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underpants

(182,283 posts)
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 12:35 PM Jun 2023

George Santos "would rather surrender to pretrial detainment" than name his bail $ source

Rep. George Santos' (R-NY) lawyers filed court documents Monday in which they begged a judge to keep the guarantor who paid the congressman's bail bond secret, according to CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane.

“There is little doubt that the suretors will suffer some unnecessary form of retaliation if their identities and employment are revealed," the defense lawyer also said.

“My client would rather surrender to pretrial detainment than subject these suretors to what will inevitably come," the lawyer explained.

https://www.rawstory.com/george-santos-who-paid-bond/

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George Santos "would rather surrender to pretrial detainment" than name his bail $ source (Original Post) underpants Jun 2023 OP
Your proposal is accepted. Report to jail, fucker. Takket Jun 2023 #1
That means a really fugazi source, perhaps even mobsters or foreign governments. TheBlackAdder Jun 2023 #18
Now I really really really really Want to know who paid the bail bond!! IA8IT Jun 2023 #2
+1 Baitball Blogger Jun 2023 #3
Must be someone Santos is scared of underpants Jun 2023 #7
My guess it was Oleg Deripaska Botany Jun 2023 #8
👍 underpants Jun 2023 #21
This message was self-deleted by its author underpants Jun 2023 #22
My guess is Viktor Vekselberg meow2u3 Jun 2023 #26
Lyft or Uber? Love to see psycho Santos packing for prison. Volleyball uniform,? Check. Jew-ish Comfortably_Numb Jun 2023 #4
I wonder if Epstein's cell is available. 3Hotdogs Jun 2023 #5
I wonder if Epstein's cell is available. 3Hotdogs Jun 2023 #6
Sounds good to me. Let's go with that. RockRaven Jun 2023 #9
Promises, promises FrankBooth Jun 2023 #10
Well then... Blue Owl Jun 2023 #11
😆 underpants Jun 2023 #13
Judge: George Santos donors who bailed him out of jail must be revealed hookaleft Jun 2023 #12
Well he can't vote in Congress from jail Walleye Jun 2023 #14
OK. tanyev Jun 2023 #15
The Streisand Effect usonian Jun 2023 #16
This makes me smile LetMyPeopleVote Jun 2023 #17
whoever put up the bucks had to know dembotoz Jun 2023 #20
This is weird. All these secrets. Buckeyeblue Jun 2023 #19
He lies about everything. 3catwoman3 Jun 2023 #23
Why not... TlalocW Jun 2023 #24
I don;t understand how this can be kept private. Happy Hoosier Jun 2023 #25
This may be a case of having your cake and eating it too Mr. Ected Jun 2023 #27
"There is little doubt that the suretors will suffer some unnecessary form of retaliation maxsolomon Jun 2023 #28

Botany

(70,292 posts)
8. My guess it was Oleg Deripaska
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 12:58 PM
Jun 2023


Deripaska paid for DeVolder's (Santos) campaign via relative, Deripaska was the
one who was paying FBI Agent McGonigal to rat fuck the HRC campaign in 2016,
and he was the one along Konstantin Kilimnik helped to ship the Trump's campaign
data from Manafort back to Russia so they could micro target certain areas and use
the electoral college to flip the election to Trump.

Response to Botany (Reply #8)

Comfortably_Numb

(3,777 posts)
4. Lyft or Uber? Love to see psycho Santos packing for prison. Volleyball uniform,? Check. Jew-ish
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 12:44 PM
Jun 2023

Yarmulke? Check. Fake diplomas? Check. 9-11 Mother’s memorial snow globe? Check.

FrankBooth

(1,598 posts)
10. Promises, promises
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 01:00 PM
Jun 2023

Stop teasing George, you'll never voluntarily go to prison for anybody else, you're way to much of a malignant narcissist for that.

usonian

(9,429 posts)
16. The Streisand Effect
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 01:38 PM
Jun 2023

From Wikipedia:

The Streisand effect is an unintended consequence of attempts to hide, remove, or censor information, where it instead leads to increased awareness of that information. It is named after American singer and actress Barbra Streisand, whose attempt to suppress the California Coastal Records Project's photograph of her cliff-top residence in Malibu, California, taken to document California coastal erosion, inadvertently drew greater attention to the photograph in 2003.

The Streisand effect is an example of psychological reactance, wherein once people are aware that some information is being kept from them, they are significantly more motivated to get and spread it.

Happy Hoosier

(7,082 posts)
25. I don;t understand how this can be kept private.
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 02:11 PM
Jun 2023

What's the court's basis for keeping them secret?

Seems like public information to me.

Mr. Ected

(9,670 posts)
27. This may be a case of having your cake and eating it too
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 02:21 PM
Jun 2023

Having your cake would be for Santos to thumb his nose at the court, be held in contempt, and jailed until he reveals his benefactor.

Eating the cake will be the day that Santos can't take another day of incarceration and reveals all in the end anyway.

maxsolomon

(32,992 posts)
28. "There is little doubt that the suretors will suffer some unnecessary form of retaliation
Tue Jun 6, 2023, 02:22 PM
Jun 2023

if their identities and employment are revealed,"

Opprobrium is not retaliation.

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