>

Kevin McCarthy, and the entire Republican leadership, would rather keep this lying, cheating criminal (allegedly) in office than risk one iota of their tenuous power.
Disgusting. (And entirely predictable)
Late Tuesday afternoon, Santos’ political operation filed a flurry of amended campaign finance reports, telling the feds, among other things, that a $500,000 loan he gave to his campaign didn’t, in fact, come from his personal funds as he’d previously claimed.
However, while the new amended filing told us where the funds did not come from, it also raised a new question—where did the money come from? >

Isn't this a crime? >

I think it would absolutely be a crime for someone to give Santos' company money which he then paid to himself and forwarded to his campaign.
I have to believe, given this guy's general demeanor, that he's going to have some massive tax issues with this, if that's what he did, aside from the money-laundering aspect of it. >

IRS doesn’t have the personnel to hold anyone accountable which was the purpose of a decade long strategy by Republicans to defund the IRS. >

Hyperbole >

2500 out of 150,000,000 taxes filed each year. Lmao yeah the IRS is totally well funded. >

I’m not saying they are well funded, my original message was “hyperbole” because saying they don’t do any investigations is just that hyperbole, an exaggerated claim. >

OK there’s some legs on that argument but still, 2500 investigations is abysmally low. >

Franklin Mint should release a George Santos Coin Collection. Six commemorative pieces crafted from pyrite and depicting Volleyball George, Jewish George, 9/11 Anthony, George the Financier, Animal Charity Grifter George, and Kitara Revache. >

He could be his own Bullshit Mt. Rushmore >

Let’s put Trump on that one! >

"It wasn't Personal. It was Person-Al. My good friend Al donated the 500k. Does that clear things up???" >

It clears it up-ish >

“And it wasn’t a Donation, it was a ‘doh! nation’, meaning I had no idea what country it came from.” >

And that's when the Doh Nation attacked... >

Where's the Ah! Vatar when you need them! >

Remember when we used to be able to look at unchecked corruption in other countries and believe that we were above that?
.
Whether it was true or not is a different question, but at least we were able to do it. Now we absolutely know that our country is just as fucked. >

Nah, I remember a guy being elected president because his brother rigged a key state's count and the Supreme Court went "eh." >

You mean the time Roger Stone organized a riot to shut down official proceedings (the FL recount) so the Supreme Court could go on to make that ruling? >

The more I learn about this Roger Stone fella..the more I think he may not be a good person. >

You mean the same dude who, in his 70s, is swapping nude photos of naked wives with Alex Jones? You’re telling me that dude has some moral shortcomings? >


according to a person familiar with the arrangement who wished to remain anonymous

That person is gonna flip >

Nancy Marks, his treasurer, would be my guess.
She no-showed a local board meeting last night. Let's see if she does the same for an event in her honor on Friday. >

If anyone can keep the lid on a hot-boiling mess, it's Nancy Marks.
This one might just be blowing off a little too much national steam. >

I don't give a flying fuck if its personal or not.
I want to know where his broke ass got it in the first place. >

You should care about both reasons. It allows for a massive tax dodge. >

Traficante took bribes - gone.  Santos worked for a Ponzi scheme and can’t explain where he got half a million?  If Merrick Garland isn’t investigating this stooge already for campaign finance violations/crimes then wtf is he doing with his time? >

Duncan Hunter argued that using campaign funds to pay for weekends he spent fucking lobbyists was his actual job.
Still didn't resign from Congress until a month after he was convicted. >

Can we pin this on Hunter's laptop? >

Your handle suits you. >

I thought it was $700,000 and this is also illegal. >

If you care about the details:   his campaign reported three personal loans from Santos himself that totaled $705,000.
One of those loans was for $500,000 and evidently they're amending the filing to designate it as, uh... not from Santos personally. >

It appeared in his 501C(4). His handler seems to be the brother of Inna Yashchyshyn's contact. >

Enough with this motherfucker already. >

No, is never 'enough' till he is out of Congress. The public exposure of his crimes and dishonesty needs to continue and never ignored and swept under the rug like he and the republicans want. >

I’m pretty sure that’s what he means by “enough of him”. He wasn’t saying enough of this coverage. >

Exactly >

Out of all the stupid stuff Santos has done, this will likely spell end of his career. Campaign finance laws are no joke and FEC will indict him for this. >


Campaign finance laws are no joke and FEC will indict him for this.

Yep. When trump paid off a porn star with $130,000 in 2016 to keep her quiet about trump fucking her while he was married to Melania, it not only resulted in trump getting indicted and sent to prison it also caused such a scandal that he got destroyed in the Electoral College and that caused the GOP to rethink and abandon its embrace of authoritarianism.
That actually happened, in a different quantum reality from ours. We got stuck in a bad timeline. >

Michael Cohen went to jail over it >

And Trump didn't even have to answer a single question about it >

When your famous, they just let you do it. >

You can do anything. >

He doesn't care, because he knows nothing will be done about it. >


because he knows nothing will be done about it.

He really doesn't seem to have a lot of friends, and if someone is counting on McCarthy to stick by them, there's more backbone in a slug. >

McCarthy would like for someone to come along and rid him of this problem. >

McCarthy is also beyond desperate for an additional vote in the house. >

We don’t have any campaign finance rules anymore since Citizens United.  It’s all bribes and corruption now, money is just free speech remember.  It’s fine nothing to see here. >

If you want the actual details 
That applies to non-campaigns. You as a person can start a PAC spend all kinds of money on an issue or supporting a candidate. 
What's not allowed to happen is for your PAC to coordinate with any candidates on messaging or ad buys. 
What you're also not allowed to do is donate any more than $2500 per candidate per campaign (note this includes primaries so you could donate $5000 in total to any single candidate in any election year).
I would say that someone else "lending" you 500k to then "lend" that money to your campaign is a pretty obvious way to skirt that limit and does violate what anemic campaign finance laws we have. >

Kevin McCarthy, and the entire Republican leadership, would rather keep this lying, cheating criminal (allegedly) in office than risk one iota of their tenuous power.
Disgusting. (And entirely predictable) >

The house ethics committee will hold him accountable!
Yeah, right  , the Republican members on the committee would have to be taught what ethics are >

If he paid himself a salary of $750K from his LLC, then next comes the IRS asking if he paid his appropriate income tax. >

George Santos is like an unfunny version of George Costanza >

Can’t stand-ya! >

I’m telling you, that’s Kyrsten Sinema. >

Woah woah woah. 
You’re telling me the party of law and order is embracing someone who illegally funded his campaign?!? 
This is my surprised face 😐 >

I don’t understand how this dude still has a job. >

Follow the money.  Even more true for a grifter.  Wouldn't be surprised if there are Russian connections here.  Seems like republicans have a hand in Russian pants far too often. >

What I don’t understand is why Russia would choose someone like Santos, he seems like such a liability, he lied so much about things so easily fact-checked, he was bound to have a huge spotlight placed on him. Unless he’s a sacrifice or a test for the limits of our government to both deal with someone like him or NOT deal with someone like him. McCarthy throwing his hands up and saying the people elected him and giving him committee assignments is not a good sign… for America… for Russia and others it’s probably an excellent sign. >

Perhaps it's nothing more than an overt sign that Russia controls large parts of the republican party.  And in so doing controls a large part of American politics.  Which inevitably leads to less money and equipment for Ukraine forces in the long run. >

LOL - I’ll just lie more and THAT will surely fix my problems! >

Anakin meme - I’m not the independent I used to be, I want more. Keep these lies coming >

I honestly don't know what revelation I would question with this clown anymore. 
Ex-coworker said George Santos stole his ham sandwich out of the break room fridge and fucked it. Just fucked the sandwich. /s
I might just believe it at this point. >

At least that ham sandwich might actually get indicted! >

Idk. He seems trustworthy. Let’s hear him out >

I like to imagine Putin has had an inhouse app on his phone for the last 15 years that streamlines his ability to find individuals around the globe that would make the perfect puppets. He isn't the only one playing this game, but it seems like he is the best at it. Like out of any other foreign leader that would try to influence public opinion in the U.S, he just has the finger right on the pulse of the glaring weaknesses in our society. >

"It's more like, salary deposit from Papa Putin." >

Among other deposits from Putin >

Doesn’t matter - mccarthy needs his vote. >

How do you 'loan' money to a campaign? 
Is there some expectation it will become profitable enough in the future to have the cash to pay it back? 
How would that happen, exactly? >

You get donations and pay yourself back >

So he lied on his campaign financial disclosures. Seems like there is a crime here. >

It's Russian money, isn't it? >

It's not business, it's personal. >

The other shoe begins to drop. Bad to worse. >

"You know, like a crime" >

We have actions! But what consequences? >

Seriously someone said he was a bunch of squirrels wearing a mask and suit I’d at least consider it was possible at this point. >

Kremlin $$$ >

It’s hard to believe they got him to admit to something. Makes me believe thats somehow a lie itself. >

George Santos reveals he wrote “20,000 Leagues Beneath the Sea” in a press conference. >

There is no low for the house GOP. Not even a bar, but a hole that is dug deeper every day they are allowed in power. They are ethically bankrupt and no amount of smooth talking from Kevin Mcbullshit is going to convince me otherwise. >

If someone told me that this whole Santos debacle is just a Borat plot to make the GOP look like hypocritical Ass Hats, I'd have to admit that is has a bit of plausibility to it... then again Rudy Giuliani still has his plants on. >

Paging FEC, paging FEC, you are needed in NY-03. >

This criminal needs jail time now. >

This guy is a litmus test for just how much is enough to get removed. 
Any other job and he’d be gone. >

We already knew this. Tell us where it came from >

Let me guess, it was "Personal-ish" >

You mean the party of fiscal responsibility? Oh how that is my favorite repub lie. >

And again, nothing is going to happen. Someone needs to step up and start holding government representatives accountable. >

Cartoonishly evil >

He's only cartoon-ish on his maternal grandparents' side. >

we're such an obviously broken country. 
if I had my way, we'd reset. Break up the US and let states renegotiate terms to form a union. If I could choose a single term to be renegotiated, it would be representation in the senate. >

If history in an indication, the US will at some time break up. Probably initially into 3 countries. >

If this happens, as someone having many ancestors who lived in the US going back to its founding, I would request that all the states west of the Mississippi pay back, with interest, the monies taken from the federal treasury, and collected from the states existing at that time, to purchase that land from other countries.
The US Federal Government purchased Kansas, for example - it is not, and cannot be an "independent state". >

Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies is worth a read. He looked at a number of societies from the standpoint of a historian, looking for the factors they had in common. The accumulation of the society's wealth in fewer and fewer hands resulted, among other things, the inability of a society to pay its bills (as the rich were not taxed). Continual war and declining food affordability per unit of labor were other common factors, as was the hollowing out of what could be considered a middle class in favor of a wealthy + working poor society. >

Thanks for sharing. >

Why is no one talking about his gross lip fillers? >

I’m quitting politics. This guy should be gone already why are we still talking about him >

Nothing will happen.
Edit: I hope this guy is kicked out and goes to jail, but that’s just wishful thinking. In 10 years he’ll be in the senate with a net worth of $100M and will decry all this as ‘fake news’ >

Sadly I’m inclined to agree with you. Maybe a fine at worst. >

So he’s doing this all on purpose, is this just an effort to see how much you can get away with without your party caring or your constituents carings? How much you can do without being charged? >

Wow. He lied? Again? How many is that now….? >

What are the odds someone from the GOP pulled him aside and showed him how to hide his money better? >

After dealing with the train wreck of MTG and Boebert’s driving receipts, the GOP just has a campaign finance money laundering binder they hand out now. >

This is one of many strings, but I do believe it’ll be the string that when pulled enough, puts him in prison. >

I will be surprised if all the other people named “Santos” in America don’t get together and file a class action suit against him! >

There are probably a handful of Americans actually named “George Santos”… can you imagine the change in their lives!  :-) >

He’s a joke but entertaining and may even get expelled..but trump now there is a guy that can lie, grift and con >

Should anyone surprised he embellished a little? >

“It’s nothing personal..” he said as he walked from the shadows. The man stopped and a cracked a smile. Reaching into his pockets, he removed large wads of cash - pressing them against his nose. The politician took a deep inhale of the citizens’ tax dollars, “.. it’s just business.” he exclaimed. George continued on his way past me as a maniacal laughter had filled the alleyway - fading into the distance and becoming overlapped by the sounds of the city nightlife. >

Every new admission is the precursor to another admission >

That’s gotta be game set and match, right? >

Just another lie… but with potential consequences. He admitted it wasn’t his money but failed to identify the source. The FEC might investigate but I’m not sure that means anything; most of their investigations regarding prohibited contributions, excessive contributions, and failure to report end in conciliation agreements or go nowhere. Jim Jordan (yes, that Jim Jordan) is the lucky recipient of one those agreements for reporting discrepancies in 2018 and 2020. >

as a gay man 
there are so many gay slurs I want to call this guy >

In his defense, he meant to mark that it was person-al and we'll soon learn it came from a person who uses the pseudonym Al, so he had no ill intent. >

That is the eighth to the last straw! >

Hopefully creepy priest is barred from office soon >

He could have just said it is dark money from a secret corporate donor since Citizens United made that legal. Maybe he is too dumb to make a PAC and hide his donors. He probably took cash directly from someone, probably last name ending in -sky. >

I'm hoping this isn't exclusively an IRS matter as some have suggested about the amended reports but rather a criminal investigation by the NYSBOE as well as the FEC which oversees sources and donation thresholds. The donations were EITHER to his campaign OR to a PAC but they can't be commingled since PACs may not coordinate with campaigns for this very reason. >

Find the source of his money.  Someone spotted this grifter for a reason. >


Late Tuesday afternoon, Santos’ political operation filed a flurry of amended campaign finance reports, telling the feds, among other things, that a $500,000 loan he gave to his campaign didn’t, in fact, come from his personal funds as he’d previously claimed.
However, while the new amended filing told us where the funds did not come from, it also raised a new question—where did the money come from? >

Isn't this a crime? >

I think it would absolutely be a crime for someone to give Santos' company money which he then paid to himself and forwarded to his campaign.
I have to believe, given this guy's general demeanor, that he's going to have some massive tax issues with this, if that's what he did, aside from the money-laundering aspect of it. >

IRS doesn’t have the personnel to hold anyone accountable which was the purpose of a decade long strategy by Republicans to defund the IRS. >

Hyperbole >

2500 out of 150,000,000 taxes filed each year. Lmao yeah the IRS is totally well funded. >

I’m not saying they are well funded, my original message was “hyperbole” because saying they don’t do any investigations is just that hyperbole, an exaggerated claim. >

OK there’s some legs on that argument but still, 2500 investigations is abysmally low. >

Franklin Mint should release a George Santos Coin Collection. Six commemorative pieces crafted from pyrite and depicting Volleyball George, Jewish George, 9/11 Anthony, George the Financier, Animal Charity Grifter George, and Kitara Revache. >

He could be his own Bullshit Mt. Rushmore >

Let’s put Trump on that one! >

"It wasn't Personal. It was Person-Al. My good friend Al donated the 500k. Does that clear things up???" >

It clears it up-ish >

“And it wasn’t a Donation, it was a ‘doh! nation’, meaning I had no idea what country it came from.” >

And that's when the Doh Nation attacked... >

Where's the Ah! Vatar when you need them! >

Remember when we used to be able to look at unchecked corruption in other countries and believe that we were above that?
.
Whether it was true or not is a different question, but at least we were able to do it. Now we absolutely know that our country is just as fucked. >

Nah, I remember a guy being elected president because his brother rigged a key state's count and the Supreme Court went "eh." >

You mean the time Roger Stone organized a riot to shut down official proceedings (the FL recount) so the Supreme Court could go on to make that ruling? >

The more I learn about this Roger Stone fella..the more I think he may not be a good person. >

You mean the same dude who, in his 70s, is swapping nude photos of naked wives with Alex Jones? You’re telling me that dude has some moral shortcomings? >


according to a person familiar with the arrangement who wished to remain anonymous

That person is gonna flip >

Nancy Marks, his treasurer, would be my guess.
She no-showed a local board meeting last night. Let's see if she does the same for an event in her honor on Friday. >

If anyone can keep the lid on a hot-boiling mess, it's Nancy Marks.
This one might just be blowing off a little too much national steam. >

I don't give a flying fuck if its personal or not.
I want to know where his broke ass got it in the first place. >

You should care about both reasons. It allows for a massive tax dodge. >

Traficante took bribes - gone.  Santos worked for a Ponzi scheme and can’t explain where he got half a million?  If Merrick Garland isn’t investigating this stooge already for campaign finance violations/crimes then wtf is he doing with his time? >

Duncan Hunter argued that using campaign funds to pay for weekends he spent fucking lobbyists was his actual job.
Still didn't resign from Congress until a month after he was convicted. >

Can we pin this on Hunter's laptop? >

Your handle suits you. >

I thought it was $700,000 and this is also illegal. >

If you care about the details:   his campaign reported three personal loans from Santos himself that totaled $705,000.
One of those loans was for $500,000 and evidently they're amending the filing to designate it as, uh... not from Santos personally. >

It appeared in his 501C(4). His handler seems to be the brother of Inna Yashchyshyn's contact. >

Enough with this motherfucker already. >

No, is never 'enough' till he is out of Congress. The public exposure of his crimes and dishonesty needs to continue and never ignored and swept under the rug like he and the republicans want. >

I’m pretty sure that’s what he means by “enough of him”. He wasn’t saying enough of this coverage. >

Exactly >

Out of all the stupid stuff Santos has done, this will likely spell end of his career. Campaign finance laws are no joke and FEC will indict him for this. >


Campaign finance laws are no joke and FEC will indict him for this.

Yep. When trump paid off a porn star with $130,000 in 2016 to keep her quiet about trump fucking her while he was married to Melania, it not only resulted in trump getting indicted and sent to prison it also caused such a scandal that he got destroyed in the Electoral College and that caused the GOP to rethink and abandon its embrace of authoritarianism.
That actually happened, in a different quantum reality from ours. We got stuck in a bad timeline. >

Michael Cohen went to jail over it >

And Trump didn't even have to answer a single question about it >

When your famous, they just let you do it. >

You can do anything. >

He doesn't care, because he knows nothing will be done about it. >


because he knows nothing will be done about it.

He really doesn't seem to have a lot of friends, and if someone is counting on McCarthy to stick by them, there's more backbone in a slug. >

McCarthy would like for someone to come along and rid him of this problem. >

McCarthy is also beyond desperate for an additional vote in the house. >

We don’t have any campaign finance rules anymore since Citizens United.  It’s all bribes and corruption now, money is just free speech remember.  It’s fine nothing to see here. >

If you want the actual details 
That applies to non-campaigns. You as a person can start a PAC spend all kinds of money on an issue or supporting a candidate. 
What's not allowed to happen is for your PAC to coordinate with any candidates on messaging or ad buys. 
What you're also not allowed to do is donate any more than $2500 per candidate per campaign (note this includes primaries so you could donate $5000 in total to any single candidate in any election year).
I would say that someone else "lending" you 500k to then "lend" that money to your campaign is a pretty obvious way to skirt that limit and does violate what anemic campaign finance laws we have.