This is a beat exclusive.

George Santos on tape discussing his scandals, finances, and problems on the road to this

new indictment we saw today.

And here are the facts.

These tapes were recorded earlier this year in January and February by documentarian Blake

Zeff, who's worked in government and recently did an MSNBC documentary about student loans.

So they were recorded before this indictment for the charges that include allegedly a legally

taking unemployment benefits, which you're going to hear this for the first time tonight

George Santos discusses here on tape.

So, long story short, I went from 2019 bringing in $400,000 to a guy in 2020, my name

recorded income 55,000.

I'm going to be more legitimate.

I actually qualified for unemployment.

Quote, I qualified for unemployment.

This is newly revealed in these Santos tapes tonight at MSNBC exclusive and that's for

the unemployment today prosecutors say otherwise.

Now the new tapes may be relevant to this open case now.

Santos also blamed people who worked for him when it came to other money issues.

Now, here is what he told Zeff on this tape airing for the first time right now.

This is a very complicated process.

You and 100 people throughout this process that are going to do justice and you have people

that are involved in justice.

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