The newly elected Long Island NY Republican House member has his financail shercanery ALL over the national media….
On top of the falsehoods he’s peddled on his resume?
We now get to see his sisdewalk act to get people to invest money in things of dubious truths….
Running thru the media stoeries is the Securities and Exchange Commission….
The US Attorney in the Eastern District of NY is already on this case….
The local DA in Santos’s home county of Nassau is also on the case…
Hmmmm?
“I felt like we were in ‘Goodfellas,’ like we were in a mafia movie,” Lopez, 35, told The Washington Post. “They were like, ‘Hello, I see you are here with George, right this way.’ Bringing us to this fancy restaurant and doing all this, I felt like he was doing it to capture us.”…
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Lopez was among several people who in recent days described to The Post how Santos attempted to persuade them to invest with Harbor City. Santos worked as the company’s New York regional director for more than a year before the Securities and Exchange Commission filed suit in April 2021, alleging that the firm defrauded investors of millions of dollars in a “classic Ponzi scheme.”
Santos, the 34-year-old freshman Republican congressman from New York who lied brazenly about key aspects of his biography, has said he was unaware of any fraud by Harbor City.
Collectively, the accounts gathered by The Post offer a detailed picture of Santos’s efforts to recruit investors for Harbor City. In two instances, he inflated his own academic or professional credentials, The Post found. In addition, Zoom recordings of workplace meetings show Santos offering anecdotes about his purported interactions with wealthy people — stories disputed by those involved — for potential inclusion in marketing materials or to impress prospective clients….
Manu Raju
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Speaker McCarthy discussed the George Santos situation in closed conference meeting, telling House GOP that there is a difference between lying and committing a crime, per source in room. He also reiterated his public remark that it’s up to voters to decide Santos fate.