Homocons

Bloomberg News reports: George Santos, the embattled Republican congressman charged with fraud and money laundering, has secured three unidentified guarantors for his $500,000 bond. At his May 10 arraignment, where Santos pleaded not guilty, US Magistrate Judge Anne Shields released the 34-year-old lawmaker but told him he would have to get three co-signers for the bond. He now has them, …

The Washington Post reports: Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), who was charged earlier this month with a host of financial crimes, is now serving as the treasurer for his own campaign and several affiliated committees, according to filings made Friday by the committees with the Federal Election Commission. The congressman’s unusual move to become his own campaign treasurer followed his indictment …

Scripps News reports: Naysa Woomer, the communications director for embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.), has resigned, Scripps News has learned. The departure of Woomer, a prominent Republican communications adviser, is the latest in a string of bad news for Santos, who was indicted on 13 counts, including fraud and money laundering. Woomer previously worked for GOP Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker …

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. George Santos (R-NY) didn’t have a great day on Wednesday. Although he survived an effort to kick him out of Congress, with Republicans instead punting the motion to the Ethics Committee, Santos wasn’t spared much dignity Wednesday night after the vote when fellow New York Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D) took to the Capitol steps to …

CBS News reports: House Republicans on Wednesday blocked a Democratic resolution that would expel GOP Rep. George Santos from Congress, instead voting to refer the matter to a committee while several investigations into his conduct continue. On Tuesday, Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia of California introduced a measure to expel Santos from the House as a “privileged” resolution, fast-tracking its consideration …

The Associated Press reports: Democratic Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., introduced a resolution in February to expel Santos, something the House has only done twice in recent decades and requires the approval of a two-thirds majority. He brought the measure Tuesday to the House floor under a process that gives lawmakers until Thursday to dispense with it. Republicans could vote to …

Spectrum News reports: House Democrats are set to put a measure on the floor to expel Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., from Congress on Tuesday, sources tell Spectrum News, after he was arrested and charged in federal court last week with money laundering, wire fraud, theft of public funds and making false statements to Congress. The measure, known as a “privileged …

The Daily Beast reports: In the aftermath of a federal indictment charging Rep. George Santos (R-NY) with wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds, and false statements, a top staffer for the serial fabulist publicly lashed out this week at a freelance journalist he claims is “obsessed” with him and “fixated” on his “every move,” before seeming to suggest …

The Daily Beast reports: Newly released audio shows Rep. George Santos (R-NY) asking a documentarian for money to appear in a documentary project about him. Filmmaker Blake Zeff tweeted that his team “eventually ditched the project when it was clear” Santos wanted “lots” of money to appear in the film. In the audio, which was reportedly recorded during conversations between …

The Washington Post reports: Rep. George Santos signed a deal with Brazilian prosecutors Thursday in which the New York Republican confessed to theft and agreed to pay restitution and fines if prosecutors agree to drop the criminal case against him, bringing a likely resolution in a case that has tailed the embattled politician for more than a decade. Santos appeared …

CNN reports: Republican Rep. George Santos’ deal with Brazilian authorities to avoid prosecution in a 2008 fraud case is expected to be finalized Thursday in Rio de Janeiro, according to documents viewed by CNN. Prosecutors proposed a deal with Santos in which he would pay a fine to the state of Rio de Janeiro and reimburse the victim for the …

The New York Post reports: House Speaker Kevin McCarthy said he would not support lying Long Island Rep. George Santos in his re-election bid after the freshman lawmaker was blasted with fraud and money laundering charges. McCarthy implied in a interview with CNN that Santos should consider dropping out of the 2024 race while he deals with the court case …

The Associated Press reports: Protecting a narrow, four-vote majority, Republican leaders in the House are making clear that they intend to let the legal process play out with New York Rep. George Santos before they take steps to force his resignation or expel him. Republican leaders, who for months have faced mounting questions about Santos after most of his campaign …

From the Washington watchdog group CREW: There is reason to believe that Rep. George Santos’s treasurer does not exist and that Santos’s committees are violating the law by raising and spending money without a treasurer, according to a complaint filed today by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington with the FEC. Andrew Olson, Santos’s listed treasurer, is not and …

At this writing, Miss Kitara Ravache is screaming at the media scrum outside a Long Island courthouse where in addition to ranting about his innocence, he’s parroting the latest claims about the Biden family being the real criminals. When confronted about some of the 13 federal charges, Miss Ravache dodged and repeated Trump’s all too familiar claims about everything being …

The Associated Press reports: U.S. Rep. George Santos pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges alleging a financial fraud at the heart of a political campaign built on dubious boasts about his personal wealth and business success. Santos, the New York Republican whose biography began to unravel after his election last fall, is accused of duping donors, stealing campaign funds, lying …

Holy crap, this is really something. From the Justice Department: A 13-count indictment was unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging George Anthony Devolder Santos, better known as “George Santos,” a United States Congressman representing the Third District of New York, with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money …

The Guardian reports: Federal prosecutors in New York have charged congressman George Santos, the embattled House Republican who has been under scrutiny for months by the Justice Department over questions surrounding his 2022 campaign and finance activities. Santos is expected to turn himself in to authorities at the federal court in Brooklyn as soon as Wednesday morning, one of the …

The Daily Beast reports: Alt-right agitator Milo Yiannopoulos used the credit card for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene’s (R-GA) campaign last November to purchase an internet domain for Kanye West’s still unannounced 2024 presidential bid, and he was reimbursed for “domain transfer” by the West campaign the same day for $3,000 above cost, according to receipts obtained by The Daily Beast …

Politico reports: Patrick Krason, the treasurer for Ye’s, better known as Kanye West, still-active presidential campaign account, told a federal regulator he had resigned on Monday, alleging in a letter to the rapper-turned-candidate that campaign advisor Milo Yiannopoulos had possibly broken federal campaign finance law. Yiannopoulos denied the allegation. Krason said he had recently learned of a “potentially serious criminal …