Subsequent September, George Santos will stand trial for practically two dozen federal crimes prosecutors have {accused} him of committing; if convicted, he faces greater than 20 years in jail. That’s the type of prospect that will hold most individuals up at evening nevertheless it appears, in the intervening time, the lately expelled consultant resides his finest life.
Lower than two weeks after being expelled from Congress, the previous New York consultant is now making a living hand over fist recording personalised movies on Cameo, for which he’s now charging an astonishing $500 a pop, a 566.67% enhance from his unique asking worth of $75. Final week, Semafor reported that he was on monitor to earn more money in just a few days than his annual congressional wage of $174,000. Now it seems the demand for Santos content material is so nice that he’ll make many, many multiples of that. Over the weekend, he reportedly instructed folks at a celebration on the Higher East Facet that he had 140 orders on Friday at $599-a-piece, which interprets to $83,860 a day. (It’s not clear when or why Santos reduce his fee from $599 to $500 however maybe he was overcome by the Christmas spirit.)
Whereas Santos was noticed out with associates—together with repsresentatives Lauren Boebert and Byron Donalds—on the Seashore Café on Saturday evening, he was apparently so busy churning out movies that he declined different social occasions. “I’d been working,” he instructed Web page Six, explaining why he didn’t attend a New York Younger Republican Membership occasion earlier within the night. “I electively selected to not go [to the gala] this 12 months…I have to make a dwelling as a result of I’ve a household to assist and feed.” (He additionally, clearly, has authorized charges to pay. He has pleaded not responsible to all expenses.) In certainly one of his lately recorded movies, he tells the recipient, “Chris, you sick psycho, you need me to yell at you? Are you out of your thoughts?”
Whereas a supply claimed to Web page Six that Santos “purchased pizza for everybody within the joint” on Saturday, the ex-lawmaker, who could or could not have restitution to pay sooner or later, denied doing so, saying: “I didn’t purchase pizza for 35 folks…it’s not true, it’s a lie. I ordered two $20 pies…for me and my associates.”
