Amish country farmers say George Santos took puppies, left bad checks

[RandySF]

YORK COUNTY, Pa. — It was after dark when George A. Santos approached the farmer in Pennsylvania’s Amish country looking to buy at least eight puppies.

He promised a wire transfer of more than $5,000 but it never appeared, the farmer said in an interview. He said Santos ended up writing a smaller check — and driving off with four golden retrievers.

“Something inside me said I just cannot trust him,” the farmer told The Washington Post, speaking on the condition of anonymity to protect his privacy.

The check bounced.

The farmer, who has not previously spoken to the media, said he called police following the encounter in 2017. It took nearly two years for the authorities to locate Santos back home in New York, but he was eventually charged with theft by deception, according to a brief mention in The Star, a local newspaper in York County. In May 2021, the paper reported, the case was dismissed under a provision of Pennsylvania law that allows misdemeanor charges to be dropped when a prosecutor consents and “satisfaction has been made to the aggrieved person.”




https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/02/10/george-santos-amish-puppies/

[Irish_Dem]

1. Why did Santos want the puppies?

[Thomas Hurt]

4. Part of his next scam or worse. I won't even go there.

[Irish_Dem]

5. I asked the question a couple of times. No one wants to answer, for good reason.

Yep we can't go there.

[Hugh_Lebowski]

6. To sell them and make a big profit (given the bad check) would seem the simple answer

Ripping off the Amish to steal their puppies is pretty freaking low.

House RePuQs are disgracing themselves daily with their inaction.

[Irish_Dem]

8. +1 Starting his own puppy mill.

[Brother Buzz]

7. He was fraudulently involved in a dog rescue operation

Preying on and exploiting human emotion for a quick buck.

[Ziggysmom]

2. Yet the repubes are getting this fraud a security clearance to see sensitive government

documents?

[piddyprints]

3. Who wants to buy 8 puppies at a time?

And then walks off with 4? There's something fishy about this story. Not saying Santos isn't a liar and a cheat. The story does seem a bit incredible, though. Why would anyone do business on the promise of a wire transfer?

I have my own problems with Amish puppy mills. We have them around here.

The article is behind a paywall, so I can't read the whole thing. Maybe there's more information there that I'm missing.

[Brother Buzz]

9. Enter the link in the blue box at this link - The link is a great backdoor tool, Baby!

https://archive.ph/

Here's the article:
https://archive.is/Ar001

[Native]

10. Jeebus. He is such a piece of dung.

[Brother Buzz]

13. This is the second story on Santos' expunged records for bad checks

Police and court officials said no record of such a case is available. Pennsylvania state law allows for the expungement of cases that end in dismissal, which then erases records related to those cases and bars officials from acknowledging their existence.

I can believe some resourceful journalist will discover the records conveniently parked on the loading dock of the courthouse. Well, I can dream, can't I?

[Native]

17. So basically the 'stolen' checks were written and used by someone who looks exactly like Santos,

who just wanted to do Santos' 'charity' a solid by gifting him with the dogs paid for with the stolen checks. Nothing to see here!

[Cha]

19. Thank you! What a rat's nest.

[crickets]

11. No paywall:

https://archive.ph/Ar001 (oops, I see you already have a link)

I hope those puppies were adopted out to good homes. I do hope that part was real.

I despise this man. He's gotta go.

[TreasonousBastard]

12. So, first, York County is known for its puppy mills...

Then, the dogs were sold at various shady "charity" events run by an even shadier, unregistered, rescue charity.

This was two years ago, and warrants, etc, were cleared by PA.

Phony checks, Ponzi schemes all covered by Politico. Will anything else show up?

[RobinA]

14. Isn't Having Classified

documents in your house all the rage? It's about the only thing he hasn't been accussed of recently.

[RandySF]

16. If he does, they probably aren't the worst thing one would find.

[PatSeg]

15. With Santos there apparently will be

no end to these stories. I sincerely doubt he has ever said or done anything honest in his life. He certainly is prolific.

[Cha]

18. What in the Hell was GS Doing

with all those Dogs & Puppies he Stole.. for Christ sake!

[Raine]

20. My concern is for the poor puppies.😟😪 nt