{"id":141102,"date":"2023-05-10T11:38:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:38:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=141102"},"modified":"2023-05-10T11:38:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T15:38:22","slug":"george-santos-taken-into-federal-custody-to-appear-before-federal-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=141102","title":{"rendered":"George Santos taken into federal custody, to appear before federal judge"},"content":{"rendered":"

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George Santos has been mentioned several times<\/a> here. The federal indictment against Santos has been unsealed ahead of his appearance in a federal court. Santos has been indicted on 13 counts including wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, as well as false statements made to the House of Representatives. As of this posting, George Santos is at the federal courthouse.<\/p>\n

From Fox News:<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

A 13-count indictment was made public Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging the congressman with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n

The indictment was returned Tuesday under seal by a federal grand jury sitting in Central Islip, New York. Santos was arrested Wednesday morning and will be arraigned in the afternoon before U.S. Magistrate Judge Arlene R. Lindsay at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York. He currently is being held at that federal courthouse.<\/p>\n

“This indictment seeks to hold Santos accountable for various alleged fraudulent schemes and brazen misrepresentations,” U.S. Attorney Breon Peace said in a statement. “Taken together, the allegations in the indictment charge Santos with relying on repeated dishonesty and deception to ascend to the halls of Congress and enrich himself. He used political contributions to line his pockets, unlawfully applied for unemployment benefits that should have gone to New Yorkers who had lost their jobs due to the pandemic, and lied to the House of Representatives. My Office and our law enforcement partners will continue to aggressively root out corruption and self-dealing from our community’s public institutions and hold public officials accountable to the constituents who elected them.”<\/p>\n

Santos, who also goes by Anthony Devolder, unsuccessfully ran in 2020 to represent New York’s Third Congressional District but was victorious his second time around in 2022. He was sworn in on Jan. 7, 2023, a mere days after the New York Times exposed that Santos allegedly fabricated larges swathes of his resume, including that he had worked for two major Wall Street firms, graduated from Baruch College and had descended from a Holocaust survivor. The Times reported Santos was also facing pending fraud charges in his native Brazil.<\/p>\n

In January, the local Nassau County GOP demanded Santos resign, namely taking issue with the freshman congressman lying over his Jewish ancestry, but he refused. And House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, hanging onto a narrow Republican majority, said Santos would be removed if a House Ethics probe revealed he violated campaign finance laws.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Fox News has the rest of the story and photographs here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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