ENCORE: George Santos: Putting the "Con" in Congress | 173
Scamfluencers
Wondery
4.1 • 7K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
We’ll be back in two weeks with all-new Scamfluencers episodes. In the meantime, we’re returning to one of our favorites.
It’s hard to know what to believe about George Santos’ wild origin story. Since being elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2022, almost every facet of his life has been called into question — from his name and religious background to his former marriage and previous employment. But when the Justice Department starts digging into his campaign fundraising reports, they discover an even bigger bombshell. Since our original episode aired, George Santos has been expelled from congress and he has pled guilty to wire fraud and identity theft and is currently serving an 87-month sentence in federal prison.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Scam Fluencers fans, Sarah here. If you love the drama, deception, and mind-blowing |
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| 0:19.2 | We'll be back soon with brand new episodes of scam influencers. |
| 0:22.7 | But today, we wanted to take the chance to check back in with one of our favorite political |
| 0:27.5 | scammers ever, disgraced former representative, George Santos. |
| 0:32.9 | George lied about everything, from where he went to college, to his past as a volleyball |
| 0:37.4 | player, to claiming that as a volleyball player, |
| 0:38.3 | to claiming that his mother died in 9-11. |
| 0:41.3 | Even when he got found out, George kept lying and lying, and it got him all the way to |
| 0:46.8 | the U.S. House of Representatives. |
| 0:49.1 | But once he was in the halls of power, journalists started asking tough questions. |
| 0:54.0 | You remember all this, Sachi. |
| 0:55.7 | Yeah, a rare case of a politician scam that delighted me and didn't hurt. Too many people, I think. |
| 1:02.6 | No, I don't think so. Who knows? I mean, again, not my circus, not my monkeys. |
| 1:09.1 | Eventually, he was kicked out of Congress and pled guilty to wire fraud and aggravated |
| 1:14.4 | identity theft and was sentenced to seven years in prison. |
| 1:18.4 | And in July 2025, he reported to prison. |
| 1:21.9 | But in the lead up to jail time, George went off. |
| 1:25.8 | First, he went on TV and wept asking for a pardon. And when that didn't |
| 1:30.7 | happen, he went on X to complain. And it is so good. Sachi, will you please read what he said? |
| 1:37.2 | He wrote, the so-called friends I have that said they'd help, legit should have told me to go |
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