{"id":1832065,"date":"2023-02-01T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2023-02-01T23:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1832065"},"modified":"2023-02-01T18:21:48","modified_gmt":"2023-02-01T23:21:48","slug":"fbi-investigating-george-santos-alleged-involvement-in-gofundme-scheme-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fbi-investigating-george-santos-alleged-involvement-in-gofundme-scheme-report\/","title":{"rendered":"FBI Investigating George Santos\u2019 Alleged Involvement In \u2018GoFundMe Scheme\u2019: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Ffbi-investigating-george-santos-alleged-involvement-in-gofundme-scheme-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=1832065&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/fbi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Enforcement of federal law<\/a> Officials are investigating Rep. George Santos (R.NY) for his involvement in an alleged scheme to rob a bank. \u201cGoFundMe scheme\u201d that was set up for a disabled U.S. Navy veteran\u2019s dog.<\/p>\n<p>Santos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2023\/02\/01\/feds-probing-santos-service-dog-charity-scheme-00080706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Telled<\/a> Politico that two FBI agents contacted Richard Osthoff, the disabled Navy veteran, as part of an investigation being conducted by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office in the Eastern District of New York.<\/p>\n<p>Osthoff claims that Santos raised $3,000 to pay for the life-saving surgery for his pit bull, and then ran away with the money. Agents were reportedly given text messages by him to Santos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m glad to get the ball rolling with the big-wigs,\u201d Osthoff stated this Wednesday. \u201cI was worried that what happened to me was too long ago to be prosecuted.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The first text messages, which were reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/oysterbay\/disabled-veteran-george-santos-took-3k-dying-dogs-gofundme\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Patch<\/a>According to reports, Santos was referred to as Anthony Devolder in the photos. He claimed that he owned a charity for pets called Friends of Pets United.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/19\/nyregion\/george-santos-ny-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> December showed that there was no proof the charity existed.<\/p>\n<p>A freshman congressman who admitted to lying about his personal and professional life is now under investigation by federal and local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the ongoing attention surrounding both my personal and campaign financial investigations, I have submitted a request to Speaker McCarthy that I be temporarily recused from my committee assignments until I am cleared,\u201d Santos <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/george-santos-releases-statement-on-stepping-down-from-committee-assignments\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a> In a statement \u201cThis was a decision that I take very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe business of the 118th Congress must continue without media fanfare,\u201d He went on. \u201cIt is important that I primarily focus on serving the constituents of New York\u2019s Third Congressional District and providing federal level representation without distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Santos has already\u00a0<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 also admitted that he lied about working at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Santos also admitted to embellishing details about his personal life and religion as well as his sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/02\/nyregion\/george-santos-brazil.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Earlier this month, Brazilian law enforcement officers were interviewed. \u201cintend to revive fraud charges\u201d Santos was charged in connection to an incident that occurred in 2008, involving a checkbook that was allegedly taken.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal law enforcement officials are reportedly investigating Rep. George Santos (R-NY) over his alleged involvement in a \u201cGoFundMe scheme\u201d that was set up for a disabled U.S. Navy veteran\u2019s dog. Santos told Politico that two FBI agents contacted Richard Osthoff, the disabled Navy veteran, as part of an investigation being conducted by the U.S. Attorney\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1832068,"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":[4038,5591,5811,14142,4055,6998,3819,12040,8020],"class_list":["post-1832065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-alleged","tag-fbi","tag-george","tag-gofundme","tag-investigating","tag-involvement","tag-report","tag-santos","tag-scheme"],"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\/1832065","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=1832065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1832065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1832068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1832065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1832065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1832065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}