{"id":1928183,"date":"2023-05-10T12:41:31","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T16:41:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-prosecutors-file-criminal-charges-against-george-santos-report\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T13:09:46","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T17:09:46","slug":"federal-prosecutors-file-criminal-charges-against-george-santos-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-prosecutors-file-criminal-charges-against-george-santos-report\/","title":{"rendered":"George Santos faces criminal charges filed by federal prosecutors."},"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%2Ffederal-prosecutors-file-criminal-charges-against-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=1928183&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--><h2>Breaking News: Rep. George Santos (R-NY) Faces Criminal Charges<\/h2>\n<p>The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against Rep. George Santos (R-NY), according to CNN. The charges are currently under seal, but federal prosecutors have been investigating whether Santos made false statements in <a title=\"First Attempt To Recall San Francisco D.A. Falls Short, But He Could Still Be Ousted From Office\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/first-attempt-to-recall-san-francisco-d-a-falls-short-but-he-could-still-be-ousted-from-office\/\">campaign finance filings<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>What We Know So Far<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Santos is expected to appear in New York federal court as early as Wednesday.<\/li>\n<li>The nature of the charges remains unclear.<\/li>\n<li>Federal prosecutors have been looking into the congressman\u2019s finances.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Upon being informed of the news, Santos appeared to be unaware of the charges. \u201cThat\u2019s news to me,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Santos was elected to his first term representing New York\u2019s 3rd Congressional District in the November elections, but <a title=\"George Santos <a href=\" href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-prosecutors-file-criminal-charges-against-george-santos-report\/\">faces criminal charges<\/a> filed by federal prosecutors.&#8221;>increasing scrutiny led to the freshman congressman admitting that he lied about aspects of his career and personal life. Despite calls to resign, Santos filed paperwork for a re-election bid in March and marked 100 days in office with a 2024 announcement in April.<\/p>\n<p>Kellen Curry, an Afghanistan war veteran and former vice president at JPMorgan, announced last month that he would run a GOP campaign seeking the House seat held by Santos.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story; stay tuned for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal prosecutors have reportedly filed criminal charges against Rep. George Santos (R-NY). According to CNN, which broke the news on Tuesday, Santos is expected to appear in New York federal court as early as Wednesday. The nature of the charges were not immediately clear as they remain under seal, but CNN\u2019s Evan Perez said federal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1588,"featured_media":1928184,"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":"George Santos faces criminal charges filed by federal prosecutors.","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4035,3977,3974,10297,5811,5169,12040],"class_list":["post-1928183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-charges","tag-criminal","tag-federal","tag-filed","tag-george","tag-prosecutors","tag-santos"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"George Santos faces criminal charges filed by federal prosecutors.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928183","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\/1588"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928183\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}