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RandySF

(86,253 posts)
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 04:50 PM Aug 2023

George Santos Missed the Deadline to Reveal His Finances. Now What?

The filing of House financial disclosure reports each year is usually considered a routine affair. But for Representative George Santos of New York, who is facing 13 felony charges related to his finances, the matter has the potential to become yet another soap opera.

Mr. Santos, a first-term Republican, missed the Aug. 13 deadline to file his disclosures, a lapse that could lead to fines. He had already received a 90-day extension from the initial deadline, which was May 15. A spokeswoman for Mr. Santos did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The House Committee on Ethics receives and reviews the disclosures, which provide the public with some of the most detailed financial information available on their representatives.

There has been considerable speculation about whether Mr. Santos’s financial disclosure might shed light on the source of the more than $700,000 he lent to his campaign.

Mr. Santos has maintained that he earned the money legally through his company, the Devolder Organization, which he said acts as a paid go-between in deals involving wealthy people.



https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/15/nyregion/george-santos-financial-disclosure.html?smtyp=cur

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George Santos Missed the Deadline to Reveal His Finances. Now What? (Original Post) RandySF Aug 2023 OP
Hard to pay attention to one small clown Maeve Aug 2023 #1
Santos is damned lucky stuff started blowing up with 45 when it did. ShazzieB Aug 2023 #2
Ahh - don't worry about it! He's a Republican. IOK. dchill Aug 2023 #3
WTF's the Holdup, Spurious? Cha Aug 2023 #4
Oh I'll Also Have Time to Pay Attenton Cha Aug 2023 #5
This will all ... Think. Again. Aug 2023 #6
The 700K "self-loan" came through a yacht brokerage fee. maxsolomon Aug 2023 #7

Maeve

(43,489 posts)
1. Hard to pay attention to one small clown
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 04:55 PM
Aug 2023

When we have a circus bigger than Barnum, Bailey and all the Ringling Brothers combined ever imagined

ShazzieB

(22,882 posts)
2. Santos is damned lucky stuff started blowing up with 45 when it did.
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 04:59 PM
Aug 2023

Took the spotlight right off of him!

 

Think. Again.

(22,456 posts)
6. This will all ...
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 05:20 PM
Aug 2023

...blow up for him fast.

He's way out of his league of petty scams on roommates.

maxsolomon

(39,127 posts)
7. The 700K "self-loan" came through a yacht brokerage fee.
Tue Aug 15, 2023, 05:25 PM
Aug 2023

GQP Santos Donor Mayra Cruz sold her multi-million-dollar yacht to another GQP Santos Donor, Raymond Tantillo, and they made Santos the broker.

He'd never brokered a yacht sale prior to this transaction, but it made him very very flush.

Was it illegal? A "workaround" like that should have been, but I bet it wasn't.

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