{"id":1929097,"date":"2023-05-11T18:26:28","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T22:26:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-arrested-indicted-on-13-counts-relating-to-fraud-money-laundering-and-other-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-05-11T18:28:19","modified_gmt":"2023-05-11T22:28:19","slug":"george-santos-arrested-indicted-on-13-counts-relating-to-fraud-money-laundering-and-other-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-arrested-indicted-on-13-counts-relating-to-fraud-money-laundering-and-other-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"George Santos arrested for 13 counts of fraud, money laundering, and other charges."},"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\">26<\/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%2Fgeorge-santos-arrested-indicted-on-13-counts-relating-to-fraud-money-laundering-and-other-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=1929097&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 Indicted on Multiple Charges<\/h2>\n<p>Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has been federally indicted and arrested on 13 counts, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-dont-lose-these-cases-sunny-hostin-and-the-view-hosts-gloat-over-george-santos-arrest\/\" title=\"'The View' hosts celebrate George Santos' arrest, confident in their winning streak.\">including campaign finance fraud<\/a>, false statements to Congress, and theft of public funds. The Associated Press reported that Santos surrendered to authorities and is expected to make a court appearance later this afternoon.<\/p>\n<h3>Charges Against Santos<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Seven counts of wire fraud<\/li>\n<li>Three counts of money laundering<\/li>\n<li>One count of theft of public funds<\/li>\n<li>Two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Santos is accused of using political contributions for personal gain, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-arrested-indicted-on-13-counts-relating-to-fraud-money-laundering-and-other-charges\/\" title=\"George Santos arrested for 13 counts of fraud, money laundering, and other charges.\">including buying designer clothes<\/a> and paying off personal credit card debt. He also allegedly lied to donors about the use of funds and unlawfully applied for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/missouri-tennessee-join-growing-number-of-states-cutting-off-federal-unemployment-bonuses\/\" title=\"Missouri, Tennessee Join Growing Number Of States Cutting Off Federal Unemployment Bonuses\">pandemic-related unemployment benefits<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Attorney Breon Peace stated that the indictment \u201cseeks to hold Santos accountable for various alleged fraudulent schemes and brazen misrepresentations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the charges, Santos is reportedly expected to plead not guilty, according to ABC News.<\/p>\n<p>Santos was first elected to Congress in November 2022. This is a developing story, and updates will be provided as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. George Santos (R-NY) has been federally indicted and arrested over 13 counts relating to campaign finance fraud and other charges including false statements to Congress and theft of public funds. The Associated Press reported Wednesday that Santos surrendered to authorities and is expected to make a court appearance later this afternoon. U.S. Attorney Breon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":326,"featured_media":1929098,"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":[4376,4035,16124,6909,5811,7383,4755,12040],"class_list":["post-1929097","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-arrested","tag-charges","tag-counts","tag-fraud","tag-george","tag-laundering","tag-money","tag-santos"],"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\/1929097","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\/326"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1929097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1929097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1929098"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1929097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1929097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1929097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}