Homocons

Patch New York reports: A veteran’s charity gave the pit mix to Richard Osthoff, a disabled veteran who was honorably discharged from the U.S. Navy in 2002, he told Patch. When Sapphire developed a life-threatening stomach tumor, Osthoff, now 47, learned the surgery would cost $3,000. A veterinary technician took Osthoff aside and told him, “‘I know a guy who …

Axios reports: Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) has secured a seat on the House Committee on Small Business, despite receiving growing blowback for fabricating key details of his background that were central to his campaign, a committee spokesperson confirmed. Rep. Roger Williams (R-Texas), chair of the Small Business Committee, told Axios of Santos: “We will find a way to make …

“So-called assault weapons are used in an infinitesimally small percentage of crimes in this country. They’re not a threat to anybody, but Joe Biden, like Justin Trudeau and every would-be dictator on the planet sees them as a potential threat to political power, so Joe Biden thinks only his bodyguards should have them, not you. “And in Illinois, the governor …

The Hill reports: Rep. Nick LaLota is calling on the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Federal Elections Commission (FEC) to freeze fellow New York Republican Rep. George Santos’s campaign accounts amid escalating scrutiny of the new lawmaker’s false claims before and during his successful House bid last year. “To the extent there is actually any real money in the …

The Daily Beast reports: Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was eager to blast young people for a lack of work ethic during a 2020 podcast appearance—all while making up his own. “I put myself through college and got an MBA from NYU and I have zero debt,” he said during an appearance on the Police Off The Cuff podcast during his …

Mediaite reports: “I always had a few questions about it,” McCarthy said about the background of Santos. The speaker made clear, however, that he never knew anything for sure about his fellow Republican’s supposed resume. McCarthy was asked about a specific report accusing a Santos staffer of pretending to be McCarthy’s chief of staff over the phone during the campaign. …

The New York Post reports: A Brazilian homemaker accused truth-challenged GOP Congressman George Santos of allegedly draining her bank account and stealing her jewelry in an interview with the country’s largest broadcaster this week. Adriana Damasceno told O Globo that she met Santos and his mother, Fatima Devolder, at a bingo hall in the city of Niteroi where Santos was …

The Washington Post reports: George Santos has deeper ties than previously known to a businessman who cultivated close links with a onetime Trump confidant and who is the cousin of a sanctioned Russian oligarch. Andrew Intrater and his wife each gave the maximum $5,800 to Santos’ main campaign committee and tens of thousands more since 2020 to committees linked to …

“I actually went to school on a volleyball scholarship. When I was in Baruch, we were the number one in volleyball. We went to play against Harvard and Yale and we slayed them. “We were champions across the Northeast corridor. Every school that came up against us, they were shaking at the time. And it’s funny, I was the smallest …

Axios reports: Reps. Dan Goldman (D-N.Y.) and Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) issued a letter Sunday to House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), Chair of the House Republican Caucus Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), and Congressional Leadership Fund President Dan Conston calling on them to cooperate with the investigations into Santos. “In light of recent public reporting indicating that each of you had at least some …

The Washington Post reports: J.P. Maroney, Harbor City’s founder and the man who hired Santos, claimed in podcasts and YouTube videos that he had devised reliably profitable ways to generate sales leads online for other companies. He said he needed funding for this enterprise and was seeking risk-averse investors, people who might be elderly and who “can’t afford to start …

Reuters reports: George Santos, who lied about much of his resume and life story, will be removed from Congress if found to have broken campaign finance laws, fellow Republican and House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer said on Sunday. “He’s a bad guy,” Comer said on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “It’s not up to me or any other …

Patch New York reports: Former friends of the embattled Long Island congressman George Santos said they believe he wore a stolen Burberry scarf as he delivered a speech Jan. 5, 2021 at a Freedom Plaza rally declaring that the 2020 congressional election was stolen from him. Two former Santos roommates, Gregory Morey-Parker and Yasser Rabello, told Patch they suspect Santos, …

“George Santos will have to go through the congressional ethics process. I don’t want to prejudge that process, but I think he deserves the chance to at least make his case. There are requirements members of Congress have to meet when it comes to the money that they donate to their own campaigns. “But until then, I don’t think that …

People Magazine reports: Days after a Republican official told reporters that embattled Rep. George Santos once lied about being a college volleyball “star,” a new report suggests that some of the “key elements” of Santos’ story bear a striking resemblance to the resume of his former boss, Pablo Oliveira. Oliveira, who was Santos’ boss at LinkBridge Investors, graduated from Baruch …

The New York Times reports: In late 2021, as he prepared to make a second run for a suburban New York City House seat, George Santos gave permission for his campaign to commission a routine background study on him. Campaigns frequently rely on this kind of research, known as vulnerability studies, to identify anything problematic that an opponent might seize …

Mediaite reports: It’s just another day in the ongoing saga of Rep. George Santos (R-NY), the freshman congressman who is currently living a real-life Catch Me If You Can reboot no one asked for. On Friday, the Twitter account PatriotTakes tweeted a clip of Santos from 2019 at a “Walk Away LGBT” event in New York. “So, my name’s Anthony …

CNN reports: Republican Rep. George Santos, said a company later accused of running a “Ponzi scheme” was “100% legitimate” when it was accused by a potential customer of fraud in 2020, more than a year before it was sued by the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Once the company, where he worked, came under federal scrutiny, Santos claimed publicly that …

CNN reports: Santos has so far been defiant, pushing back on calls for his resignation – and House GOP leadership has not called on him to do so. Instead, McCarthy, a Republican from California, has indicated he will not join demands from New York GOP leaders, and others, for Santos’ resignation – and has indicated that Santos is on track …

The Hill reports: Former Speaker Paul Ryan (R) called on Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) to step down on Thursday, as the embattled first-term lawmaker faces increasing pressure to resign over revelations that he misrepresented parts of his background. “This isn’t an embellished candidacy,” Ryan told CNN’s Jake Tapper. “It’s a fraudulent candidacy. He hoaxed his voters, so of course he …