Today is Thursday, February 2nd, and you're listening to The Morning Announcements

presented by Betches Media. I'm your host Sammy Sage, and The Morning Announcements

is your daily five-minute breakdown of the headlines that isn't afraid to take

aside and roast the most consequential reality show there is. Our government.

Representative Fraud Santos has earned himself our first two headlines today.

New reporting from the Miami Herald investigated Santos' campaign spending tied to multiple

trips he took to South Florida in 2021 and 22, during which he frequented multiple high-end

hotels and restaurants and attended events at Mar-a-Lago, a scammer's paradise.

In total, he reported spending more than $17,000 in Florida, and despite his long island

constituents' notable fondness for vacationing there, it's clear that these funds didn't go

towards whining and dining them on some sort of destination campaign trail. Instead,

a managing partner at a Miami Beach diner told The Herald that there were no receipts

matching the expenses that Santos listed in his campaign filings, and the Miami Beach

parking department said the amount Santos claims he paid to park in a public lot seemed impossible.

Does this guy realize we're talking about George Santos here? A man whose mother died twice?

Nothing's impossible.

Separate reporting explored Santos' past relationships with his ex-boyfriends,

with multiple men telling ABC News that they met Santos when they were young,

when he was several years older than they were, and that their relationships quickly turn toxic

and manipulative. One man who was 19 years old in 2013 when he met the 25-year-old Anthony Zobrovsky

and a Manhattan bar said that Zobrovsky, aka Santos, promised to marry him in order to help him

secure U.S. citizenship. Another man said that he started dating Santos when he was 18 and

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