• ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online
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    19 hours ago

    I remember hearing about him, but for some reason his misdeeds and crimes have fully escaped my memory. Can someone drop me a refresher on what he did exactly?

    • stringere@sh.itjust.works
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      • allegedly lied to donors, then used their money to make purchases at Hermes and Only Fans
      • used campaign money for personal travel and Botox
      • allegedly committed identity theft
      • allegedly lied to Congress
      • reimbursed himself for loans he did not make
      • lied about where he went to high school
      • … and college… -… and never worked on Wall Street, either
      • lied about founding an animal charity
      • allegedly swindled a disabled vet whose dog was dying
      • may have ripped off an Amish dog breeder with a bad check
      • marital status is “it’s complocated” because his stories and bio and marriage licenses don’t add up
      • unclear if his mother’s death was related to 9/11 as he claims
      • grandmother was definitely not a Holocaust victim
      • he did not have employees who died in the Pulse shooting
      • niece did not get kidnapped
      • “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
      • may have been a drag queen in Brazil
      • was not on Hannah Montana
      • did not have a role in The Invasion with Uma Thurman because she wasn’t in it, and neither was he
      • was never a Broadway producer
      • was never a journalist in Brazil
      • his staff impersonated House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise money
      • staff racked up huge unexplained expenses and charged them to donor credit cards on file along with payments to “anonymous” and themselves
      • was not the target of an assassination

      https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/guide-george-santos-lies.html