>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.

Let them protest peacefully. It’s their constitutional right.

But if they trespass, disrupt or become violent, then send them to Riker’s for hate crimes.

Simple, no?

Nikki had plenty access to mental health therapy growing up, but that unfortunately didn’t prevent this violent crime.

The NGO industrial complex is growing strong in NYC.

The Zimmerman campaign was on record saying they pushed those issues with Santos to the mainstream media, but no one wanted to cover this before the election.

The New York Times had plenty of staff.

But some of the reporters were out on the streets of NYC trying to fish for quotes like “I feel safe and never worry about crimes”, which was obviously more important to them than covering candidates like Santos.

Until after the elections, the mainstream media just didn’t care about this because they were too busy pushing their own propaganda.

Edit: Hey there New York Times employees.. I see a lot of downvotes once your employer got mentioned in the replies.

According to the story, the firm was notified twice about that policy.

I don’t understand why they didn’t complain right then, instead of waiting for an employee to (knowingly or unknowingly) try to go to a show and run against the unchallenged policy.

Meeting Jewish organizations would be going above and beyond.

If AOC and the likes just stopped with the antisemitism, that would be a great start. Not a very high bar, but it’s a start.

Doh, you’re right.

So that will be presidential elections year. That’s better than NY Governor’s election.

I don’t expect people to show at the polls just to vote for him.

His re-election will probably depend on the governor’s race to turn out GOP voters hoping they would just blindly vote for him as well… just like in the 2022 election.

Voters in the NY-3 district don’t have the right to remove him.

So even if they feel overwhelmingly deceived, they will be stuck with him for 2 years.

I would love to hear if people in this sub are still against voters having the right to recall an elected official.

>If you've lived in New York this long you should know the cold season is usually quieter and calm with crime.

While that's factually correct, it's also misleading in the context of this news.

The period in question is compared to the same period last year, which mostly cancels out seasonalities.

September and November 2022 was actually slightly warmer than the same months in 2021.

Yet, fringe groups believe whatever crime level we had 40 years ago is a progressive gold standard.

If it’s better than the 80s, there’s no problem!

Money spent on preventing crimes (policing included) is a lot better than money spent on incarceration.

I was told crimes would only go down when everyone had free housing.

When did that happen in NYC?

It guess it helped after Hochul finally admitted there was a rising crime issue and committed state funds to pay for policing overtime in NYC.

That’s way better than having to prepare a bribe to the doctor and buying medicines in the black market.

You might have an inconvenient public health care system, but it could be a lot worse..

It’s much simpler to deduce he is a piece of shit based on his record (of what he supported or didn’t) than trying to decide based on guessing his identity.

There are factual stuff like resume and such that no politician should lie about.

But how do you verify those other things? Did the reporter even asked him? Or the ex-wife? We are assuming here it’s a woman based on the name, and all sort of assumptions going around here.

Is there a form where candidates have to disclose past divorces and the nature of their sexual relationships?

They could’ve highlighted the string of lies directly in the headline, for example.

An abundance of alternatives that didn’t involve questioning whether he is gay based on a secret past marriage to a woman.

There's plenty of material for bombastic headlines in this whole story.

It's inexcusable that they would choose a headline that pushes this kind of harmful stereotype that an openly gay person couldn't be married with someone of the opposite sex.

>Investigating your opponent for oppo-research is super basic in elections.

They did.

But the media was too busy trying to push their talking points on crimes, and didn't take the stories.

>This is simply bullshit. Entirely anachronistic. And is not the reality of why this story did not surface until now.

Yeah, including the NY Times, it was not related at all with their relentless push for their "crime is just a perception issue / GOP propaganda" narrative.

Edit: even in mid Sep, when it was pretty obvious, the NY was still trying to spin the narrative. Those who want to deny, feel free to continue doing so.

NY Times confirms that huge donors for Zeldin came as a consequence of the public safety debate:

>The stakes have only grown amid a huge outside spending campaign by a handful of ultrawealthy conservative donors seeking to capitalize on the public safety debate.

NY Times spins the narrative:

>As Ms. Hochul likes to point out, the state remains safer than some far smaller, many run by Republicans.
>
>But a rash of highly visible, violent episodes, especially on the New York City subways, in recent months have left many New Yorkers with at least the perception that parts of the state are growing markedly less safe.

NY Times spending time fishing for a quote about the "GOP propaganda" narrative on the streets, rather than investigating George Santos.

>“I want to make something crystal clear because they aren’t going to explain it to you in the media,” he said, adding: “They want to make us afraid.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/25/nyregion/hochul-zeldin-governor-ny.html