail and was deported to Brazil in early 2018.

“Santos did not help me to get out of jail. He also stole the money that I had collected for my bail,” Trelha told federal investigators in the declaration.

Trelha told POLITICO that before flying to Seattle, Santos had traveled to Orlando to pick up $20,000 in cash he instructed Leide Oliveira Santos, another roommate, to give him from a safe. Santos had promised to hire El Chapo’s lawyer for Trelha, he said. A third roommate in the Winter Park apartment told POLITICO in a phone interview that Oliveira Santos told him Santos had come to get money for Trelha. The third roommate spoke on condition of anonymity because he was in the country as an undocumented immigrant.

But Trelha never heard from Santos after Santos visited him in Seattle, the third roommate said. He later learned from Oliveira Santos that her attempts to contact Santos over the next few months were futile.

Trelha realized he had been conned, he said, when no lawyer appeared — let alone El Chapo’s.

But he still didn’t want to name Santos as a co-conspirator, fearing retaliation against Oliveira Santos, who was also an undocumented immigrant, he said.

Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against New York Rep. George Santos, the Republican lawmaker whose astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications stunned even hardened politicos, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

Santos is expected to appear as soon as Wednesday at federal court in New York’s eastern district, where the charges have been filed under seal.

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 9:52 am Is this bad? Because this seems bad.

Thoughts and prayers.

Octavious wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 9:55 am Just the libs using the DOJ as a weapon again! Ridiculous! What about Clinton? Lincoln? My dog Toby?

Jaymann wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 9:55 am In other words, all the things Florida Man got away with.

Kraken wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 11:29 am Is Santos's seat safely R? Because there's no way McCarthy lets him go if there's any chance the Dems will win the seat.

I can't make this up.

Rep. George Santos R-NY is charged with unemployment benefits fraud.

The House is slated to vote this week on a bill to help states recover fraudulent COVID unemployment payments.

**Santos is a co-sponsor of that bill.**

Holman wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 6:02 pm He's probably a sociopath operating with no conscience. We're fortunate that his utter selfishness took the form of lying grift rather than harming others, but sociopathology isn't an excuse for any kind of crime, no matter how "white collar."

A few months back when he was interviewed and basically admitted to (some of) his lying, people noted that his attitude was open annoyance about getting caught rather than any sort of remorse for his actions. That's textbook sociopathology.

Kraken wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 9:59 pm

Holman wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 6:02 pm He's probably a sociopath operating with no conscience. We're fortunate that his utter selfishness took the form of lying grift rather than harming others, but sociopathology isn't an excuse for any kind of crime, no matter how "white collar."

A few months back when he was interviewed and basically admitted to (some of) his lying, people noted that his attitude was open annoyance about getting caught rather than any sort of remorse for his actions. That's textbook sociopathology.

I think of him as Slippin' Jimmy McGill, a two-bit grifter who's suddenly in way over his head.

Holman wrote: ↑Wed May 10, 2023 6:02 pm He's probably a sociopath operating with no conscience. We're fortunate that his utter selfishness took the form of lying grift rather than harming others, but sociopathology isn't an excuse for any kind of crime, no matter how "white collar."