Santos, a Suburban House and $11,000 in Campaign Payments for 'Rent'

[RandySF]

The company was called Cleaner 123, and over the course of four months, it received nearly $11,000 from the campaign of George Santos, the representative-elect from New York who appears to have invented whole swaths of his life story.

The expenditures were listed as “apartment rental for staff” on Mr. Santos’s campaign disclosure forms and gave the address of a modest suburban house on Long Island. But one neighbor said Mr. Santos himself had been living there for months, and two others said that they had seen Mr. Santos and his husband coming and going, a possible violation of the rule prohibiting the use of campaign funds for personal expenses.

The payments to Cleaner 123 were among a litany of unusual disbursements documented in Mr. Santos’s campaign filings that experts say could warrant further scrutiny. There are also dozens of expenses pegged at $199.99 — one cent below the threshold at which federal law requires receipts.

The travel expenses include more than $40,000 for air travel, a number so exorbitant that it resembles the campaign filings of party leaders in Congress, as opposed to a newly elected congressman who is still introducing himself to local voters.




https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/29/nyregion/george-santos-campaign-finance.html

[moniss]

1. Flights back and forth

to Moscow probably don't come cheap.

[Wingus Dingus]

2. He learned the Boebert stunt of claiming seemingly endless/impossible travel mileage

for reimbursement before he or she is even seated. AKA fraud.

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

3. more

The source of Mr. Santos’s wealth has been surrounded by some mystery: He has said on financial disclosure statements that his company, the Devolder Organization, is worth more than a million dollars; the statements also show that he earned millions between salary and dividends over the past two years. But the disclosures do not name any of the clients who helped Mr. Santos earn such a fortune — an omission that could pose legal problems for Mr. Santos, campaign finance experts say.

Two former aides, who requested to remain anonymous because they didn’t want to be publicly associated with Mr. Santos, described growing concern during the campaign that the candidate was too focused on spending money frivolously and not focused enough on the nuts and bolts of winning the election.

[Irish_Dem]

5. So Russia was paying Santos for at least the past two years?

[BlueWaveNeverEnd]

6. not sure. He talks gibberish about how he earned millions.

Santos explaining how he earned big bucks: “I could explain it in a way if you’d give me the time, I could easily give the, if you give me the time I can easily explain it for you, uh, as in, when investors are looking for capital, and I’m sitting there, doing due diligence on the de- on the appetite and what they’re looking for, right? And we work alongside GPs and LPs to help them launch this capital. This is what I was doing and that’s what I worked extensively with these firms and many other firms at my time as I was vice president of linkbridge investors.”

[Irish_Dem]

7. The gibberish means he is lying. And we know he has links to the Russians.

But I suppose he could have done some sort of non Russian scam in the past.

[dalton99a]

8. +1

[Emile]

4. The train wreck continues. .

[dalton99a]

9. Kick

https://archive.ph/YoIrS

[tanyev]

10. You don't have to name a money laundering company something like Cleaner 123,

but it sure makes it easier for anyone investigating it.

[leftyladyfrommo]

11. So George DeVolder/Santos doesn't really exist.

He was completely manufactured by someone probably with a Russian last name.

We keep running into so many "firsts" with these assholes.