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🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 14 minutes
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0:00.0 | I'm Ben Myceles from the Midas Touch Network. |
0:03.1 | Maggery Public in George Santos was arrested and taken into custody today in a central |
0:10.8 | Islip Federal Courthouse in the Federal Court for the Eastern District of New York, where a |
0:17.9 | 13 count federal indictment against Maggery Public in George Santos was unsealed. The United States |
0:26.7 | Attorney for the Eastern District of New York released the following statement. Quote, |
0:31.8 | this indictment seeks to hold George Santos accountable for various alleged fraudulent schemes |
0:38.6 | and brazen misrepresentations taken together the allegations in the indictment |
0:45.2 | charge Santos with relying on repeated dishonesty and deception to ascend to the halls of Congress |
0:53.3 | and enrich himself. He used political contributions to line his pockets unlawfully applied for |
1:01.9 | unemployment benefits that should have gone to New Yorkers who had lost their jobs due to the pandemic |
1:08.7 | and lied to the House of Representatives. And so the 13 count indictment which will show for you now |
1:16.6 | is broken down into the three categories that the United States Attorney for the Eastern |
1:22.7 | District of New York set forth in that statement. They include fraudulent campaign contributions, |
1:30.0 | they include money laundering, theft of public funds with respect to this unemployment |
1:37.1 | benefit fraud scheme that he engaged in and then these false statements. So breaking down the |
1:43.6 | indictment into these categories with respect to the first category of these unlawful campaign |
1:50.8 | contributions and the fraud. What George Santos did is he created a company which is just listed |
1:59.0 | in the indictment as company number one and entity that George Santos controlled the devolder |
2:06.0 | organization was listed as having a controlling interest in company number one. But company number |
2:13.4 | one utilized a political operative who's listed in the indictment as just political consultant or |
2:20.0 | operative number one. And this individual in concert with George Santos with lie to potential donors |
2:30.4 | and claim that this company was a 501 C4 that it was a campaign organization that was raising money |
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