the year is 2022 and a man by the name of George Anthony devala Santos is running for congress in New York's thirdd congressional district that's this area of Long Island here close to a million constituents and a very wealthy area this being where the Great Gatsby was set this area is not unimportant in fact this race could actually come to define the razor thin margins that decides who will hold the House Majority until 2024 enter political newcomer George Santos he'd rocked up to the political scene in Long Island a couple of years prior running as
a house Republican in 2020 he'd lost but this area had historically leaned heavily Democrat and he was up against a political heavyweight at the time a man called Tom swazi but the year was now 2022 and this time your man Tom swazi wasn't running meaning no current incumbent and that the seat was fair game now about Santos he's chic Burberry scarves farago shoes Rayband Shades and his stapled sweater under the Blazer look Santos looks good his education only the finest he went to Horus man a 60k a year private high school before being scouted on
a volleyball scholarship to baroo college even more prestigious here he was a star volleyball player winning championships against Yale and Harvard before graduating from New York un University with a business degree in 2013 straight after college he's air dropped directly onto Wall Street where he starts working for Goldman Sachs and City Group immediately and just last year Santos was managing a $1.5 billion fund at a company called Harbor City capital not bad he'd also founded and run the nonprofit pet charity friends of pets United where he'd go on to single-handedly save over 2,000 dogs he
also has a connection to his constituents rarely seen in politics from the basement of Jackson Heights Queens to Gatsby land Santos was a true New Yorker he's half black half white and Jewish I come from a Jewish Family my mother's family Jewish uh in fact his grandparents actually survived the Holocaust because my grandparents survived the Holocaust his mom was even in the South Tower during 91 so when in 2020 the resume of this man lands on Joe Cairo the Republican Party Chairman's desk in Nassau County which the third congressional district covered about half of he
didn't think twice Santos was the man for the job and after another long uous campaign effort the third District's 2022 Congressional race is almost over and on the crisp Wednesday morning of November the 9th the votes are being counted and projections slowly materialized and it was clear Santos had won he'd got over 140,000 votes that was over 20,000 more than his opponent yikes who concedes within hours of the count our boy was in he doesn't make it a few weeks before the troubles start but first come we're going to Chernobyl stcraft X is a huge
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to confirm whether he had actually been there horis man conducted a search they scoured through Decades of their records for one George Santos however nothing the same for Baro College what and the same for NYU 2 I've never met this man in my life George Santos was nowhere to be found the same for City group and Goldman Sachs They too had never heard of the man and that $1.5 billion fund he managed well he did work for a company called Harbor City but turns out they never had more than $17 million and they're currently being
sued by the SEC for being an actual Ponzi scheme despite his claims it seems he actually attended a public Middle School in Queens and never graduated high school also when he said he was working on Wall Street fresh out of college he was actually working over in the industrial part of queens in a call center for $12 an hour some details of his time here come out Sammy please listen to the allegedly from the first day at this schol Center Santos would brag about the wealthy family he came from back in Brazil the expensive property
he' amassed in places like n and his Belgian and Jewish parents turns out both of his parents were actually Brazilian and despite his family's lavish Property Holdings they were actually odd welfare at the time and had recently been getting eviction notices he'd also apparently go around his office showing everyone his lovely holiday pictures like that amazing trip he'd just been on to Dubai one problem he wasn't actually in any of the photos and they were just some random pictures he'd found online and printed out he'd also tell people that he for their wedding dresses and
other random expenses free of charge shockingly he never followed through and after the New York Times sift through various public documents and court filings turns out there's a few issues pertaining to his campaign finances what's this one of these includes a $700,000 loan he' claimed he had made to his own campaign but later on would backtrack saying any personal loans to the campaign were not from personal funds if that money turns out to be from someone else that's a potential felony not good on the trail he also repeatedly claimed he owns a mansion in Oyster
Bay Cove as well as a mansion in the Hamptons however campaign records show that Santos was actually living in a rented terrorist house in Queens and that he'd never even lived at the address he was currently registered to vote at also he claimed on multiple occasions that he was Jewish from a jewi family turns out no no he's not joke I'm Catholic but I'm also Jewish other claims of his that his mother escaped Tower 2 during 911 my mom was a 911 Survivor she was in the South Tower um and she made it out and
died from Ash related cancer this mom wasn't even in the country in 2001 also that she was the first female executive at a major financial institution she was a housekeeper at the time that she was prominent in the Republican party and a donor spanning two decades she'd never donated to any political party and was never registered to vote in New York she wasn't even a citizen at the time then there's the lovely wedding wait with a woman Santos had been openly gay for a long time and had never disclosed a marriage when signing up to
run Well turns out that after looking into marriage records he had one back in 2012 and Santos had left that little detail off of his disclosure forms despite his new wife filing her first divorce request just one year later and then using their marriage to allegedly help gain citizenship everything was above board and not dodgy at all in December 2022 he said he had experienced vandalism and assassination attempt the need for a police escort at their house for safety and a threatening letter he also claims he had his shoes stolen off his feet in the
middle of Fifth Avenue but worst of all absolutely no volleyball this was very easily verifiable as Yale who had claim to beat in a championship we went to play against Harvard Yale and we slay them never actually had a men's vity volleyball team during the 2022 race various Republican organizations also caught wind of some of this and the man was dubbed George scanos one Republican says his run wasn't a campaign more like a beach party Santos had also claimed he'd helped develop carbon capture technology with carbon capture technology that I've helped develop that fundraise for
in my career the result chaos Santos's lawyer comes out instantly gentlemen these defamatory claims are simply untrue our boy Santos is just being smeared by his enemies at the paper he says nonetheless a multitude of Investigations go ahead these include the local Long Island District Attorney's office and the New York State Attorney General's office who was looking at a number of issues Joe Cairo comes out he says these are pretty serious issues and that Santos should have probably address them that's not what he's doing in fact no one even knows where he is at the
moment his phone calls also seem to be bouncing but after a few days he decides to pick up the phone he calls Cairo and he has an explanation see the whole thing was all just one big misunderstanding he says Cairo asks about his apparently blatant lies and Santos has an answer he had graduated from barook it's just someone there probably just searched under the wrong name I guess probably he's going to hold a press conference next week and get this all LED out that never happens he does however open Twitter and get to work but
turns out his answers aren't going down well and calls to resign come flooding in from all directions he tried his best but Santos wasn't digging himself out of this and so the apology tour begins he talks to Fox News oan the New York Post and more and finally comes clean listen Lads I lied I made mistakes humans have faults I'm not a fraud or fake please give me a second chance he also admits that he embellished his resume and that he's really sorry about that it's now January 2023 new year new Santos honest clean cut
as Straight Arrow he's ready to get to work and represent his people however things start out Rocky on the second day of the year Brazilian authorities have an announcement they're Reviving a decades old case against Santos for fraud they claim that from 2008 to 2011 Santos had actually been living in Brazil with his mother during which time he'd stolen jewelry from multiple people and forged hundreds of dollars of stolen checks he'd then used that to pay for designer clothing and then dip out from the country it also turns out that Santos's own lawyer in Brazil
at the time wasn't exactly clean either he'd been charged and sentenced to 18 years in prison for a connection to a gang execution he apparently started studying law while on house arrest then the same week that case is revived a formal complaint begins to be filled in Congress demanding a house ethics investigation meaning he's now under local state federal and intern National investigation as well as a number of calls to resign this is all before he's even sworn in but forget about all of that because it's the special day and nothing was going to ruin
it in the midst of all the chaos on the 7th of January 2023 George Santos is sworn into Congress he could now finally serve his [Music] district protests erupt outside his new office in Long Island immediately demanding he resigns there's also a poll that shows that more than 70% of Republicans in his district want him out texts and calls to his cell phone are still going unanswered and he's apparently in hiding members of his own team don't even know where he is he's also dodging swarms of reporters who were peppered around the halls of Congress
looking for him 24/7 they're even holding stake outs outside of his office and it's actually stopping him from turning up naturally the media are out for blood every Outlet is after him the New York Times The Washington Post Mother Jones and more information is coming out on him constantly January 12th 2023 just 5 days after being sworn in and after lots of deliberation so Cairo has decided not to believe Santos on barook searching under the wrong name and he's now holding a press conference also calling him to resign his immediate resignation this comes as a
new report also claims that he alongside his campaign Treasurer had set up a political campaign organization where he had used his political connections to scam tens of thousands of dollars out of other Republicans running guilty or not one thing was absolutely clear here this man was not resigning he was serving his people whether they liked it or not will you resign I will not 142 people ask for me to resign I'll resign I will not resign I will be continuing to hold my office elected by the people and so he continues to act like like
a congressman he puts on the suit and he plays the part well he talks Iran and gas prices and attends meetings in votes he's having fun if he could just pretend none of this other stuff was happening then maybe it'll go away but the first few dominoes had fallen and more were on their way it's around the 12th of January that something else comes out see there's a drag queen in Brazil and they've just posted a picture of themselves with another man in drag this man is George Santos so turns out when Santos was supposedly
going to a $660,000 a year Horus man School in New York he was actually a drag queen living in Brazil and the media runs with it at one point performed drag in Brazil I've never known him as George Santos he says he's very confident Santos is the person to the right of your screen despite the multiple pictures and videos of him as a drag queen he denies he was a drag queen claiming I'm a drag queen is categorically false it is it's not though is it it's seemingly confirmed here in a now deleted 2011 Wikipedia
page on him which he'd seemingly written himself under the name Anthony dealer why would someone invent you not only that turns out according to this he'd also appeared on Hannah Montana and the Sweet Life of Zach and Cody back in the early 2000s he'd also apparently started this Hollywood career after being scouted by the big producer behind Independence Day by Steven Spielberg his first role being in the movie The Invasion in 2009 starring um Thurman and Alicia silverston that's not a movie there was a movie called The Invasion in 2007 however that features Nicole Kidman
and Daniel Craig Independence Day was never directed by Steven Spielberg the same week is the wikip IIA page is discovered a disabled military veteran comes out he says that Santos scammed him out of $3,000 in 2016 back when he was homeless turns out that Santos had set up a charity called friends of pets United back in 2013 its mission to rescue raise money for and support the well-being of dogs and other pets this is where he claimed to save over 2,000 dogs about that what he'd actually do allegedly is drive out to places like rural
Pennsylvania haggle with dog breeders hand them a bad check and then take off with the goods he'd go on to sell these puppies for hundreds a piece FEA adoption events run by his same charity he'd also apparently set up fundraising events organize some drinks get a Barbie going and then stick a $50 price tag on the ticket with the proceeds going towards something like an animal shelter however when it was time to hand over the money Santos was gone but in 2016 a homeless disabled military Veteran's dog had gotten cancer he needs a few thousand
for his dog's life saving surgery and the man he's just been recommended to help out George Santos Santos sets up a GoFundMe you look amazing it makes some waves on Facebook and eventually raises over $3,000 so Santos sends the veteran to a practice he recommends in Queens but here the surgeon he'd recommended tells him his dog tumor is inoperable so the veteran tries to claim the money and go to another vet however his calls in text to Santos and Al getting no response and the donations page has been removed from the site entirely Santos had
seemingly taken the Money and Run turns out he'd also been going under the name Anthony zovi he was eventually charged in Pennsylvania in 2017 for taking off with the unpaid dogs however he claimed that his checkbook had simply gone missing and with that he's dismissed of all charges also both the IRS and the Attorney General's office in New York and New Jersey have a look through the records and neither were able to find any evidence that friends of pets United ever actually existed at all around the same time all of this comes out one of
Santos's old roommates and queens speaks to the Press he claims that when he knew him he'd gone by the name Anthony dealer and that delusions of grandeur were abundant with Santos apparently often splashing $100 bills at bars only to end up broke in just a few days there are also claims he stole money from an aunt stole checks from a roommate stole jewelry from friends and that $500 bbery scarf of his also stolen Santos maintains that it's his scarf at this point a wealth of Santos stories were out it was almost too much to keep
track of a steady flow each week each more Preposterous than the last and on the 22nd of January Santos lands in New York so the Press pick up their cameras and head out it's go time boys they continue to stake out's office and linger around the halls of Congress snapping up any chance to ask him a question he gets quite annoyed got you guys Don donuts and coffee for all the hard work you guys do thank you so much for being here and doing your job thank you but clear the cameras love him he's also
an instant punch line on SNL All In All the month of January has been a rough one in February he continues to roll with the punches on the first day of the month he's forced to step down from every US House committee he's on basically meaning he can't play a larger role as congressman and he apologizes again saying he's deeply sorry the same day the government officially probes his friends of pet United charity a couple days after that a new audio is leaked to the press in it Santos says he lied to everyone and I've
obviously up and Li to him like I liked everyone else the same day as that it comes out that in 2021 Santos had gone around the campaign Trail telling potential donors that he was a producer on the musical Spider-Man turn off the dark this is a show that lost investors $60 million suffered a ton of legal battles and Technical problems and resulted in multiple actors seriously injured and two days after that a sexual harassment complaint is submitted by a former Aid Santos denies the allegation I did not calling it comical comical right enough is enough
Lads this guy's got to go and they filed to expel the man from Congress February not off to a great start either then the expulsion filing doesn't get very far but in March the house Ethics Committee stages a vote to investigate Santos this over the multiple allegations that he had engaged in unlawful activity during his campaign failed to disclose required information on house forms violated Federal conflict of interest laws and engaged in sexual misconduct and there's a lot on the man's plate right now the vote to investigate further is unanimous since things are going so
well in April Santos decides it's time to make an announcement lads I'm running again and his election campaign for 2024 is officially declared but on the 10th of May Santos gets a knock on the door turns out it's the feds and he's now under arrest he's slapped with 13 federal charges including seven counts of wire fraud three counts of moneya laundering one count of theft of public funds and two counts of lying to the House of Representatives see during covid George Santos had claimed some pandemic unemployment money about $24,000 worth one problem he had a
job and was on a 120k salary come on Santos had also just sponsored a bill to claw back fraudulent Co handouts meaning he just endorsed a bill targeting himself then there's his campaign funds turns out he'd used a ton of them to buy that Designer wardrobe of his and pay for credit card bills a lot of this came from two big donors who he had managed to persuade to max out contributions for for both campaigns sending $200,000 each and finally Santos is charged for defrauding donors through his political campaign organizations more on those so at
this point it was fairly established campaign Finance Regulators were a jerk especially with the help of an experienced campaign treasurer for context a campaign Treasurer gives the green light on all payments keeps records of all receipts and files all reports statements so they're quite important and very involved and he'd got himself a veteran a woman named Nancy Marx and as it turns out this campaign Treasurer has a bit of a reputation she'd done this for multiple campaigns and other clients and word on the street is she likes to secretly Bill herself thousands of dollars at
random while doing it she'd even been sued for this at one point however she won the suit anyway in May 2021 Santos goes into business with with her to form a political consulting firm in Florida called red strategies here Santos apparently uses his new friends in politics to shill Red strategies fundraising and advertising services to other Republican candidates running in New York all the while secretly not disclosing his own involvement that involvement being running the company once signed up they charged their massive fees for apparently very subpar efforts and it's gone and then profit and
turns out a lot of that profit is going directly into Santos's Pockets Santos would go on to ditch marks apparently telling her the brain cancer was back and that it'd have to go radio silent for a while he then forms Redstone strategies in 2022 with an old friend from Harbor City and after its open shop Santos's donors start to receive calls Redstone strategies had just raised 800k for Santos's campaign and they're now asking for around 700k more the guy on the other end tells them originally these calls are from a representative of the company but
eventually hello it's apparently just santos himself and that would be a bit illegal Marx has since pleaded guilty to one felon count of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to falsifying and inflating Financial numbers with Santos's help she faces 3 to four years in prison Santos then graduates to devala company here instead of trying to sell an alleged Ponzi scheme to well-off people like he was doing at Harbor City he has a brilliant idea just introduce them to other well-off people and take a fee for whatever changes hand and what better time to do
this just as he was entering politics he could be proposing these deals to a whole new class of wealth and power using this company Santos is allegedly able to negotiate the sale of a massive yacht it hasn't infinity pool a water pool and is worth around $19 million meaning Santos potentially raked in hundreds of thousands of dollars here and this was just before the election in 2022 he claims that this is his family firm and handles 80 million in assets anyway Santos's family comes together to pay off his 500k bond for the charges and on
the condition he surrenders his passport he's free to go he and his lawyer go on to shoot down each and every single charge it's a Witch Hunt Santos says it's a Witch Hunt it makes no sense he pleads not guilty and still refuses to resign following all of these charges another vote to expel Santos kicks off however this fails to pass and is instead handed over to the house Ethics Committee to investigate at this point Republican Congressman are getting very agitated what do you have to like I said if I could if I could understand
you over my colleague screaming here the reality is better here's the thing though he's not going anywhere because Republicans need him to maintain their razor thin House Majority which they hold by just four seats ooh that's kind of small so Santos is safe for now so in June it's time to kick back Santos attends a congressional baseball game where he's mbed by fans he can literally win the presidential race right now it's now August and an aid of Santos has just been charged with identity theft he allegedly impersonated the current Speaker of the house Kevin
McCarthy's Chief of Staff while fundraising nonetheless the Speaker of The house's support for Santos remains strong it's around this point that Santos also misses his financial filings deadline which he' already received a 90-day extension for October 10th and it's the feds again they're back for 10 more charges this time it's conspiracy false statements falsification of Records aggravated identity theft credit card fraud and then some more wire fraud and with the second tranch of charges another scheme of his comes to light see back when Santos was running he'd had an idea this one was simple note
down the identity and financial information of his campaign donors which they'd already given when contributing then repeatedly charge their credit cards without them knowing profit these would go into his campaign other campaigns and again directly in to his own pocket in another scheme Santos and his campaign Treasurer apparently filed reports with overinflated donations on them this could then be used to acquire financial support from the Republican party which it was more profit again he pleads not guilty to every charge and the thought of resigning doesn't even cross his mind this along with the speaker of
the house and Santos Ally Kevin McCarthy being given the boot on the 3rd of October and Santos is now considerably less I'm in danger and it's getting to him Santos starts to crack become unstable is unacceptable they should not be allow here he things are not looking good so Santos brainstorms he needs to look good wi back the court of public opinion Santos has to go that's it a baby and Santos starts walking the halls of congress with a random baby in his hand ex do not report this baby whose was it where did it
come from from no one knows but when asked he says this you said not yet as in a reference to I'm not a par I'm not there yet the 1st of November 2023 and it's time for another vote to a Santos the house needs a super majority vote of 2/3 to do it so it could really go either way here and Santos braces is for the worst however the vote goes down and turns out he' survived easily in fact 179 yes yes to 239 no looks like our boy's bulletproof he made it he won but
wait on the 16th of November the house Ethics Committee is back they'd spent the last few months scouring through records and conducting interviews and now their investigation was over and their findings handed in 170,000 pages of documents witness testimonies and Final cial statements and the verdict was in something's a bit dodgy here the revelations are numerous he'd spent $1,000 on hotels $442,000 on flights this includes flights to random places like Kansas and Memphis more than 10 trips to the high-end Manhasset shopping center $300 on an internet viral Steakhouse and countless expenditures at an Italian restaurants
and queens more about that restaurant see Santos likes this place a lot so much so that he'd spent tens of thousands of dollars here he'd also claimed to be friends with the family running it the owner's brother even contributed to his campaign it would also turn out that the same man was caught in 2019 steering a 63t yacht from the Bahamas towards Florida in an attempt to smuggle 14 undocumented Chinese migrants and a Bahamian man into the us more than $200,000 worth of currency was also found stuffed into the bedroom walls all above board something
of Interest also to note a ton of expenditures here were exactly $199.99 here's the thing if he'd spent just two pennies more he would have had to keep some form of documentation like a receipt the restaurant is also apparently donating thousands of dollars to his campaign so in essence he's giving the restaurant money via undisclosed food he's buying through his campaign and that same money is going back to the campaign he'd end up using this 100 $99 trick dozens of times in fact he ends up with more of these expenses than any other candidate in
the entire United States including at places that would be very difficult to even spend that amount like a car park where it was impossible to spend this exact amount of money Santos also used campaign funds on lip fillers Botox rent holidays makeup weight loss drugs Casino trips around a quar of a million dollars of cash withdrawals even only fans also his designer clothes compliments of the campaign too of course this includes the ferrao loice at around $700 the Cartier tank watch at around $10,000 the bbery Quilted jacket around $400 Louis Vuitton ties around $200 and
his rayb bands also around $200 to illustrate just how Brazen these violations are another us politician apparently had to go at his staff for ordering some fruit to their hotel door using campaign funds then there's Santos who was practically living in an her store all in all he'd apparently spent just around a third of his campaign Budget on Advertising this is apparently far less than normal naturally he denies a lot of this is it true that you have an only fans page and you can peel a banana with your feet I don't have one and
it's you know I'll I'll I'll indulge you this I just discover what only fans was about 3 weeks ago when it was bought up in a discussion in office and I was I was oblivious to the whole concept the filings themselves also incredibly dodgy they included multiple revisions unaccounted contributions unitemized payments totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars and hundreds of those $199 payments to Anonymous who was then removed in later filings all of this compounded with two of his campaign staff now pleading guilty for various crimes and yeah not great so Santos comes out with
an announcement Lads probably not running in 2024 sorry then on the 18th of November 2023 he looks like this towards the end of the month it's clear another expulsion vote was looming and this time it could be a lot closer so on the 29th of November Santos gives it his all in a house speech while he makes his case people fly this balloon outside the capital on the 30th Santos says he'll be holding a press conference outside the capital the next day and this time he actually does hold one having made his case inside and
outside the capital all Santos could now do was pray December the 2nd 2023 and Congress members are pulling up to the office for work today's agenda Santos now again to get this man out the house would have to vote Yes to the tune of a 2/3 super majority so this could actually go either way even with the recent Revelations but regardless the votes start coming in and eventually the results are in Santos is out he's booted out his office loses his seat in the house and banished from the capital becoming the sixth house Congressman in
history to be expelled and the first in over two decades he makes a hasty Escape in a politically divided America Democrats and Republicans managed to come together for one thing their utter disdain of this man but within a couple of days of expulsion a new account appears on Cameo it's Santos and he's now singing Taylor Swift and roasting people online for money when youed in and he's popular in fact his $75 asking price is quickly kicked up to $400 a piece it doesn't take long for him to start earning figures and eventually more money than
his congressional salary in February 2024 a special election is held to replace Santos at the time a massive blizzard hits Long Island with areas getting up to 8 in of snow but regardless tens of thousands show up to vote and on the 13th of February Tom swazi wins back his seat and this short bizarre chapter of us politics meets its end or does it yes it does [Music]
