{"id":1793317,"date":"2023-01-03T07:49:46","date_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:49:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1793317"},"modified":"2023-01-03T07:50:10","modified_gmt":"2023-01-03T12:50:10","slug":"brazil-reviving-criminal-charges-against-republican-congressman-elect-george-santos-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/brazil-reviving-criminal-charges-against-republican-congressman-elect-george-santos-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil Revises Criminal Charges Against Republican Senator-Elect George Santos:"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fbrazil-reviving-criminal-charges-against-republican-congressman-elect-george-santos-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1793317&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Representative-elect George Santos (R.NY) will be sworn in Tuesday as he is under investigation by federal- and local-level officials for false claims he made on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/02\/nyregion\/george-santos-brazil.html\">reported<\/a> Brazil&#8217;s law enforcement officials were in Brazil over the weekend \u201cintend to revive fraud charges\u201d Santos is being held responsible for an incident in 2008 which involved a checkbook that was stolen.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the case was suspended as law enforcement couldn&#8217;t find him. Brazilian prosecutors will now request that the Department of Justice notify Santos of these charges.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Santos was 19 when he entered a small clothing shop and spent $700 using his stolen checkbook and false name. According to reports, he admitted to the fraud via a Brazilian social media site in the year that followed.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, he and his mother admitted to police that they had stolen the checkbook in order to make fraudulent purchases. Although Santos was charged with the crime the following year, he was already living in the United States and had left the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Santos cannot be contacted by U.S. or Brazilian officials at this stage. However, this could change if the case progresses. Santos could be sentenced to up to half of a decade in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n<p>Santos has already <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-rep-elect-who-made-false-statements-about-career-personal-life-admits-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a>\u00a0He admitted that he lied about his claims that he worked at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, as well as that he didn&#8217;t graduate from college. Santos also admitted that he embellished details of his private life, his religion and his sexuality. He said however that these controversies would never detract his duties.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">\u201cI am not a criminal,\u201d Santos claimed. \u201cThis will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">Long Island&#8217;s local prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/prosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-republican-george-santos-for-allegedly-lying-about-his-background\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a> They opened an investigation into Santos late last month, following the scandal.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">\u201cThe numerous fabrications and inconsistencies associated with Congressman-Elect Santos are nothing short of stunning,\u201d said Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">\u201cThe residents of Nassau County and other parts of the third district must have an honest and accountable representative in Congress,\u201d She continued. \u201cNo one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">The day after the local prosecutors <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/congress\/federal-prosecutors-open-investigation-rep-elect-george-santos-congres-rcna63657\">announced<\/a> Federal prosecutors in New York confirmed that the Santos investigation was ongoing and they had also initiated a criminal investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) will be sworn into office Tuesday while under investigation by federal and local-level officials related to false claims that he made while on the campaign trail. The New York Times reported over the weekend that law enforcement officials in Brazil \u201cintend to revive fraud charges\u201d against Santos stemming from an incident &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1793320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4403,4035,3977,6202,5811,3911,10596,12040,12971,6195],"class_list":["post-1793317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-brazil","tag-charges","tag-criminal","tag-daily","tag-george","tag-republican","tag-revises","tag-santos","tag-senator-elect","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1793317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1793317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1793320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1793317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1793317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1793317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}