George Santos Raised Money for Dogs. It's Unclear Where It All Went.

[Cattledog]

Money had come in from raffles and sales of gift baskets; a few pets had found new homes. All in all, the adoption charity event at a Pet Oasis store on Staten Island had been a success.

But then the charity’s leader made an odd request: He insisted that the store owner give him the proceeds in a check made out to his name, Anthony Devolder.

The owner refused and made the check payable to the charity, Friends of Pets United. Days later, when he looked at his bank records, he noticed that the check had been altered: The charity’s name had been blotted out. “When it cashed, it was crossed out, and it had Anthony Devolder written on it,” the owner, Daniel Avissato, said.

Anthony Devolder is now better known as Representative George Santos, a Republican from New York whose election to Congress in November was upended by revelations of falsehoods in his background and irregularities in his personal and campaign finances.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/06/nyregion/santos-pets-animal-charity.html

[Maraya1969]

1. So that should be a serous crime.

[agingdem]

2. how did an obviously altered check

not get red-flagged at the bank?...

[bucolic_frolic]

3. Were there 2 George Santos?

I half expect them to announce he had a body double that was doing all the bad stuff, while he was in choir school the whole time.

Altering the face of a check is serious business.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. This guy is going to prison.