WEBVTT - Diva Up Energy: George Santos 0:00:00.480 --> 0:00:02.720 Ridiculous Crime is a production of iHeartRadio. 0:00:03.440 --> 0:00:06.080 Zaren Hey, I wasn't. 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:07.520 How are you today? 0:00:07.680 --> 0:00:09.440 I'm very well refreshed. 0:00:09.480 --> 0:00:10.119 Are you awake? 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.240 Yeah, totally look at me awake. Yeah, my eyes are awake. 0:00:13.400 --> 0:00:20.400 I'm not listen pow, but listen, old bean. It's ridiculous. 0:00:20.400 --> 0:00:25.280 Oh girl, do I it's a little navel gaisy, but 0:00:25.400 --> 0:00:29.880 I gotta say, yeah, I can't read apparently. Oh really, yeah, 0:00:29.920 --> 0:00:33.479 that's ridiculous either. It's really late in my life to 0:00:33.600 --> 0:00:36.040 learn that I can't read. But I can't read because 0:00:36.200 --> 0:00:38.160 last week I was telling you about those baseball players 0:00:38.200 --> 0:00:42.680 look exactly alike, okay, right, and the red Gingers and 0:00:42.720 --> 0:00:45.120 their name, last name was Figel. I got that part right. 0:00:45.680 --> 0:00:49.880 First name not Brad. What is Brady? Apparently? I read 0:00:49.960 --> 0:00:56.840 enough letters like brad Borough whatever, you know, it doesn't matter. 0:00:57.160 --> 0:01:01.280 I call him Brah so he is. I apologize to 0:01:01.360 --> 0:01:02.680 both the Brady Figles. 0:01:02.960 --> 0:01:05.959 Okay, and they're notwhere, not all of them. 0:01:05.959 --> 0:01:09.679 There's a couple of bigod exemptions. You know who you are, 0:01:09.840 --> 0:01:10.560 you know what you did. 0:01:10.680 --> 0:01:11.760 They're days. 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.360 Yeah, so there you go. And then also one of 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.080 our listeners, cat named Richard Moore, wrote in and said, 0:01:17.160 --> 0:01:19.560 uh that you know when Sara tells Elizabeth a bunch 0:01:19.560 --> 0:01:22.240 of ridiculous in this episode about that one. Did those 0:01:22.280 --> 0:01:25.800 two minor league ballplayers ever get their respective parents together 0:01:26.120 --> 0:01:26.840 just for fun? 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:28.200 Oh? 0:01:28.000 --> 0:01:30.040 Oh, not that way. I think like to have them 0:01:30.080 --> 0:01:32.000 like sorted out, like where were you on that night? 0:01:32.360 --> 0:01:35.160 You know? But genetically they're not the same, right they said, 0:01:37.520 --> 0:01:40.119 what if it's like but yeah, get the parents together 0:01:40.200 --> 0:01:42.480 and find out if it's like some sort of government. 0:01:42.080 --> 0:01:46.240 Experiences are I was like the idea that God only 0:01:46.240 --> 0:01:49.200 has so many faces and just like I got here, 0:01:49.200 --> 0:01:52.200 you go, you get the there you go. 0:01:53.600 --> 0:01:56.000 Ridiculous. That is ridiculous. Do you want to know what 0:01:56.040 --> 0:01:59.480 else is ridiculous? Yes? Please filming cameos? 0:02:00.080 --> 0:02:00.560 What what. 0:02:20.840 --> 0:02:21.120 This is? 0:02:21.240 --> 0:02:25.720 Ridiculous? Crime A podcast about absurd and outrageous caper's hes 0:02:25.880 --> 0:02:29.960 and cons. It's always ninety nine percent murder free. And 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.480 you know what ridiculous? 0:02:32.680 --> 0:02:34.720 I know you heard that you did? 0:02:35.720 --> 0:02:38.840 Sweet baby hotcakes? Have I got one for you? Today's 0:02:38.840 --> 0:02:44.680 are really my goodness, especially sweet ones. Con artists scammer. Yeah. 0:02:44.680 --> 0:02:48.040 I love con artists. Yes, And part of the thing 0:02:48.080 --> 0:02:51.760 about them is that they're always they're shameless. Yes, they 0:02:51.960 --> 0:02:54.799 will say absolutely whatever it takes to get what they want. 0:02:54.680 --> 0:02:55.320 To move forward. 0:02:55.440 --> 0:02:58.720 Yes, right, here is a case study in just that. 0:02:59.040 --> 0:03:02.480 Really like saying what people want to hear, knowing an 0:03:02.520 --> 0:03:06.440 audience and working it and then being super audacious in 0:03:06.520 --> 0:03:09.639 how you take and use the scammed money and power. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.280 Huh So this is like a Mount Rushmore level scammer. 0:03:12.840 --> 0:03:16.360 Yes, I should not, but I love this guy. 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:17.880 Ooh conflict. 0:03:18.120 --> 0:03:22.840 He's terrible and I deeply, deeply disagree with him about 0:03:22.880 --> 0:03:23.720 pretty much everything. 0:03:23.760 --> 0:03:26.560 That's what I feel about Pablo Escobar, right. See, I 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:30.959 have a begrudging respect for him. He's horrible, horrendous. I 0:03:30.960 --> 0:03:33.240 would never say and stand by anything he's ever done. 0:03:33.280 --> 0:03:36.080 I would apologize anything to anyone who's ever hurt, but 0:03:36.120 --> 0:03:38.000 I will still sit there and go I love the Yeah, 0:03:38.520 --> 0:03:39.520 that's an idea. 0:03:39.600 --> 0:03:44.120 He he's so entertaining and he's so messy, and his 0:03:44.200 --> 0:03:46.440 wings have been clipped, so he's not the danger that 0:03:46.480 --> 0:03:47.160 he once was. 0:03:47.240 --> 0:03:49.240 Okay, Saren, I want. 0:03:49.080 --> 0:03:54.440 To tell you all about disgraced former congress person George Sam. 0:03:54.680 --> 0:03:57.680 Oh my god. We're going there. We're going there. We're 0:03:57.680 --> 0:03:59.720 going to the mountaint. You're taking to the. 0:03:59.680 --> 0:04:02.920 Mountain, Santos baby, I want to. 0:04:02.840 --> 0:04:04.440 Tell you I was already getting rare. 0:04:04.880 --> 0:04:11.080 Okay. He was born George Anthony Devald Santos July twenty second, 0:04:11.120 --> 0:04:11.920 nineteen eighty eight. 0:04:12.040 --> 0:04:14.800 Divald. So he really is Brazilian. Got one of them 0:04:14.800 --> 0:04:18.839 German names. Slid in there, sneaky in Queen's. 0:04:19.040 --> 0:04:20.000 He was born in Queens. 0:04:20.040 --> 0:04:26.320 Oh, that's his family is spider Man's from there, Peterborough. 0:04:27.000 --> 0:04:30.440 His family's from Brazil. As you said, they're all immigrants 0:04:30.480 --> 0:04:32.520 who came to this country looking for a better life. 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:37.400 They took hard jobs. His mom was a housekeeper, cook, nanny. 0:04:38.000 --> 0:04:40.080 His dad was one of your people, a house painter. 0:04:40.320 --> 0:04:42.080 Oh yes, good people, salt to. 0:04:42.040 --> 0:04:44.920 The earth folks. Right. His childhood was rough. They were 0:04:44.960 --> 0:04:46.240 super super poor. 0:04:46.080 --> 0:04:47.320 The cowboys of construction. 0:04:47.760 --> 0:04:53.279 Right. They lived in terrible conditions in Jackson Heights, Queen's. 0:04:54.320 --> 0:04:56.440 But his mom did everything that she could to still 0:04:56.480 --> 0:04:58.840 get George, Like the little things that would make him 0:04:58.880 --> 0:04:59.960 feel like a regular kid. 0:05:00.160 --> 0:05:01.080 Oh so, like. 0:05:01.160 --> 0:05:03.520 Toys and stuff when they had absolutely nothing. She would 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.560 scrape together make sure he had like nice Yeah. Yeah, 0:05:07.640 --> 0:05:10.760 his dad took off, but his mom just kept plugging away, 0:05:10.920 --> 0:05:13.000 like doing the best for her two kids. He has 0:05:13.040 --> 0:05:17.359 a sister. So this hard scrabble life put George in 0:05:17.440 --> 0:05:21.600 positions of having to make choices like to be truthful 0:05:21.720 --> 0:05:22.600 or to tell a lie. 0:05:22.680 --> 0:05:24.719 Ah, those types of choices to crime. 0:05:24.520 --> 0:05:26.799 Or not to cryme ah. Yes, yeah, and he didn't 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:31.520 always make the right choices, No, our Georgie, our little Georgie. 0:05:31.800 --> 0:05:35.200 In my research, it became apparent that George told the 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:39.000 world lies, created falsehoods that were just the life that 0:05:39.080 --> 0:05:40.000 he wanted to live. 0:05:40.600 --> 0:05:43.080 Oh so he's a fabulous of his own telling. He's 0:05:43.080 --> 0:05:44.760 not trying to impress you, He's trying to almost impress 0:05:44.800 --> 0:05:45.720 himself exactly. 0:05:45.760 --> 0:05:48.960 And it seems it seems like he almost couldn't control himself, 0:05:48.960 --> 0:05:52.880 like he lied about everything, and he uses and use 0:05:53.040 --> 0:05:56.440 and uses his lies to manipulate situations and get ahead, 0:05:56.480 --> 0:05:57.719 like he's always hustling. 0:05:57.800 --> 0:06:01.000 Okay, he has no relationship to truth? Is that none 0:06:01.400 --> 0:06:02.480 unless forced upon. 0:06:02.440 --> 0:06:05.640 Him, right, and even then then he's like, no, that's 0:06:05.680 --> 0:06:07.280 not get behind me safe. 0:06:08.640 --> 0:06:09.000 Like he did. 0:06:09.080 --> 0:06:11.400 He didn't graduate from high school. He got a ged, 0:06:11.600 --> 0:06:13.720 but he told everyone that he went to this really 0:06:13.760 --> 0:06:19.080 prestigious and expensive New York school horuce Man, Okay, and 0:06:19.160 --> 0:06:19.560 he did not. 0:06:19.880 --> 0:06:21.520 It seems like it's small enough and be hard to 0:06:21.560 --> 0:06:24.240 like get by if anybody's ever been there, be like, man, 0:06:24.279 --> 0:06:24.920 you aren't a man. 0:06:25.000 --> 0:06:26.800 Well, and then the thing is, though, is it like 0:06:27.000 --> 0:06:29.560 even when faced with all this evidence, when people are like, 0:06:29.600 --> 0:06:31.400 we went through one hundred and twenty eight years of 0:06:31.440 --> 0:06:39.040 their yearbooks, like they searched their database, they went through records. No, no, no, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:43.039 Divulder like, yeah, you're not a time traveler. No iterations 0:06:43.080 --> 0:06:46.040 of your name. He's like, well, then I went there. 0:06:46.800 --> 0:06:49.160 What's the problem? Talk to them about theeper. 0:06:49.320 --> 0:06:52.320 So he would tell tales about his mom being this 0:06:52.440 --> 0:06:58.080 major Republican donor, like like canvassing for Rudy Giuliani. 0:06:57.800 --> 0:06:59.440 Actually a major Democratic donor. 0:06:59.520 --> 0:07:01.600 No, she she just was like not politically. She had 0:07:01.640 --> 0:07:03.760 like shaky immigration status. 0:07:03.839 --> 0:07:05.960 Oh right right, and he's not going to be out 0:07:06.000 --> 0:07:06.840 there going knocking on doors. 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:09.640 He said that she was like this high powered financier 0:07:09.840 --> 0:07:13.280 in an office in the World Trade Center. I mean 0:07:13.440 --> 0:07:16.200 she was surrounded by wealth in her job because she 0:07:16.280 --> 0:07:19.240 was a housekeeper to all these like fortune five hundred families. 0:07:19.640 --> 0:07:22.120 Wow. So she was close enough for him to observe 0:07:22.160 --> 0:07:23.880 it so he could speak knowledgeably about it. 0:07:23.960 --> 0:07:28.000 That's exactly it he said. He graduated from Baruk College 0:07:28.120 --> 0:07:31.400 with a degree in economics and finance, and then he 0:07:31.440 --> 0:07:35.480 also had an MBA from NYU and Nope on both 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.000 super he was like flamboyant guy. He is a flamboyant guy. 0:07:40.720 --> 0:07:43.320 He married as a young young man. He married a 0:07:43.360 --> 0:07:47.680 really beautiful Brazilian woman and people were like, huh, I 0:07:47.760 --> 0:07:51.800 didn't think the women didn't think that what was interested. 0:07:52.520 --> 0:07:54.200 A lot of people thought maybe it was like a 0:07:54.240 --> 0:07:58.200 beard because he had such a conservative family. The relationship 0:07:58.240 --> 0:08:01.240 didn't last long. It was like pretty much concluded to 0:08:01.280 --> 0:08:04.440 be a citizenship thing for her, for her to get 0:08:04.440 --> 0:08:05.280 her a green card. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:09.120 So it worked out for both of them. Yeah, glationship 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:09.760 and so like he. 0:08:09.760 --> 0:08:14.320 Wasn't out per se, he just wasn't telling. But he 0:08:14.520 --> 0:08:16.760 like he wouldn't talk about the whole marriage. 0:08:16.880 --> 0:08:20.440 It wasn't actual. There was no romance. He's not like, okay, no. 0:08:20.400 --> 0:08:22.800 But so he went back and forth to Brazil to 0:08:22.840 --> 0:08:24.560 see his family, and a lot of times when he 0:08:24.640 --> 0:08:27.400 was there he would go by the name Anthony Divolder. 0:08:28.720 --> 0:08:30.880 He told people he met there that his dad was 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.800 like this super rich guy in New York. One of 0:08:33.840 --> 0:08:35.840 the times he was there, two thousand and five, he 0:08:35.920 --> 0:08:42.079 participated in this absolutely raucous Pride celebration in drag And 0:08:42.120 --> 0:08:45.360 there's this book called The Fabuloust, which is interesting. You 0:08:45.400 --> 0:08:50.480 should you know, describe him as such by Mark Chuisano. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:54.040 It's all about George sure, and in it the author 0:08:54.080 --> 0:08:56.480 tells the story of George at this Pride parade and 0:08:56.520 --> 0:09:00.920 how he got interviewed by a TV crew. Quote the interviewee, 0:09:01.000 --> 0:09:05.120 who is indeed Santos, according to friends and ex friends 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:08.480 of the future Congressman, has the confidence of youth he's 0:09:08.520 --> 0:09:12.319 not yet twenty, the breathlessness of a party, of nighttime, 0:09:12.440 --> 0:09:15.280 of being one among many and not alone. He is 0:09:15.360 --> 0:09:19.480 far from Queen's He is unfettered by familial authority, figures 0:09:19.480 --> 0:09:23.679 and restrictions. He revels in this permissive, affirming culture, just 0:09:23.720 --> 0:09:26.280 a nice change in general, from the same old, same 0:09:26.320 --> 0:09:29.840 old atmosphere back home. He nonchalantly grabs a pair of 0:09:29.880 --> 0:09:32.920 sunglasses off a less than fully clad man next to him, 0:09:33.480 --> 0:09:37.280 dawns them the sunglasses with the explanation that they're required 0:09:37.360 --> 0:09:40.000 since he fudged his makeup. He lights up when a 0:09:40.040 --> 0:09:43.720 microphone enters the frame. True to current form, Santos also 0:09:43.760 --> 0:09:47.679 gets in some self promotion about his presentations or performances 0:09:47.960 --> 0:09:50.400 at the big rio drag clubs of the era, like 0:09:50.520 --> 0:09:54.120 Cascadura or even La Bois. Then the interview ends with 0:09:54.200 --> 0:09:58.040 Santos's hand skimming smoothly across the semi bare chest of 0:09:58.080 --> 0:10:01.640 the formerly sunglassed man us for a TV ready accessory. 0:10:02.120 --> 0:10:05.720 It's a beautiful night in Knitroy. It is a beautiful 0:10:05.720 --> 0:10:09.360 time to be uninhibited, to be alive. So you have 0:10:09.400 --> 0:10:12.800 this young guy living it up best life. This will 0:10:12.800 --> 0:10:16.959 come back to haunt him later, but in that moment, 0:10:17.520 --> 0:10:22.360 he's living it up. No responsibilities, just dreams. But so 0:10:22.520 --> 0:10:27.079 many contradictions. Like he was doing drag quite a bit then, 0:10:27.240 --> 0:10:28.840 and it's something that he later denied. 0:10:29.040 --> 0:10:31.920 Was he really at boy in those big drag places. 0:10:31.600 --> 0:10:33.840 That I don't know if that was, but I know 0:10:33.880 --> 0:10:38.599 that there are people in Brazil who confirm, Oh yeah, 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:42.080 he brought like expensive materials from New York down to 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:47.080 Brazil that people couldn't get to make costumes. Now, he, 0:10:47.320 --> 0:10:49.839 you know, posts on social media about how there are 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:55.280 only two genders and is very gender traditionalists. 0:10:54.400 --> 0:10:56.960 Pretty far in the needle fliph. 0:10:56.440 --> 0:10:59.880 But the thing is his whole family were big Bolscenaro 0:11:00.120 --> 0:11:01.280 fans in Brazil. 0:11:01.480 --> 0:11:04.000 I could see that Latin American politicis he was, even 0:11:04.000 --> 0:11:06.120 though Bolsonnaro total homophobe. 0:11:06.640 --> 0:11:08.640 But it's the kind of contradiction we'll see a lot 0:11:08.679 --> 0:11:09.600 of with George. 0:11:09.720 --> 0:11:12.720 Yeah, their idea of conservative politics hasn't quite a line 0:11:12.800 --> 0:11:15.000 with ours, you know. I mean, it may seem like it, 0:11:15.040 --> 0:11:17.160 but it's a different but like the you know, No, 0:11:17.160 --> 0:11:19.199 I'm not trying to not excusing Bolsonaro or saying that 0:11:19.240 --> 0:11:20.760 he's not I'm saying, but I mean that the people 0:11:20.760 --> 0:11:23.320 who choose the people that they're voting for, they're not 0:11:23.320 --> 0:11:25.600 thinking the I'm a Democrat or a Republican the way 0:11:25.640 --> 0:11:27.079 that we might think of those categories. 0:11:27.080 --> 0:11:31.160 I just think that if someone was so just violently homophobic, 0:11:31.200 --> 0:11:32.640 like you would think he would. 0:11:32.559 --> 0:11:34.240 Say, you would think yeah. But That's what I'm trying 0:11:34.240 --> 0:11:37.120 to say, is that they look at the material politics different, right. 0:11:37.080 --> 0:11:41.600 Right, So Georgia, there's stuff in Brazil. He stole a 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:44.200 check book and committed check fraud. That was in two 0:11:44.240 --> 0:11:46.679 thousand and eight. He confessed to the crime, but then 0:11:46.720 --> 0:11:49.719 he fled the country and he was actually a fugitive 0:11:49.800 --> 0:11:53.880 for that until twenty twenty three from Brazil and George, yeah, 0:11:54.400 --> 0:11:55.440 back in New York though. 0:11:55.280 --> 0:11:57.280 So now I can't go home or ye back exactly, 0:11:57.400 --> 0:11:57.679 and so. 0:11:57.640 --> 0:12:00.960 He's back in New York. He keeps plugging along. He 0:12:01.320 --> 0:12:05.080 had a gig at the Dish Network call center, okay, 0:12:05.320 --> 0:12:07.640 and he lied to all these people there about how 0:12:07.640 --> 0:12:10.000 he came from this wealthy Brazilian family and they're like, well, 0:12:10.000 --> 0:12:11.920 then why are you working in this call center? 0:12:12.440 --> 0:12:14.719 Either way, does your family not like it? 0:12:14.760 --> 0:12:17.640 He got another job working for a company called Hotels 0:12:17.720 --> 0:12:20.160 Pro not really sure what that is, some sort of 0:12:20.160 --> 0:12:23.640 booking technology thing. He actually moved to Florida for a 0:12:23.679 --> 0:12:25.880 little bit and worked for them there. Then he went 0:12:25.960 --> 0:12:28.040 back to New York and he got a gig at 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:33.000 link Bridge Investors, some investment fund firm. He would later 0:12:33.080 --> 0:12:34.960 say that he was a vice president there, but he 0:12:35.080 --> 0:12:38.520 was not. He was a freelancer who worked on the mission. 0:12:39.800 --> 0:12:43.080 In January of twenty twenty, he got a job with 0:12:43.240 --> 0:12:47.000 Harbor City Capital and that's a Florida based investment firm. 0:12:47.760 --> 0:12:51.120 He was their New York regional director and he told 0:12:51.160 --> 0:12:54.160 people that he was managing one and a half billion 0:12:54.280 --> 0:12:57.920 dollars in funds for Harbor City and with a fixed 0:12:57.960 --> 0:13:00.960 yield of twelve percent and an internal rate of return 0:13:01.040 --> 0:13:04.400 of twenty six percent. Wow, does that sound shady? 0:13:04.640 --> 0:13:07.080 No, Elizabeth, that sounds completely above board. 0:13:07.240 --> 0:13:10.080 Thereon, it was shady, this is but it wasn't all 0:13:10.160 --> 0:13:13.200 George on that one. The SEC would go on later 0:13:13.280 --> 0:13:15.840 to file a civil suit against Harbor City the whole 0:13:15.880 --> 0:13:19.000 company for running a seventeen million dollars ponzi scheme. 0:13:19.040 --> 0:13:21.280 Oh so they're all George Santa. He got a job 0:13:21.320 --> 0:13:25.880 with a Yeah, it's I know, real, recognized, real, exactly, 0:13:26.640 --> 0:13:28.400 fake recognized, fake, want to put it. 0:13:28.520 --> 0:13:31.760 Luckily they let him go from the from the company 0:13:31.800 --> 0:13:33.640 before the chips hit the fan on that one. 0:13:33.760 --> 0:13:36.320 Oh so, but it was he left. 0:13:36.400 --> 0:13:38.280 They got rid of him because he was involved in 0:13:38.320 --> 0:13:40.960 something else, something that was taking up more of his time. 0:13:41.240 --> 0:13:42.720 Was that politics, baby? 0:13:42.880 --> 0:13:44.040 Oh right, we had to get to that. 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:47.640 So so George had announced in November of twenty nineteen 0:13:47.679 --> 0:13:50.600 that he was running for New York's third congressional district 0:13:50.640 --> 0:13:56.200 as the Republican candidate. This is like Long Island, Northeastern Queens. 0:13:56.200 --> 0:13:59.720 It's a pretty Democrat, yeah, exactly, district. 0:13:59.360 --> 0:14:00.800 Affluence su Bourbon voters. 0:14:00.800 --> 0:14:02.800 But they're like, why run for that district. 0:14:02.960 --> 0:14:10.480 Yeah, basically, his opponent, Thomas Swosey, incumbent Democrat, was like 0:14:10.600 --> 0:14:14.720 a moderate voice for the Dems running for his third term. 0:14:14.720 --> 0:14:17.280 So this is just like this is kamikaze mission. 0:14:17.920 --> 0:14:19.480 So George, somebody had to run. 0:14:19.920 --> 0:14:22.560 Why why not me? So George, he runs on this 0:14:22.720 --> 0:14:27.520 conservative Republican platform. He's all about Donald Trump and MAGA, 0:14:28.240 --> 0:14:33.560 lower taxes, hardline immigration policies, uh huh, support for Israel, 0:14:34.160 --> 0:14:39.480 opposition to abortion, and LGBTQ plus curriculum in schools. And 0:14:39.560 --> 0:14:41.320 I don't forget at this point he's totally out as 0:14:41.320 --> 0:14:45.000 a gay man. But whatever he had come out of nowhere, 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:48.880 nobody knew, really knew him, and he wasn't deeply entrenched 0:14:48.920 --> 0:14:52.520 in local GOP politics. So party officials later said, well, 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:55.120 you know, we're like, no one's interested in running, Like 0:14:55.160 --> 0:14:57.680 you said, like no one wants to do it. COVID's 0:14:57.760 --> 0:15:01.080 going on, you know, But here there's George. He hands 0:15:01.080 --> 0:15:03.720 in this phony resume full of all the information that 0:15:03.800 --> 0:15:07.160 they wanted to hear. He told him the story they wanted. Oh, 0:15:07.240 --> 0:15:09.720 so he goes hard on the campaign trail. He really 0:15:09.720 --> 0:15:13.160 pushed like this amazing background he'd created for himself. He's 0:15:13.160 --> 0:15:16.479 not the son of struggling immigrants with shaky legal status. 0:15:16.840 --> 0:15:19.440 He's not the guy who struggled and worked in call centers. No, 0:15:19.640 --> 0:15:23.520 he's like, look, I have this degree. I you know, 0:15:23.680 --> 0:15:26.600 I have an MBA. He added some spice in there too. 0:15:26.640 --> 0:15:29.280 He's like, I worked for Goldman Sachson City Group as 0:15:29.280 --> 0:15:32.720 a Wall Street executive. He said that he was Jewish 0:15:32.800 --> 0:15:34.920 and descended from Holocaust survivors. 0:15:35.120 --> 0:15:35.640 Wow. 0:15:36.080 --> 0:15:39.240 He said that as a finance bro he lost four 0:15:39.320 --> 0:15:42.320 employees at the Pulse night club shooting in twenty sixteen. 0:15:42.520 --> 0:15:44.640 Oh wow, if it's a tragedy, he's attaching himself. 0:15:44.720 --> 0:15:47.200 Uh huh. He said that he ran an animal rescue 0:15:47.280 --> 0:15:50.120 charity that saved twenty five hundred animals. 0:15:50.520 --> 0:15:52.920 Wow. Did he lose both of his parents and two 0:15:52.920 --> 0:15:54.880 step parents in the nine to eleven fell? 0:15:55.000 --> 0:15:58.640 Well? Is there? So he said all these things. No 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.560 one bats an eyelash. They just said wow. Cool. He 0:16:02.640 --> 0:16:04.280 said like, look, I don't make a whole lot of 0:16:04.280 --> 0:16:07.240 money fifty five grand a year, and it's based on 0:16:07.280 --> 0:16:08.880 like commission based work. 0:16:09.520 --> 0:16:11.920 He was not going hard federal election. 0:16:12.240 --> 0:16:14.880 Uh huh. Oh wow, not going hard on all his 0:16:14.920 --> 0:16:18.479 big baller Wall Street claims. At this point, his campaign 0:16:18.600 --> 0:16:20.880 raised about three hundred thousand dollars, which is like a 0:16:20.880 --> 0:16:23.560 pretty small amount for a New York district that's competitive. 0:16:24.120 --> 0:16:27.600 Election night, November third, twenty twenty, votes are tallied, he 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:31.440 loses by twelve percentage points. That's actually closer than everyone. 0:16:31.720 --> 0:16:33.440 Yeah, totally. I would have thought it's been like twenty 0:16:33.600 --> 0:16:34.920 So the Republicans. 0:16:34.440 --> 0:16:36.560 Are like, wait, we may have a fighting chance for 0:16:36.600 --> 0:16:39.880 a rematch in two years, twenty twenty two. But George 0:16:39.920 --> 0:16:42.560 wasn't looking to twenty twenty two. He was living full 0:16:42.600 --> 0:16:46.320 on twenty twenty because he refused to accept his loss. 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:49.840 He said that the vote totals had been manipulated, and 0:16:49.880 --> 0:16:52.840 he started pushing for a recount. She night cost money, 0:16:53.480 --> 0:16:55.440 and he figured he would be like, you know, half 0:16:55.480 --> 0:16:59.000 of the Democratic ballots are bogus, and the National Republicans 0:16:59.000 --> 0:17:00.800 are like, we're not going to fund this, but we 0:17:00.920 --> 0:17:03.760 like the cut of your jim, the energy. I love this. 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.920 Did you did you know that he went to Trump's 0:17:06.920 --> 0:17:10.840 Save America rally at the in DC on January sixth. 0:17:10.840 --> 0:17:12.000 I'm just going to go ahead and say no, I 0:17:12.000 --> 0:17:12.240 did not. 0:17:12.400 --> 0:17:14.840 Yeah, now you know I told you I disagree with 0:17:14.920 --> 0:17:17.600 him to my core. Yeah, he's quoted in all these 0:17:17.600 --> 0:17:20.800 places as saying that, like Trump was energized, gave a 0:17:20.800 --> 0:17:24.679 great speech, was quote at his full awesomeness. And we 0:17:24.760 --> 0:17:27.080 know what happened after that quote great speech, right, this 0:17:27.160 --> 0:17:32.200 is violent mob. It was just tourists, Darren insurrectionist mob 0:17:32.640 --> 0:17:35.600 attacked the capital, disrupt the counting of the electoral votes 0:17:35.680 --> 0:17:38.639 to formalize Trump's loss, called for the death of the 0:17:38.720 --> 0:17:42.920 vice president, took dumps on desks, the bad pizza party, 0:17:43.080 --> 0:17:45.399 very bad pizza party, like the worst you could go 0:17:45.440 --> 0:17:48.119 to pretty much. So later George told people that he 0:17:48.200 --> 0:17:50.119 was only at the speech and not the building, and 0:17:50.160 --> 0:17:53.400 he called January sixth a quote sad and dark day. 0:17:54.040 --> 0:17:57.919 And then he's like, yeah, you know, Biden, Biden won Georgia. 0:17:59.280 --> 0:18:02.800 So I told the local press, like they they barely 0:18:03.000 --> 0:18:06.160 investigated George's background, our personal claims. 0:18:06.240 --> 0:18:07.000 Yeah, he's not going to win. 0:18:07.119 --> 0:18:09.680 The Democrats did no OPO. 0:18:09.440 --> 0:18:12.119 Research on again, why I waste my money safe? 0:18:12.200 --> 0:18:15.639 Yeah, so his secrets never came out at this and 0:18:15.680 --> 0:18:20.399 then come to find out, redistricting slightly changed New York's 0:18:20.440 --> 0:18:23.080 third congressional district and it made it more favorable to 0:18:23.119 --> 0:18:26.880 the GOP, and George used this momentum and his connections 0:18:26.920 --> 0:18:29.880 from his twenty twenty run to launch a second campaign 0:18:30.000 --> 0:18:33.600 in twenty twenty two, and between twenty twenty and twenty 0:18:33.640 --> 0:18:38.920 twenty two, he drastically inflated his resume, his income, his 0:18:39.000 --> 0:18:42.879 personal narrative, Like he doubled down on every light I 0:18:43.000 --> 0:18:46.640 ever told and was just like, look, they didn't check, 0:18:46.720 --> 0:18:49.040 then they're not going to check. Now, let's take a 0:18:49.080 --> 0:18:51.520 break and we come back from these ads. I'm going 0:18:51.600 --> 0:19:14.680 to tell you about this twenty twenty two race, Zarin. 0:19:14.640 --> 0:19:17.399 Dude, I was reading some about George Santos on the break. 0:19:17.440 --> 0:19:20.240 I did not know that he invented the Corvette Lasagna 0:19:20.400 --> 0:19:24.399 and also mondays he did. Yeah, yeah, it's really amazing. 0:19:24.520 --> 0:19:30.760 It's amazing, George Santos. George Santos. He lost, like we said, 0:19:30.800 --> 0:19:33.760 the New York third Congressional District race in twenty twenty. 0:19:34.720 --> 0:19:36.960 Do you remember how he'd been working for Harbor City 0:19:37.000 --> 0:19:39.879 and that he left to work on the campaign. Around 0:19:39.920 --> 0:19:44.359 that time, he founded a company called Devaulter Organization. 0:19:44.240 --> 0:19:45.040 The Devauter Group. 0:19:45.200 --> 0:19:47.639 Yes, and although he was living in New York, the 0:19:47.680 --> 0:19:51.520 company was registered in Florida, and on financial disclosure forms. 0:19:51.840 --> 0:19:55.919 He called it a quote capital introduction consulting firm. What 0:19:55.960 --> 0:19:56.719 does that even mean? 0:19:56.840 --> 0:19:58.040 Introduction consulting. 0:19:58.119 --> 0:19:59.160 Show me the money firm. 0:19:59.440 --> 0:20:02.320 I'll introduce the money. This is money money, say holo. 0:20:02.440 --> 0:20:06.040 Hello. When he was eyeballing the new run in twenty 0:20:06.080 --> 0:20:08.680 twenty two because the incumbent wasn't going to run again, 0:20:09.119 --> 0:20:12.800 all of a sudden, his reported personal income changed. None 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:15.800 of his fifty grand a year stuff anymore. He said 0:20:15.800 --> 0:20:18.440 that he earned between three and a half to eleven 0:20:18.440 --> 0:20:21.440 and a half million dollars from the Devauld organization. 0:20:21.520 --> 0:20:22.359 It's quite a spread. 0:20:22.440 --> 0:20:24.800 That's a come up. Yeah, from fifty grand to that. 0:20:25.000 --> 0:20:25.560 Look at him. 0:20:25.600 --> 0:20:28.280 He said he was the sole owner and managing member 0:20:28.320 --> 0:20:31.200 of the company and that they managed eighty million dollars 0:20:31.280 --> 0:20:33.679 in assets. It's a big organization. 0:20:33.920 --> 0:20:34.720 I get a job, George. 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.920 How many employees? How many employees do you think? He had? 0:20:38.800 --> 0:20:40.080 Seven named George Santos. 0:20:40.160 --> 0:20:44.240 That's right, zero, yeah, yeah. Fun fact. The company's mailing 0:20:44.240 --> 0:20:48.199