Republican Congressman-elect is a total charlatan with an entirely fake résumé

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A guy who didn’t pay multiple landlords, bounced bad checks, had a fake charity that just hovered up donations for personal expenses, no money to his name…..then suddenly he gets $750K salary and a “dividend” of $1m-$5m from a phony consulting company he owns with no clients in the months leading up to the general election.

Who owns Santos? This is disgusting.

The FTX guys gave him a lot of money, because of course.

https://www.theleaderonline.com/single-post/the-golden-age-of-the-grifter

Now I'm just laughing!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The bottom line here is that there will probably be a resignation and a special election in which the Democrat candidate will win. So that will get it to 221 to 214. It seems like there are at least 3 potential moderate GOP members who will switch parties. 218-217. Then there will be resignations and Dem special election flips. You heard it here first: Dems will be back in control of the House prior to the ‘24 election.

Seems to me that all of the 5 elected on Long Island are this corrupt. NYT will smoke em ALL out!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why journalism is important, kids. Also, where was the Democratic Party opposition research? Red lights were blinking everywhere - https://dccc.org/the-case-against-george-santos/

Really nice to learn about this a month AFTER the election.

What stupid, lazy F**ks are staffing the NYT these days.

Dan Diamond with the Washington Post has an interesting read on this, I think it’s that reporters are busy looking at the big picture and not on the little details? The tiny local paper had suspicions but not enough reach or funds to dig into everything.

“The Santos story unfolded on Long Island, in the shadow of the nation's largest city. His district is a 45-minute car drive from Brooklyn, which surely ranks high for U.S. journalists per capita.

And Santos' problems did get flagged by local media, as Semafor reports. It's just that no one followed up on the breadcrumbs.

Via Semafor:

The Leader, a local news outlet that covers Long Island’s North Shore, reported Santos’ filings in 2020 were $5,000 and then leaped to $11 million. The article quoted an anonymous Republican leader asking: “Are we being played as extras in 'The Talented Mr Santos'?"

I didn’t think that was interesting.

Eh, maybe I will listen to any reporter who can possibly explain how this giant blunder happened in hopes of it not happening again.

What are the actual odds that all this was missed prior to him winning? None. Nada. And there's a dossier no less.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why journalism is important, kids. Also, where was the Democratic Party opposition research? Red lights were blinking everywhere - https://dccc.org/the-case-against-george-santos/

Really nice to learn about this a month AFTER the election.

What stupid, lazy F**ks are staffing the NYT these days.

Dan Diamond with the Washington Post has an interesting read on this, I think it’s that reporters are busy looking at the big picture and not on the little details? The tiny local paper had suspicions but not enough reach or funds to dig into everything.

“The Santos story unfolded on Long Island, in the shadow of the nation's largest city. His district is a 45-minute car drive from Brooklyn, which surely ranks high for U.S. journalists per capita.

And Santos' problems did get flagged by local media, as Semafor reports. It's just that no one followed up on the breadcrumbs.

Via Semafor:

The Leader, a local news outlet that covers Long Island’s North Shore, reported Santos’ filings in 2020 were $5,000 and then leaped to $11 million. The article quoted an anonymous Republican leader asking: “Are we being played as extras in 'The Talented Mr Santos'?"

I didn’t think that was interesting.

Eh, maybe I will listen to any reporter who can possibly explain how this giant blunder happened in hopes of it not happening again.

What are the actual odds that all this was missed prior to him winning? None. Nada. And there's a dossier no less.

There were places that had confirmed pieces - the local North Shore paper, the Daily Beast, but no one had confirmed the whole panoply of crazy. That takes time.

[Anonymous]

The Santos campaign website references his mother bring the “first female executive at a major financial institution” who was “in her office in the South Tower [on 9/11]” and “survived the horrific events of that day, but unfortunately passed away a few years later.”

https://georgeforny.com/about/

She died on December 23, 2016.

https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/woodside-ny/fatima-devolder-7225765

Her obituary simultaneously states she was born on December 22, 1962, and she was 64 at the time of her death. This seems problematic assuming a passing familiarity with basic math.

Setting aside the perplexing of Jewish Ukrainians naming their daughter “Fatima Caruso,” with a surname of “Devolder,” what is the likelihood of parents fleeing Ukraine for Belgium and then emigrating to Brazil during WWII would guve birth to a daughter in 1962?

But George Anthony, ever the dutiful son, looked to cover her funeral through GoFundMe: the organizer is identified as “Anthony Devolver” and the beneficiary as “Anthony D. Santos.”

https://www.gofundme.com/f/funeral-e-memorial-fatima-devolder

More curiously, Fatima — despite her budding career as a financial executive — was a nurse in Brazil in 2009 at the time George was stealing a checkbook from one of her patients.

[Anonymous]

Fatima’s Jewish-Ukrainian parents, by way of Belgium, were named Paul and Rosalina Devolder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A guy who didn’t pay multiple landlords, bounced bad checks, had a fake charity that just hovered up donations for personal expenses, no money to his name…..then suddenly he gets $750K salary and a “dividend” of $1m-$5m from a phony consulting company he owns with no clients in the months leading up to the general election.

Who owns Santos? This is disgusting.

The FTX guys gave him a lot of money, because of course.

https://www.theleaderonline.com/single-post/the-golden-age-of-the-grifter

Now I'm just laughing!

Whoa, hold up. He was bank rolled by FTX? I thought they sponsored D candidates?

FTX has a super weird timeline if you look into it. They went from nothing to being a Formula 51 sponsor and in talks to have naming rights to an arena in mere months. There are already a lot of questions about FTX but I havent seen any press delve into their implausible timeline yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why journalism is important, kids. Also, where was the Democratic Party opposition research? Red lights were blinking everywhere - https://dccc.org/the-case-against-george-santos/

Really nice to learn about this a month AFTER the election.

What stupid, lazy F**ks are staffing the NYT these days.

Dan Diamond with the Washington Post has an interesting read on this, I think it’s that reporters are busy looking at the big picture and not on the little details? The tiny local paper had suspicions but not enough reach or funds to dig into everything.

“The Santos story unfolded on Long Island, in the shadow of the nation's largest city. His district is a 45-minute car drive from Brooklyn, which surely ranks high for U.S. journalists per capita.

And Santos' problems did get flagged by local media, as Semafor reports. It's just that no one followed up on the breadcrumbs.

Via Semafor:

The Leader, a local news outlet that covers Long Island’s North Shore, reported Santos’ filings in 2020 were $5,000 and then leaped to $11 million. The article quoted an anonymous Republican leader asking: “Are we being played as extras in 'The Talented Mr Santos'?"

I didn’t think that was interesting.

Eh, maybe I will listen to any reporter who can possibly explain how this giant blunder happened in hopes of it not happening again.

It wasn’t a “blunder.” Choices were made that resulted in oppo - at least some of which was confirmed before the election - not being published. That was a choice to not release anything till after the election.

[Anonymous]

So the Devolder Organization, an entity that does not exist because it never filed the requisite annual report in Florida, and does not appear to have any real estate holdings, purportedly paid him $1.5 million between 2021 and 2022, and then he turned around and loaned his campaign $600,000, but failed to disclose this loan on his Personal Financial Discloure filed with the House?

[Anonymous]

This is where the Dems agree not to run anyone in the special election, in exchange for the GOP agreeing to toss him on his ass/refusing to seat him. He’d probably get convicted of some felony or another in the next two years, so why not rip the band aids off now?

I mean on some level he might be useful as an ongoing festering sore, but if he’s an outright Russian asset, he shouldn’t be anywhere near Capitol Hill… ever.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why journalism is important, kids. Also, where was the Democratic Party opposition research? Red lights were blinking everywhere - https://dccc.org/the-case-against-george-santos/

Really nice to learn about this a month AFTER the election.

What stupid, lazy F**ks are staffing the NYT these days.

Dan Diamond with the Washington Post has an interesting read on this, I think it’s that reporters are busy looking at the big picture and not on the little details? The tiny local paper had suspicions but not enough reach or funds to dig into everything.

“The Santos story unfolded on Long Island, in the shadow of the nation's largest city. His district is a 45-minute car drive from Brooklyn, which surely ranks high for U.S. journalists per capita.

And Santos' problems did get flagged by local media, as Semafor reports. It's just that no one followed up on the breadcrumbs.

Via Semafor:

The Leader, a local news outlet that covers Long Island’s North Shore, reported Santos’ filings in 2020 were $5,000 and then leaped to $11 million. The article quoted an anonymous Republican leader asking: “Are we being played as extras in 'The Talented Mr Santos'?"

I didn’t think that was interesting.

Eh, maybe I will listen to any reporter who can possibly explain how this giant blunder happened in hopes of it not happening again.

It wasn’t a “blunder.” Choices were made that resulted in oppo - at least some of which was confirmed before the election - not being published. That was a choice to not release anything till after the election.

No reputable media organization is going to run with opposition research without independently verifying every bit of it. And every bit of what reporters and researchers find is then reviewed by lawyers to make sure they can’t be sued for it.

There is often conflict between reporters who want to publish, and lawyers who say it’s not airtight enough yet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why journalism is important, kids. Also, where was the Democratic Party opposition research? Red lights were blinking everywhere - https://dccc.org/the-case-against-george-santos/

Really nice to learn about this a month AFTER the election.

What stupid, lazy F**ks are staffing the NYT these days.

Dan Diamond with the Washington Post has an interesting read on this, I think it’s that reporters are busy looking at the big picture and not on the little details? The tiny local paper had suspicions but not enough reach or funds to dig into everything.

“The Santos story unfolded on Long Island, in the shadow of the nation's largest city. His district is a 45-minute car drive from Brooklyn, which surely ranks high for U.S. journalists per capita.

And Santos' problems did get flagged by local media, as Semafor reports. It's just that no one followed up on the breadcrumbs.

Via Semafor:

The Leader, a local news outlet that covers Long Island’s North Shore, reported Santos’ filings in 2020 were $5,000 and then leaped to $11 million. The article quoted an anonymous Republican leader asking: “Are we being played as extras in 'The Talented Mr Santos'?"

I didn’t think that was interesting.

Eh, maybe I will listen to any reporter who can possibly explain how this giant blunder happened in hopes of it not happening again.

What are the actual odds that all this was missed prior to him winning? None. Nada. And there's a dossier no less.

There were places that had confirmed pieces - the local North Shore paper, the Daily Beast, but no one had confirmed the whole panoply of crazy. That takes time.

And the Grey Lady was allowed to break this whole news story? Please!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why journalism is important, kids. Also, where was the Democratic Party opposition research? Red lights were blinking everywhere - https://dccc.org/the-case-against-george-santos/

Really nice to learn about this a month AFTER the election.

What stupid, lazy F**ks are staffing the NYT these days.

Dan Diamond with the Washington Post has an interesting read on this, I think it’s that reporters are busy looking at the big picture and not on the little details? The tiny local paper had suspicions but not enough reach or funds to dig into everything.

“The Santos story unfolded on Long Island, in the shadow of the nation's largest city. His district is a 45-minute car drive from Brooklyn, which surely ranks high for U.S. journalists per capita.

And Santos' problems did get flagged by local media, as Semafor reports. It's just that no one followed up on the breadcrumbs.

Via Semafor:

The Leader, a local news outlet that covers Long Island’s North Shore, reported Santos’ filings in 2020 were $5,000 and then leaped to $11 million. The article quoted an anonymous Republican leader asking: “Are we being played as extras in 'The Talented Mr Santos'?"

I didn’t think that was interesting.

Eh, maybe I will listen to any reporter who can possibly explain how this giant blunder happened in hopes of it not happening again.

It wasn’t a “blunder.” Choices were made that resulted in oppo - at least some of which was confirmed before the election - not being published. That was a choice to not release anything till after the election.

Is oppo the new buzz word?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:A guy who didn’t pay multiple landlords, bounced bad checks, had a fake charity that just hovered up donations for personal expenses, no money to his name…..then suddenly he gets $750K salary and a “dividend” of $1m-$5m from a phony consulting company he owns with no clients in the months leading up to the general election.

Who owns Santos? This is disgusting.

The FTX guys gave him a lot of money, because of course.

https://www.theleaderonline.com/single-post/the-golden-age-of-the-grifter

Now I'm just laughing!

Whoa, hold up. He was bank rolled by FTX? I thought they sponsored D candidates?

FTX has a super weird timeline if you look into it. They went from nothing to being a Formula 51 sponsor and in talks to have naming rights to an arena in mere months. There are already a lot of questions about FTX but I havent seen any press delve into their implausible timeline yet.

Check the FTX thread, SBF said in an interview that he gave just as much money to Republicans as Democrats, but the Republicans got dark money. And Ryan Salame only gave to Republicans.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is why journalism is important, kids. Also, where was the Democratic Party opposition research? Red lights were blinking everywhere - https://dccc.org/the-case-against-george-santos/

Really nice to learn about this a month AFTER the election.

What stupid, lazy F**ks are staffing the NYT these days.

Dan Diamond with the Washington Post has an interesting read on this, I think it’s that reporters are busy looking at the big picture and not on the little details? The tiny local paper had suspicions but not enough reach or funds to dig into everything.

“The Santos story unfolded on Long Island, in the shadow of the nation's largest city. His district is a 45-minute car drive from Brooklyn, which surely ranks high for U.S. journalists per capita.

And Santos' problems did get flagged by local media, as Semafor reports. It's just that no one followed up on the breadcrumbs.

Via Semafor:

The Leader, a local news outlet that covers Long Island’s North Shore, reported Santos’ filings in 2020 were $5,000 and then leaped to $11 million. The article quoted an anonymous Republican leader asking: “Are we being played as extras in 'The Talented Mr Santos'?"

I didn’t think that was interesting.

Eh, maybe I will listen to any reporter who can possibly explain how this giant blunder happened in hopes of it not happening again.

It wasn’t a “blunder.” Choices were made that resulted in oppo - at least some of which was confirmed before the election - not being published. That was a choice to not release anything till after the election.

Is oppo the new buzz word?

It’s short for opposition research and has been for a long time.