A Gang Execution, Pleading the fifth, Justice for a Lifeless Canine: In opposition to All Odds, the George Santos Story Has Gotten Even Extra Weird

Lower than two months after first studying that newly elected congressman George Santos lied about, conservatively, 97% of his biography, it’s principally grow to be a full-time job to maintain up with the twists, turns, investigations, and insane revelations in regards to the GOP lawmaker. Final week alone, for example, it emerged that he’d baselessly:

• Claimed to have been the goal of an assassination try
• Claimed to have been mugged in broad daylight on the nook of Fifth Avenue and fifty fifth Road
• Advised a roommate he was a male mannequin who’d be showing in Vogue
• Advised the identical roommate that because of his work throughout Vogue Week, he’d palled round with Victoria’s Secret fashions
• Advised would-be buyers within the agency he labored at—which was {accused} by the SEC of working a Ponzi scheme—that he did offers with a few of the richest and strongest individuals in finance

Once more, all of this got here to mild simply final week! And that’s on prime of the unearthed lies that got here earlier than, together with those about having grandparents who fled the Holocaust and having been a star participant on the Baruch School volleyball workforce!

So that you’d suppose, given all we all know, that there’d be little or no left to return out in regards to the man, or few new avenues to probe. And but, apparently, you’d suppose unsuitable.

Right here’s what’s emerged in simply the previous couple of days.

The alleged scamming of a disabled veteran and his dying service canine is getting the FBI therapy

On Wednesday, Politico reported that the Federal Bureau of Investigation had launched a probe of an alleged GoFundMe scheme by Santos. That scheme, in line with disabled veteran Richard Osthoff, concerned Santos organising a GoFundMe to solicit cash to pay for surgical procedure for Osthoff’s service canine, Sapphire, elevating $3,000, after which absconding with the money. Sapphire died in 2017, and Osthoff says he contemplated suicide over the expertise with Santos. In keeping with the veteran, he was contacted this week by two brokers on behalf of the US Lawyer’s Workplace for the Japanese District of New York. And it’s attainable the case may end in prison prices for Santos sooner relatively than later.

Per Politico:

Joshua Schiller, a senior trial lawyer who has practiced within the Japanese District, mentioned the veteran’s encounter with Santos may supply prosecutors a fast strategy to hit the Republican congressman with prison prices regardless that they’re additionally investigating heftier attainable monetary crimes. “I believe there’s an urgency right here as a result of Santos is at present able to make legal guidelines,” Schiller mentioned. “I can consider examples the place the federal government used a lesser indictment to grab property and attempt to trigger the defendant to plea to a deal earlier than bringing a second or third indictment on extra critical prices, and I guess that’s the case right here.”