{"id":1945521,"date":"2023-06-06T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-agrees-to-unseal-names-of-co-signers-who-paid-500000-bail-for-george-santos\/"},"modified":"2023-06-06T15:07:56","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T19:07:56","slug":"judge-agrees-to-unseal-names-of-co-signers-who-paid-500000-bail-for-george-santos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-agrees-to-unseal-names-of-co-signers-who-paid-500000-bail-for-george-santos\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge allows release of names of co-signers who paid $500K bail for 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\">28<\/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%2Fjudge-agrees-to-unseal-names-of-co-signers-who-paid-500000-bail-for-george-santos%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=1945521&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>Federal Judge Agrees to Unseal Identities of Rep. George Santos&#8217;s Bond Co-Signers<\/h2>\n<blockquote><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sidney-powell-is-an-american-legal-giant\/\" title=\"Sidney Powell Is an American Legal Giant\">federal judge<\/a> in New York has agreed to unseal the identities of three people who co-signed Rep. George Santos\u2019s (R-NY) $500,000 bond after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-push-back-on-calls-to-remove-rep-taylor-greene-from-committee-assignments\/\" title=\"GOP lawmakers push back on calls to remove rep. Taylor Greene from committee assignments\">freshman lawmaker<\/a> was indicted on criminal charges last month.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Shields granted the request on Tuesday, giving Santos until noon on Friday to appeal her decision. The names of the guarantors will remain under seal until then, according to the ruling.<\/p>\n<h3>ESG Emerges as Sleeper Issue in the 2024 Presidential Campaign<\/h3>\n<p>The decision comes after several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-agrees-to-unseal-names-of-co-signers-who-paid-500000-bail-for-george-santos\/\" title=\"Judge allows release of names of co-signers who paid 0K bail for George Santos.\">media organizations pushed<\/a> the judge to reveal the names of the three individuals who helped secure Santos\u2019s bail after he was charged on 13 criminal counts in May. Defense attorneys for Santos filed a motion on Monday requesting the court keep the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wednesday-december-1st-2021\/\" title=\"Wednesday | December 1st, 2021\">records sealed<\/a>, arguing the guarantors would likely &#8220;suffer great distress, may lose their jobs, and God forbid, may suffer physical injury&#8221; if they were publicly identified.<\/p>\n<p><strong>&#8220;There is little doubt that the suretors will suffer some unnecessary form of retaliation if their identities and employment are revealed,&#8221;<\/strong> the lawyers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the lawyers argued that Santos would rather be arrested and \u201csurrender to pretrial detainment\u201d than name the guarantors. Santos has not publicly reacted to Shields\u2019s decision, and a spokesperson for the congressman has not responded to a request from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n<p>Lawmakers on the House Ethics Committee have also requested the names of the individuals as part of an inquiry into the payment, although Santos\u2019s legal team has not provided that information, according to court filings. The Ethics Committee opened an investigation into the matter after the House voted to refer it to the panel, temporarily saving Santos from a high-profile expulsion.<\/p>\n<p>Santos was released on a $500,000 bond after he was indicted by the Justice Department on seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/feds-charge-five-alleged-chinese-spies-for-carrying-out-harassment-campaigns-against-u-s-residents\/\" title=\"Feds Charge Five Alleged Chinese Spies For Carrying Out Harassment Campaigns Against U.S. Residents\">making materially false statements<\/a> to the House of Representatives. Santos has pleaded not guilty to the charges and has denounced the allegations as being politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for updates on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A New York federal judge has allowed the disclosure of the identities of three individuals who co-signed Rep. George Santos&#8217;s $500,000 bond after he was indicted on criminal charges. The decision was made by U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Shields, who granted the request on Tuesday. Santos has until noon on Friday to appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1945522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[538],"tags":[7117,4550,28431,5811,5387,6574,9413,3684,12040],"class_list":["post-1945521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-500k","tag-bail","tag-co-signers","tag-george","tag-judge","tag-names","tag-paid","tag-release","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\/1945521","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1945521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1945521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1945522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1945521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1945521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1945521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}