Rep. George Santos' mystery bail backers to be revealed at noon

3 years ago by Aesculapius to c/politics

Santos, the scandal-plagued freshman Republican congressman from New York, was indicted on 13 counts including money laundering and wire fraud.
st3ph3n 30 points 3 years ago

/taps watch...

edit: the news story updated. It was his dad and his aunt. Meh. I wonder where they got the $500k from, though...

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comedy 22 points 3 years ago

It was his family, but why did he fight so hard to conceal that fact? Where did they get the money?

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QHC 11 points 3 years ago

I will be surprised if we don't find out soon that neither of his family members were themselves aware of these loans.

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assclapcalamity 5 points 3 years ago

lmao send your weird nephew to congress and bail him out of jail money?

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dipbeneaththelasers 2 points 3 years ago

Has Bank of America created a high yield savings account for this yet?

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assclapcalamity 1 point 3 years ago

nope that was chase manhattan

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BigMcLargeHuge 3 points 3 years ago

@comedy @Aesculapius

Hey!

How about we grant the benefit of the doubt to, ex-Astronaut, 14-time Nobel prize winner, 23-time Olympic Gold Medalist, Iraq War Fighter Ace, George Santos and his family.

Per the subject himself, they somehow didn't want it to be known that they bailed out a modern. fucking. hero. like George Santos.

Their thinking is a conundrum, to be sure.

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assclapcalamity 10 points 3 years ago

the answer is his dad and his aunt. smells like bad fish and probably is, but there's nothing here.

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Jaysyn 9 points 3 years ago

I guess he lied about rather going to jail than releasing those names, too.

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BarrierWithAshes 8 points 3 years ago

Any bets on who it is? Russia seems like the one but that's too boring. I'm betting it was the Brazilian government, that he's a Bolsanaro puppet somehow.

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assclapcalamity 4 points 3 years ago

his family. honestly, if i were feeling pursued by basically everyone, I would try to keep my fam out of it.

George Santos, OTOH. Holy heck what a piece of work.

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Grumps 4 points 3 years ago

if i were feeling pursued by basically everyone, I would try to keep my fam out of it.

That's my read. And, why I'm not really keen on personally going down the path of, "but where did they get the money!?!". Considering it's Santos, it's probably all sketchy, but dragging arbitrary family members of shitty people through the mud just 'cause doesn't sound like who I want to be.

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Flaky_Fish69 3 points 3 years ago

The only concern I have is if they’re straw donors with somebody else providing them the assets

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