One of Santos’ former campaign aides pleaded guilty to charges last week, and according to a source who spoke to The Daily Beast, Santos is in big trouble.
aide pleaded guilty to federal charges in connection with a $500,000 campaign loan that the indicted congressman had entirely fabricated. But while that loan was fake, the money, eventually, became real.
Perhaps most notably, Marks pleaded guilty to a charge that has nothing to do with any of the 13 counts laid out in the indictment that Justice Department prosecutors brought against Santos in May. Still, the DOJ merged their cases, listing her as a co-defendant with Santos.
Jordan Libowitz, communications director for government watchdog Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, told The Daily Beast on Sunday that “this is just an additional level of lying and criminal exposure.” “Since the beginning of the George Santos saga, a lingering question has been where the cash-strapped candidate came up with hundreds of thousands of dollars to put into his campaign,” Fischer told The Daily Beast.
If Santos financed the loans from business clients who were seeking to secretly support his bid, Fischer said, “then we’re likely looking at disclosure violations and contributions in excess of legal limits.”of four Santos corporate clients. Two of them also happened to be the parties involved in a $20 million yacht sale that Santos had brokered in September of last year,Santos was pitching donors on the fake “dark money” nonprofit scheme that netted him a federal charge.
The campaign’s filings, however, are a mess. They report the loans in contradictory ways across multiple reports—and in corrected versions of those filings—making it difficult to deduce what happened and when. For instance, in a February filing, the first without Marks,The fake $500,000 loan vanished entirely in that filing, replaced with that amount and more in new loans from September and October—matching the “IOU” claim that the money did eventually come through at that time.
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