Congressman George Santos Pleads Not Guilty to 13 Charges, Including Fraud and Money Laundering
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🗓️ 10 May 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:18.5 | Republican Congressman George Santos is indicted on 13 felony charges. He was charged with wire fraud, |
| 0:31.9 | money laundering, theft of public funds, and making false statements. And these basically break down |
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| 1:07.9 | It's Wednesday, May 10th. I'm Ann Marie for Tolly for the Wall Street Journal. This is the PM edition |
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| 1:26.4 | Republican Congressman George Santos was indicted today on federal charges that he |
| 1:30.8 | embezzled contributions, fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits, and filed false federal disclosure |
| 1:36.2 | forms. Santos selected last year to represent parts of Long Island and Queens surrendered to |
| 1:41.1 | authorities this morning and made an appearance in federal court and central iSlipp this afternoon. |
| 1:46.3 | Joining me now with more is our Courts Your Border Corrine Ramy. Corrine, what happened? |
| 1:50.4 | Santos appeared in court this afternoon where he pleaded not guilty to all 13 charges. |
| 1:55.6 | The judge released him on a bond, which was secured by three co-signers. And in court, his lawyer, |
| 2:02.8 | Joe Murray, told the judge that he needed to be able to travel because he was running for re-election. |
| 2:08.2 | And he needed Joe Murray said the freedom to engage in that election activity. |
| 2:12.6 | And so the judge said he could travel in New York City, Long Island, and DC, and then also said |
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