{"id":1928751,"date":"2023-05-11T07:25:17","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T11:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-george-santos-arrested-on-fraud-money-laundering-theft-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T07:28:04","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T11:28:04","slug":"rep-george-santos-arrested-on-fraud-money-laundering-theft-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-george-santos-arrested-on-fraud-money-laundering-theft-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. George Santos faces charges of fraud, money laundering, and theft."},"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\">22<\/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%2Frep-george-santos-arrested-on-fraud-money-laundering-theft-charges%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=1928751&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 Arrested on Federal Criminal Charges<\/h2>\n<h3>Alleged Scheme Involving Fraud, Money Laundering, and Theft of Public Funds<\/h3>\n<p>On May 10, Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was arrested on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-arrest-professor-who-smuggled-advanced-medical-equipment-to-iran\/\" title=\"Feds Arrest Professor Who Smuggled Advanced Medical Equipment to Iran\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/n-y-assemblyman-ron-kim-calls-for-gov-cuomos-impeachment\/\" title=\"N.Y. assemblyman Ron Kim calls for Gov. Cuomo\u2019s impeachment\">federal criminal charges<\/a> related<\/a> to an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rep-george-santos-arrested-on-fraud-money-laundering-theft-charges\/\" title=\"Rep. George Santos faces charges of fraud, money laundering, and theft.\">alleged scheme involving fraud<\/a>, money laundering, and theft of public funds. The 13-count indictment, unsealed on May 10, accuses Santos of defrauding prospective political supporters by laundering funds to pay for his personal expenses and illegally receiving unemployment benefits while he was employed. He is also accused of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">making false statements<\/a> to the House of Representatives about his assets, income, and liabilities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis indictment seeks to hold Santos accountable for various <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-arrested-on-federal-fraud-charges\/\" title=\"George Santos arrested for federal fraud.\">alleged fraudulent schemes<\/a> and brazen misrepresentations,\u201d said U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York Breon Peace in a statement. \u201cTaken 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.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>Charges<\/h3>\n<p>According to the Department of Justice, Santos used an LLC to deceive potential political backers during his successful congressional campaign in September 2022. Santos hired a New York political consultant to contact potential contributors and authorized them to mislead donors that their money would be used to assist in electing him to the House, including by buying TV ads, prosecutors said. Two donors allegedly transferred $25,000 to that LLC\u2019s bank account, which Santos controlled, based on these fraudulent assertions.<\/p>\n<p>The indictment also alleges that Santos moved the cash into his personal bank accounts to launder them. Santos allegedly spent much of that money on himself, using it to buy clothes, pay off debts, and transfer money.<\/p>\n<h3>Appearance in Court<\/h3>\n<p>The first-term congressman was arrested on the morning of May 10 and is due to appear at a Long Island district court in the afternoon. Santos has been under intense scrutiny for months over allegedly lying about large parts of his personal background and professional history, some of which he has admitted to fabricating.<\/p>\n<h3>Summary<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was arrested on federal criminal charges on May 10, in relation to an alleged scheme involving fraud, money laundering, and theft of public funds.<\/li>\n<li>The 13-count indictment accuses Santos of defrauding prospective political supporters by laundering funds to pay for his personal expenses and illegally receiving unemployment benefits while he was employed.<\/li>\n<li>Santos is also accused of making false statements to the House of Representatives about his assets, income, and liabilities.<\/li>\n<li>Santos used an LLC to deceive potential political backers during his successful congressional campaign in September 2022.<\/li>\n<li>Santos allegedly spent much of the money on himself, using it to buy clothes, pay off debts, and transfer money.<\/li>\n<li>Santos is due to appear at a Long Island district court in the afternoon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is a developing story, and we will update as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was arrested on federal criminal charges on May 10, in relation to an alleged scheme involving fraud, money laundering, and theft of public funds. The 13-count indictment, unsealed on May 10, charges Santos, 34, with defrauding prospective political supporters by laundering funds to pay for his personal expenses and illegally receiving<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1998,"featured_media":1928752,"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":[543],"tags":[4035,6909,5811,7383,4755,7129,12040,6913],"class_list":["post-1928751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-charges","tag-fraud","tag-george","tag-laundering","tag-money","tag-rep","tag-santos","tag-theft"],"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\/1928751","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\/1998"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1928751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1928751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1928752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1928751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1928751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1928751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}