“Taken together, the allegations in the indictment charge Santos with relying on repeated dishonesty and deception to ascend to the halls of Congress and enrich himself. “This indictment seeks to hold Santos accountable for various alleged fraudulent schemes and brazen misrepresentations,” stated United States Attorney Peace. Donnelly, District Attorney, Nassau County, announced the charges. Driscoll, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Anne T. Polite, Jr., Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, and Michael J. Lindsay at the federal courthouse in Central Islip, New York.īreon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Kenneth A.
Santos was arrested this morning and will be arraigned this afternoon before U.S.
The indictment was returned yesterday under seal by a federal grand jury sitting in Central Islip, New York. CENTRAL ISLIP, NY – A 13-count indictment was unsealed today in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York charging George Anthony Devolder Santos, better known as “George Santos,” a United States Congressman representing the Third District of New York, with seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds, and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.
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