Monday, January 16th, 2023

Morning Announcements

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🗓️ 16 January 2023

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Today's headlines: A video from 2019 has resurfaced in which George Santos identifies himself as Anthony Devolder, and the founder of something called ‘United For Trump’; New reporting has revealed that Santos’s most recent job was to raise money for a small, Florida-based investment firm called Harbor City Capital; In 2021, the year after Santos began working there, the SEC said that Harbor City was a Ponzi scheme, and shut down after taking in over $17 million dollars; In May 2021, George Santos incorporated a company called the Devolder Organization LLC - a firm that he claimed was the source of between $3.5 and $11.5 million dollars in income and dividends, after making only $55 thousand dollars in 2020. Finally for today, another round of classified documents was found at President Biden’s Wilmington Delaware home Resources/Articles mentioned this episode: The Hill: Santos reportedly used ‘Anthony Zabrovsky’ alias on charity GoFundMe page Washington Post: Harbor City called George Santos a ‘perfect fit.’ The SEC called the company a fraud. WSJ: George Santos Raised Money for Company the SEC Says Was a Ponzi Scheme Mother Jones: Another Santos Money Mystery: He Struck a Curious Business Deal With a Veteran GOP Operative NY Times: The Mysterious, Unregistered Fund That Raised Big Money for Santos Daily Beast: George Santos Took Donation From Migrant-Smuggler NY Times: Santos’s Lies Were Known to Some Well-Connected Republicans NPR: Here's what we know about the classified documents found at Biden's home and office Host: Sami Sage Morning Announcements is produced by Sami Sage alongside Amanda Duberman and Bridget Schwartz Original Music and Editing by Brandon Lee Bjornson Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Today is Monday, January 15th, and you're listening to the Morning Announcements presented
0:05.5	by Betches Media.
0:07.0	I'm your host, Sammy Sage, and the Morning Announcements is your daily five minute breakdown
0:10.6	of the headlines that isn't afraid to take a side and roast the most consequential reality
0:15.3	show there is.
0:16.7	Our government.
0:18.1	This episode is brought to you by Green Chef, the number one meal kit for eating well with
0:22.3	dinners that work for you.
0:28.7	The representative who calls himself George Santos, sometimes, more on that in a minute,
0:33.7	has kept investigative journalists hard at work this weekend, as new revelations about
0:37.9	Santos dropped what felt like continuously, and those stories are going to take up most
0:42.4	of our episode today.
0:45.5	First, there is the question of his name.
0:50.8	A video from 2019 has resurfaced in which he identifies himself as Anthony DeBolder and
0:56.6	the founder of something called United for Trump.
0:59.4	The video takes place during a Q&A session at an event in New York called Walkaway LGBT.
1:05.0	As part of his question that was really a statement, we know the type, he asked a conservative
1:09.6	transgender YouTube star how she can help educate other trans people that Republicans
1:14.4	really aren't so bad for trans rights.
1:17.0	But that is another matter.
1:18.4	At this point, we know that so-called Santos has used the names George DeBolder, Anthony
1:23.6	DeBolder, George Anthony DeBolder Santos, and Anthony Zabrowski.
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