https://www.aol.com/news/us-rep-george-s...53094.html
Sounds like a bit of a scam artist, but you really can't believe MSM. Sadly, you can't believe the DOJ anymore. Notice how all of this stuff is him being accused, not convicted of anything. So is it anymore than the fictional Kavanaugh rape parties? Also says he is being charged for raising campaign funds and using them for personal expenses, but unless it was excessive, that is exactly what every single congressman does.

"...In a financial disclosure form, Santos had reporting making $750,000 a year plus dividends from a family company, the Devolder Organization. He later described that business as a broker for sales of luxury items like yachts and aircraft. The business was incorporated in Florida shortly after Santos stopped working as a salesman for a company accused by federal authorities of operating an illegal Ponzi scheme....


Santos has faced criminal investigations before.

When he was 19, he was the subject of a criminal investigation in Brazil over allegations he used stolen checks to buy items at a clothing shop. Brazilian authorities said they have reopened the case.

In 2017, Santos was charged with theft in Pennsylvania after authorities said he used thousands of dollars in fraudulent checks to buy puppies from dog breeders. That case was dismissed after Santos claimed his checkbook had been stolen, and that someone else had taken the dogs...."

(05-10-2023 09:37 AM)bww Wrote:  this is for less than $600 twice. Good job DOJ!

Doesn’t matter and they really don’t care. What they care about is arresting a republican on Capitol Hill while the republicans are having their press conference. The DOJ is filthy corrupt.

(05-10-2023 12:06 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  

(05-10-2023 09:37 AM)bww Wrote:  this is for less than $600 twice. Good job DOJ!

Doesn’t matter and they really don’t care. What they care about is arresting a republican on Capitol Hill while the republicans are having their press conference. The DOJ is filthy corrupt.

Don't forget lying to Congress and campaign finance fraud.

This is to counter the Biden crime family news conference. It’s to show that they are still in charge

(05-10-2023 12:15 PM)tennis2k4 Wrote:  

(05-10-2023 12:06 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  

(05-10-2023 09:37 AM)bww Wrote:  this is for less than $600 twice. Good job DOJ!

Doesn’t matter and they really don’t care. What they care about is arresting a republican on Capitol Hill while the republicans are having their press conference. The DOJ is filthy corrupt.

Don't forget lying to Congress and campaign finance fraud.

Well as far as lying to congress goes, when is Garland going to arrest himself? And half the rest of this administration.
THIS IS CLASSIC DISTRACTION. PLAIN AND SIMPLE. The guy may be guilty as hell but his guilt is being used as a political ploy. Much like about everything thing else this filthy dirty DOJ is doing.

You guys have been talking about arresting drag queens for months.

They finally arrested a drag queen.

Bidens gestapo doing work

(05-10-2023 12:29 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Bidens gestapo doing work

Against someone everyone can agree deserves it.

I could be wrong but Santos strikes me as a guy who won't do well in prison.

FBI Used Congressional Staff as Confidential Informants and Human Assets to Build Case Against Congressman George Santos

Quote:Congressman George Santos was indicted on thirteen counts of wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and lying on financial disclosure forms during his short period in Congress. He was taken into custody Wednesday in New York [DETAILS].

By most accounts and even his own words, Santos is a generally sketchy person, and I doubt there will be too many defenders of his character or the issues at stake. However, all of that said, this Tweet from a staffer in his office is wild:



The casual nature of this is quite alarming. It was not that long ago when the EXECUTIVE branch, using confidential human sources to investigate the LEGISLATIVE branch, would have been a matter of incredible controversy reserved for only the most serious of criminal possibilities.

An FBI informant penetrating the congressional office to relay information back to the FBI is quite remarkable. However, it appears we are in an era of justice administration where anything is just flippantly asserted inside the mechanisms of government.

In the big picture, beyond the selfish issues of George Santos, when we consider the Fourth Branch of Government operating to protect itself against sunlight and scrutiny, this example of the FBI operating in the shadows of congress should start to make everyone uncomfortable. How can there be “checks” and balances, when the enforcement mechanisms can be deployed against any entity who threatens the system itself?

Extend this approach to legislative committee oversight, and you start to see how the system protects itself. A reminder below of what they are ultimately protecting.


Read this as many times as needed to contemplate the nature of our problem.

Former FBI Director James Comey openly admitted to Congress on March 20, 2017, how the FBI, FBI Counterintelligence Division, DOJ and DOJ-National Security Division, together with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the CIA, had been conducting independent investigations of Donald Trump for over a year without informing Congress [the Gang of Eight]. When asked the question, Comey winced, then justified the lack of informing Go8 oversight by saying, “um, because of the sensitivity of the matter?”

Stupidly, Congress never pressed James Comey on that issue. The arrogance of Comey was astounding, and the acceptance by Congress was infuriating. However, that specific example highlighted just how politically corrupt the system had become. In essence, Team Obama usurped the entire design of congressional oversight…. and Congress just brushed it off.

This event, and everything in the background as outlined within the James Comey admission, factually happened. It is on the record, admitted and nothing about the reality of what took place is subject to conjecture or refute.

Yet somehow, we, specifically our Congress, just moved on as if what FBI Director James Comey outlined and admitted wasn’t a total usurpation of the U.S. Constitution and a collapse in the structure of our coequal branches of government.

We cannot fight our way through the issues until we first realize what lies at the root of the problem.

Barack Obama and Eric Holder did not create a weaponized DOJ and FBI; the institutions were already weaponized by the Patriot Act. What Obama and Holder did was take the preexisting system and retool it, so the weapons of government only targeted one side of the political continuum.

This point is where many people understandably get confused.

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Bet this guy was sent in as a CHR from the beginning. A planned spy by the FBI.

Wonder if they did the same to Fang Fang’s fart’r ?

This is an indication we have lost what control we thought we had as citizens. The letter of the law is gone. No matter what gin breath says.

DOJ Strategically Timed Political Arrest To Coincide With Press Conference Detailing Evidence Of Biden Corruption

Quote:Santos was officially taken into custody Wednesday morning and is expected to appear in court at 1 p.m. EST, according to Fox News.

It’s amazing how the arrest of Santos came at the exact same moment Republicans on the House Oversight Committee held a press conference documenting the Biden family’s overseas business ventures. Announced earlier this week, Wednesday morning’s presser revealed bank records showing how the Bidens and their associates created a network of more than 20 companies and received “at least $10 million … from foreign nationals’ and their related companies.”

According to the records obtained by House Republicans, most of these 20 companies were purportedly LLCs and created when Biden occupied the vice president’s office. The money trafficked to the Bidens came from several different countries, including China and Romania.

“While VP Biden was lecturing Romania on anti-corruption policies, he served as a walking billboard for his son & family to collect money. Hunter & his associates capitalized on a lucrative financial relationship with a Romanian national who was later convicted of corruption,” the House Oversight Committee revealed in a Twitter thread. “The Bidens received over $1 million for the Romania deal, with 16 of the 17 payments made during Biden’s VP term. The money stops flowing from Romania soon after Joe Biden leaves office, establishing a pattern of influence peddling.”

Despite the newsworthiness of House Republicans’ bombshell revelations, regime-approved media outlets seemingly couldn’t be bothered to cover the event. While Fox News took the Oversight Committee’s presser live, networks such as MSNBC, CNN, and even C-SPAN reportedly blacked out livestream coverage of the event.

Santos’ arrest provided a perfect excuse for outlets such as The Washington Post and The New York Times to splash their online front pages Wednesday afternoon with news of the Republican’s criminal charges, conveniently leaving no room for coverage of the Biden family’s newly detailed corruption.

Quote:It was not that long ago when the EXECUTIVE branch, using confidential human sources to investigate the LEGISLATIVE branch, would have been a matter of incredible controversy reserved for only the most serious of criminal possibilities.

Abscam comes to mind as an easy counter to the above.

Does anyone have serious issue with charging the items listed in the following? If so, which should be ignored?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/con...-and-false

(05-10-2023 04:48 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

Quote:It was not that long ago when the EXECUTIVE branch, using confidential human sources to investigate the LEGISLATIVE branch, would have been a matter of incredible controversy reserved for only the most serious of criminal possibilities.

Abscam comes to mind as an easy counter to the above.

Does anyone have serious issue with charging the items listed in the following? If so, which should be ignored?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/con...-and-false

lulz

(05-10-2023 01:02 PM)tennis2k4 Wrote:  

(05-10-2023 12:29 PM)shere khan Wrote:  Bidens gestapo doing work

Against someone everyone can agree deserves it.

I knew you were a fascist

Another reason they are now coming out as having placed CHRs in Santos’ office is the veiled threat to those at the press conference. A warning that they can come after you for anything so lay off. For example, Comey telling Trump the Russians had dirt on him and that the FBI knew it.

“You don’t mess with the intelligence community. They have 50 ways to Sunday to come after you.” Chuck Schumer.

(05-10-2023 04:35 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  DOJ Strategically Timed Political Arrest To Coincide With Press Conference Detailing Evidence Of Biden Corruption

Quote:Santos was officially taken into custody Wednesday morning and is expected to appear in court at 1 p.m. EST, according to Fox News.

It’s amazing how the arrest of Santos came at the exact same moment Republicans on the House Oversight Committee held a press conference documenting the Biden family’s overseas business ventures. Announced earlier this week, Wednesday morning’s presser revealed bank records showing how the Bidens and their associates created a network of more than 20 companies and received “at least $10 million … from foreign nationals’ and their related companies.”

According to the records obtained by House Republicans, most of these 20 companies were purportedly LLCs and created when Biden occupied the vice president’s office. The money trafficked to the Bidens came from several different countries, including China and Romania.

“While VP Biden was lecturing Romania on anti-corruption policies, he served as a walking billboard for his son & family to collect money. Hunter & his associates capitalized on a lucrative financial relationship with a Romanian national who was later convicted of corruption,” the House Oversight Committee revealed in a Twitter thread. “The Bidens received over $1 million for the Romania deal, with 16 of the 17 payments made during Biden’s VP term. The money stops flowing from Romania soon after Joe Biden leaves office, establishing a pattern of influence peddling.”

Despite the newsworthiness of House Republicans’ bombshell revelations, regime-approved media outlets seemingly couldn’t be bothered to cover the event. While Fox News took the Oversight Committee’s presser live, networks such as MSNBC, CNN, and even C-SPAN reportedly blacked out livestream coverage of the event.

Santos’ arrest provided a perfect excuse for outlets such as The Washington Post and The New York Times to splash their online front pages Wednesday afternoon with news of the Republican’s criminal charges, conveniently leaving no room for coverage of the Biden family’s newly detailed corruption.

Drain the swamp. Arresting congressmen who embezzled is draining the swamp.

Oh, you didn’t mean republicans?

(05-10-2023 04:48 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

Quote:It was not that long ago when the EXECUTIVE branch, using confidential human sources to investigate the LEGISLATIVE branch, would have been a matter of incredible controversy reserved for only the most serious of criminal possibilities.

Abscam comes to mind as an easy counter to the above.

Does anyone have serious issue with charging the items listed in the following? If so, which should be ignored?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/con...-and-false

Once again Matlock, it’s the political use of the law to project power. If the law was equally enforced no one would have a problem with anything here.
I could care less about what this guy did and was charged with but the justice department had a decision to make here. Arrest him in the middle of an important congressional press conference or just wait a couple of days. Their timing was purposeful and some stupid smart people think that’s just fine and dandy.

(05-10-2023 05:01 PM)U_of_Elvis Wrote:  

(05-10-2023 04:35 PM)CrimsonPhantom Wrote:  DOJ Strategically Timed Political Arrest To Coincide With Press Conference Detailing Evidence Of Biden Corruption

Quote:Santos was officially taken into custody Wednesday morning and is expected to appear in court at 1 p.m. EST, according to Fox News.

It’s amazing how the arrest of Santos came at the exact same moment Republicans on the House Oversight Committee held a press conference documenting the Biden family’s overseas business ventures. Announced earlier this week, Wednesday morning’s presser revealed bank records showing how the Bidens and their associates created a network of more than 20 companies and received “at least $10 million … from foreign nationals’ and their related companies.”

According to the records obtained by House Republicans, most of these 20 companies were purportedly LLCs and created when Biden occupied the vice president’s office. The money trafficked to the Bidens came from several different countries, including China and Romania.

“While VP Biden was lecturing Romania on anti-corruption policies, he served as a walking billboard for his son & family to collect money. Hunter & his associates capitalized on a lucrative financial relationship with a Romanian national who was later convicted of corruption,” the House Oversight Committee revealed in a Twitter thread. “The Bidens received over $1 million for the Romania deal, with 16 of the 17 payments made during Biden’s VP term. The money stops flowing from Romania soon after Joe Biden leaves office, establishing a pattern of influence peddling.”

Despite the newsworthiness of House Republicans’ bombshell revelations, regime-approved media outlets seemingly couldn’t be bothered to cover the event. While Fox News took the Oversight Committee’s presser live, networks such as MSNBC, CNN, and even C-SPAN reportedly blacked out livestream coverage of the event.

Santos’ arrest provided a perfect excuse for outlets such as The Washington Post and The New York Times to splash their online front pages Wednesday afternoon with news of the Republican’s criminal charges, conveniently leaving no room for coverage of the Biden family’s newly detailed corruption.

Drain the swamp. Arresting congressmen who embezzled is draining the swamp.

Oh, you didn’t mean republicans?

One swamper on borrowed time. Now let’s get rid of the king gator. You all in?

(05-10-2023 05:05 PM)Was SoMs Eagle Wrote:  

(05-10-2023 04:48 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  

Quote:It was not that long ago when the EXECUTIVE branch, using confidential human sources to investigate the LEGISLATIVE branch, would have been a matter of incredible controversy reserved for only the most serious of criminal possibilities.

Abscam comes to mind as an easy counter to the above.

Does anyone have serious issue with charging the items listed in the following? If so, which should be ignored?

https://www.justice.gov/usao-edny/pr/con...-and-false

Once again Matlock, it’s the political use of the law to project power. If the law was equally enforced no one would have a problem with anything here.
I could care less about what this guy did and was charged with but the justice department had a decision to make here. Arrest him in the middle of an important congressional press conference or just wait a couple of days. Their timing was purposeful and some stupid smart people think that’s just fine and dandy.

Let me rephrase, since you didnt answer ---

Does anyone have serious issue with charging the items listed in the following?

If so, which should be ignored?

Funny, I didnt see an answer to the above. Just a load of angst-filled ad hom crap. Care to give a real answer?

Added: By the way sparkles, I am all on board with further looks into Biden -- even more so with today's information. Just to make sure you dont go maddy poo again....