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PandaJ108 t1_j2p6hyp wrote

Lied about

  • having employees that died at Pulse noght club shooting
  • a brain tumor
  • being rich & owning mansion
  • mom dying as a result of 9/11
  • graduating college
  • work experience

In reality

  • Deadbeat tenant in Queens
  • Under Investigation for financial based fraud here in the United States
  • Already wanted for fraud in Brazil
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iRedditAlreadyyy t1_j2pc27j wrote

“Just a month before his 20th birthday, Mr. Santos entered a small clothing store in the Brazilian city of Niterói outside Rio de Janeiro. He spent nearly $700 using a stolen checkbook and a false name, court records show.”

Can we even verify his current name is real? Is anything about this man real?

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j2qbrtv wrote

>If Mr. Santos does not present a defense in the Brazilian case, he will be tried in absentia. If found guilty, Mr. Santos could receive up to five years in prison, plus a fine.

I did not expect to start 2023 and see the NY Times gloat about anyone's prospect of spending 5 years in a Brazilian prison for a crime that wouldn't keep him in custody for more than a couple hours if it was committed in NYC.

It's amazing to see how the "criminal justice advocacy" is conditional on partisanship.

Just to be clear: fuck George Santos.

Edit: to the people asking about the gloating: the whole article is a “tough-on-crime justice porn fantasy” on an obviously unsympathetic defendant in a criminal case that is unlikely to amount to anything. And the five year sentence prospect is just the punch line. If you can’t see it, that’s on you.

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CraniumEggs t1_j2qokze wrote

Replying to NetQuarterLatte (#1,268,622)

Them presenting the facts isn’t gloating. Literally just stated what he is accused of and what he would face if that happened. Nothing else. Can you please show me any bit of the article of them gloating? Even one sentence?

The real hypocrisy is the GOP being about law and order and defending this guy conditional on partisanship.

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TJ_McWeaksauce t1_j2qwt83 wrote

>Despite his earlier confessions, Mr. Santos has recently denied any criminal involvement, telling The New York Post, “I am not a criminal here — not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world.”

To the surprise of no one, it turned out he was lying.

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NetQuarterLatte t1_j2rwxvn wrote

Replying to CraniumEggs (#1,269,038)

>The real hypocrisy is the GOP being about law and order and defending this guy conditional on partisanship.

Most people can see the hypocrisy on the GOP here.

If the "law and order" hypocrisy wasn't obvious during the Trump era, I'm surprised George Santos is what it took for you to realize that.

Would you feel that the whataboutism ("The GOP has hypocrisy too!") makes the hypocrisy in the "criminal justice advocacy" crowd look any better?

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Zontar_shall_prevail t1_j2ryihg wrote

It's a sign of our politics today that a sociopath and pathological liar decides the easiest scam is to run for congress.

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Any_Foundation_9034 t1_j2s4b96 wrote

It amazes me how quick and swiftly they move when it is something unfavorable or criminal against anyone who is on the right or republican side of things.

All the wile those on the left side of things have their stories suppressed… or buried all together.

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Die-Nacht t1_j2s7nkd wrote

Replying to Shawn_NYC (#1,269,459)

Richest NY congressional district. That's all you need to know. These ppl don't care about anything. They'll vote for whoever tells them that their taxes won't go up and the poor won't live near them. Everything else is just background noise.

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tinydancer_inurhand t1_j2sgcdt wrote

Replying to PandaJ108 (#1,267,074)

>Already wanted for fraud in Brazil

Sort of. There is no warrant for his arrest but hopefully this leads to a warrant cause then they can extradite him to Brazil cause I believe we have an interpol agreement with Brazil.

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tinydancer_inurhand t1_j2sglmp wrote

Replying to OrangeSlimeSoda (#1,270,930)

I normally am a very big advocate of not speculating about someone's sexual orientation but with these many lies you have to start questioning everything he has said about himself, especially cause we was married to a woman just a few weeks before running.

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DifficultyNext7666 t1_j2t6vah wrote

Honestly, and this is going to annoy reddit, my biggest question is what the fuck were the democrats doing here?

Did they do no opposition research on a tight race in a historically blue distict? They spent over $3 million dollars on the race.

And before what about the republicans, as far as i can tell they never gave a shit about this dude and he basically wandered in off the street and crushed zimmerman.

Was zimmerman a giant piece of shit?

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