Speaker 1: Pushkin. Hey, it's Jake. I'm in your feed today to
Speaker 1: tell you about a special mini series that the Deep
Speaker 1: Cover Team is releasing very soon. It's all about George Santos,
Speaker 1: the Republican congressman from New York who told a lot
Speaker 1: of stories about his life and his credentials, many of
Speaker 1: which turns out were not true. And now in just
Speaker 1: a few weeks, Santos is scheduled to face a criminal trial.
Speaker 1: This is a story that my producer Amy Gaines McQuaid
Speaker 1: has been following for a while. She's talked to a
Speaker 1: lot of people try to answer the question, who is
Speaker 1: George Santos?
Speaker 2: Really?
Speaker 3: That's why mister Rickley Neeeds catch me if you can.
Speaker 3: I mean, the guy who'd win to everyone. George Santos
Speaker 3: did not give me access. He became a challenge to me.
Speaker 3: I needed to talk to this man, clearly. I want
Speaker 3: to ask where he got his money from, because that
Speaker 3: was like the big dispepancy, right.
Speaker 4: He was very ambiguous and sketchy, quite quite honestly about
Speaker 4: what the company did and how it made so much
Speaker 4: money overnight.
Speaker 2: What prosecutors a legend the indictment is that most of
Speaker 2: that twelve thousand dollars goes directly to Santos's personal bank account.
Speaker 5: I would go down these rabbit holes and start thinking about,
Speaker 5: like what is the nature of truth? You know, like
Speaker 5: what can I actually like tell the reader is real
Speaker 5: about this guy's story.
Speaker 6: My phone is literally blowing up inquiries about saying, is
Speaker 6: George going to jail? What's going on?
Speaker 2: And I thought, oh.
Speaker 4: My god, this is like.
Speaker 6: Why are you doing?
Speaker 2: Like why deep Cover George Santos coming August nineteenth from
Speaker 2: Pushkin Industries,