Man says George Santos pitched investment in firm Feds call a Ponzi scheme
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- Опубликовано: 24 янв 2023
- CNN's Laura Coates speaks with Christian Lopez and his attorney Tiffany Bogosian about a 2020 dinner during which Lopez says George Santos tried to get him to invest $300,000 in a firm that Federal authorities say is a Ponzi scheme. Santos has denied any wrongdoing.
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I think it's hilarious that my hubby and I have to pass background checks for our jobs but congress people don't have to pass one at all or even use their real names.
I have been saying this same thing. Even fast food employees have to pass a background check.
Except if the parents are republicans. Then this is exactly how they want their kids to grow up
@@cfcfan1 yes because to quote McCarthy integrity matters lol.
What do you expect, McCarrthy is a garbage human.
Me too, I'm in real estate as a sales agent. Barely getting my license and I've had two background checks, a fitness determination and finger prints!
And the Speaker continues to stand by him.
Yeah, right! Kevin is obsessed with this pathological liar, conman George Santos, and because of his vote, he became speaker.
He beat the left at their own game. Boohoo.
Well they're all crooks, it's just George leaves more evidence. I mean at least he didn't enable sexual abuse like Jim Jordan, is probably what Kevin is thinking 🤷♂️
@@beverlyweaver1280 That's what Creepy Corrupt Pedophile Joe and Nancy 'Insider Trading' Pelosi said.
I’m surprised he can actually stand without his spine.
This is way beyond sickening.
ponzi scheme? george santos probably promoted crypto scams
Woody Guthrie, have you seen Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman where the sales pitch, the product is antiquated, and the salesman Willy Loman is getting older, outdated, and can no longer provide for his family. Now that is sickening imo.
In this era of fake news, George Santos we now know as a fake, with the aid of powerful allies made a pitch, to mostly wealthy, above average educated, and supposedly well informed people, for their vote so he could become their Representative in the US Congress. Low and behold, with little regard to his background the people of New York's 3rd congressional district, bought George Santos's pitch and elected him as their Congressman. I am not so sure that is sickening. I think it's an all American success story for George Santos, in these some might say falsity times we are living in.
@@jamesdolan4042 Arthur Miller was from Coney Island and is an alumnus of Abraham Lincoln HS. Also my own alma mater. Other well known celebrities, Louis Gosset Jr. Neil Sedaka, Neil Diamond. I remember them all. I forgot Joseph Heller (Catch 22).
I was a teacher back in the 60's and became convinced that the degradation of the American Educational System would cause the nation's downfall. The "election" of the Petulant Putz in 2016 was the exclamation point. A total phony born on 3rd base who thought he hit a triple. An uneducated, incompetent doofus who inherited $400 million and proceeded to fail at everything in his entire miserable existence. Yet 74 million were conned into voting for him.
Let's be optimistic that in 2024 the country regains some semblance of sanity.
Beyond.
I agree 100% Woody! I LOATHE this guy. June 30th won't come too soon, in my book!
That fact that his lawyer was there and she's recounting this on the news says a lot. It literally gets worse every day.
Goldman Sachs should sue him.
@@gordon-1 We should ALL sue him.
LOL...his treasurer just quit and he named another treasurer who says he didn't agree to take the job! 😂
Someone committed fraud by signing his name too.
hahahahahahhahaha... hot potato
My kids’ school has invited George Santos to come dressed as a Drag Queen and read their class a book. The book Santos will read is Mein Kampf. How Woke is that?
@@tomthomassony8607 Tom, that was your mother. How many times we have to go over this?!
@@tomthomassony8607 You people are losing your minds on a world stage .
Santos must feel at home in congress... he's surrounded by so many like minded individuals.
at this point a ponzi scheme is not even surprising coming from kitara ravache
This is the guy who is going to be handling secrets and politicians do not have to disclose their donors, well done supreme court
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Nothing to see here, folks. Move it along, or it’s to the “tombs” with ya
Do you think he'll take classified documents? Do you think those classified documents will turn up later in his office, home and garage? Lmao.
@@elmosweed4985 No, he and Hunter have already gotten all the money they can out of them. Creepy Joe's through with them. I assume you're referring to President Trump in your dumb comment. Literally nothing you said anywhere resembles the sequence of events, CNN-watching halfwit.
the supreme court justices lifetime appointment is a detriment to democracy.
Good thing Lopez listened to his gut.
The UK primeminister got fired for essentially having people at his house in lockdown. This guy still has a job even though its clear he is a huge fraudster. Its trully insane.
Sounds like Goldman Saks needs to SUE??
Sachs. and what can they possibly get out of him? You don't actually think he has any money?
"Misrepresentation refers to an assertion or manifestation not in accordance with the truth. Both words and conduct that obscure the true facts or create a misleading impression may be considered a form of misrepresentation.
Misrepresentation can be both a civil wrong (a tort) or a criminal wrong. If the misrepresentation rises to the level of fraud, a defendant can face serious legal consequences. Misrepresentation can occur in the creation of contracts and in many different industries. When misrepresentation involves corporate financial statements or facts about securities and commodities, misrepresentation may be classified as a type of investment fraud."
@Some Guy FG is right and you are wrong! Misrepresentation does come with legal consequences when pursued.
Isn’t impersonating a Goldman employee falsely and soliciting funds in itself ILLEGAL??
Santos is a lying criminal.
Which means he’s perfect for the GQP.
Straight up poster boy.
Acer.🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🏿
@@pollard068 Hey it's *False-Equivalency Boy!*
@@pollard068 nice try….there is no one in the Democratic Party who is remotely like santos
"This is a sitting member of Congress".... Just close your eyes for a moment and let that sink in. This is yet another reminder why most people have a strong dislike for politics and politicians. What truly blows my mind is that an actual convict could never get a job as a CEO at some corporation but they can become..... a sitting member of Congress. What a backwards system this is.
Wait a few months. You can amend your sentence to: An actual convict can become the President of the United States.
This case should be high priority as the longer it goes on the more damage this guy can do. He's in on our country's top secrets.
George Santos never voted for mask mandates or restaurant closures. They have to get rid of him, he is not controlled by FTX money or Epstein travel records.
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"Speak out,
You've got to speak out against the madness..."
RIP David Crosby
George Anthony Devolder Santos is everything parents teach their children not to be.
I think you're missing a few names there 🤣
Yes but he's been rewarded with a seat in Congress. The lesson for the kids is being a con artist is the path to power. Honesty is for suckers.
@@BigBadJerryRogers Extremely Sad, but so true.
Today's g.o.p.
g.o.p. = gang of pinochles
G.o.p. = gaseous objectionable party! PU
@@BigBadJerryRogers
He is no different from Trump and he got elected President.
This Santos dude is so in over his head. What a delusional world he lives in.
It does not seem to matter since there seems to be no consequences for him over any of it. And now he's in Congress. Whenever he leaves he'll probably make money capitalizing on all this somehow too
There are no consequences for any bad behavior with any GOP. In fact, this bad behavior gets them rewarded with Committee assignments. Just a Sick political Mess we are living thru.
g.o.p. land
g.o.p. gaseous objectionable party! PU
g.o.p. = gang of pinochles
His Netflix Docuseries is going to be the weirdest true story ever.
@@elmosweed4985 Tucker would have pushed the envelope. He would have pointed out that Santos never went to Epstein Island. Santos never took FTX campaign contributions. Santos fooled his constituents by running as their ethnic candidate, with their ethnic university and occupation on the resume, with the correct geography in his heritage. Santos has shown the world that his district votes for their ethnicity first and foremost. That is what Tucker would report had George Santos been a Democrat.
The son Trump always wanted!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Right. Don jr is no longer the heir.. He's now the spare 🤣🤣🤣
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ruben.
@@29lookingood 💯 correct 😆 🤣 😂 😹
And the dude is a Congressman 😆 🤣 😂 😹 😆
One thing is certain: he’s heavily invested in his stupid sweater-blazer hipster look🤣
Am quite certain of the opposite, though.
It’s literally a disguise. As soon as he’s home I bet he takes it off and puts on his Russian colonel uniform.
That is NOT a hipster look. Punching bag, but not a hipster.
@@xvi1128 He takes off his girdle and bra and puts on a wig and feather boa.
He's such a Baby Huey!
He looks like Ellen with that combo to me.
Hey Santos! Sounds like all your chickens are coming home to roost alllllll at once. You better build a few more chicken coops… it’s getting pretty crowded out there.
Did they roost when Biden lied about being top of he's class all the degree etc turned out to be a lie.. USA =corruption
After he gets out of prison, spamtoast is going
to have to find another country to grift in
because he will Never get another job in America
G.o.p. gaseous objectionable party! PU
Hope he gets "a playful take on the Pasard Egg" before they finally arrest him...
@@elmosweed4985 g.o.p. = gang of Pinocchios
It just gets better and better.
@Let the flames takeover You're here to bud. Keep that in mind.
Thank you, to these people for coming forward. I hope more people will follow suit, so we can pressure merrick garland to do his job.
Santos is like the Obi-Wan of swindling and Trump is his Qui-Gon.
More like Palpatine and Vader.
more like Jar Jar and Boss Nass ... Or Bib Fortuna and Jabba the Hutt
not like the squeaky clean democrats!
Beating the left at their own game makes him Obi-Wan? Lol got it. Nancy 'Insider Trading' Pelosi is horrified.
the people they swindle are dopes, have you ever noticed? like if it wasn't trump or santos, it would be somebody else cut from the same imitation material.
One thing is so very true: Santos tried very hard to consistently be on a ' Con'.
We are watching corruption in US politics and it seems to be ok…….our government hiring process and justice systems are the problem!
Santos seems to be enjoyiing the attention.
He's performed as a drag queen and is now getting into politics. Of course he likes the attention.
Yup. Any other person who wasn't sick in the head would have already resigned out of dignity and embarrassment. He's sick
Yes. He's digging it. I'd like to wipe that fecking smile off his face.
Narcissists always do!
Mostly Trump and his back up singers at the goddamn capitol who still in office.
The look on Laura's face could be a meme for being gob-smacked. She clearly was not expecting to hear Ms. Bogosian say Santos presented himself as a Goldman Saks employee & made no mention of Harbourside. As we keep hearing new things about Santos, its amazing that new revelations are often even more outrageous than the craziness we already heard.
We are still waiting for the big reveal: who bought that seat!
@@them0ther I think a big one's going to expose that his marriage was an illegal 'green card marriage'.
@@them0ther the committee seat in the capitol.?
Santos is just WRONG for this job. Get him OUT!
He's right that the people elected him. Now the only people that can get rid of him is congress with a 2/3 majority vote. There is no way in hell the GOP is going to knock their house advantage down a vote for something as ridiculous as principles.
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Even if he ends up prosecuted and sent to prison the GOP won’t remove him from Congress. (There’s no law that prevents you from running for, or holding, office while you’re in prison.)
I’m pretty sure that would prevent him from doing his job and technically can be looked at as job abandonment and then be replaced.
Hippocrits!!1
Gonna have a tough time visiting constituents in Long Island from his Brazilian jail cell!
What he really said was “I work on old man’s sacs” 😂
Secret Service turns over the visitor logs.
So a critical question. If George Santos worked for an investment firm and was soliciting investors for funds, is there any record with the SEC or FINRA, that Santos was properly licensed with a Series 7 and Series 63 license.
I have been saying this too. If he was fronting as a financial advisor or Wall Street Investor----they don't let just anyone do that. You have to be licensed, officially and pass exams. And if he was fronting and was not licensed, well, that's crime in of itself. WHERE'S THE SEC?
Well this destroys Itara's claim that he knew nothing about a Ponzi scheme.
WOW, Tiffany and Christian, DODGED A BULLET.
"It's not a lie if you believe it"...George Santos from Seinfeld
Wow and to think this person now sits in Congress. SMH
How does this individual have a security clearance and nobody is talking about this 🤔
This dude been watching his Coffeezilla. $3000 every 2-3 weeks lol as if
Anybody can rent a meeting room for 1,2,3 hours. Attorneys, professionals do this all the time.
Of course bad people too.
This is just all so bizarre and it just kept getting crazier. Give us a video with curent update PLS!
Thanks so much.
George Santos watched "Catch Me if You Can" one too many times
Santos is an episode of American Greed, a Netflix Tinder Swindler-esque documentary and an HBO doc...this guy will have more crime investigation documentaries then Fyre Festival
Sadly enough America is about greed, nothing else. Its prevalent at every strata of life. Examples are online gambling, and lottery spending.
I wouldn't be surprised if one of his aliases was Paul Ponzi.
Amurica has no decency left.
We do but not this guy. He's a trashy con artist and thief, but Republicans need his vote. They're bringing our entire country down.
Man George Santos is so damn weird
And now he's being put in charge of small business and that will work for Santos just fine: however for small business not so much😈
He's not in charge of it, he's just on the committee, which is bad enough in itself but he's not running the show.
There are a lot of strategies to make tongue-wetting profit especially in this down market, but such sophisticated trades can only be carried out by proper market experts...
Times have changed and now stock market is all about pump and dump leaving retailers as bag holders. Bag holders turned to long term investors will still bag hold and stock might go to zero. There is too much news, too many analysts, too many factors, too many firms, insiders influencing the stock price. Retailer money is being sucked. I made $172k_ combined net last year and paid no Federal taxes legally.
@@justingregory2965 Agreed. I like this mentality. You can never time the bottom but if you're getting good value, take it and in the long term you'll be rewarded :) . Personally I’m always invested because the financial-market for me seem the only way forward with my long time horizon (accrued ROI of over $200k since 2020 )but if you don’t have that fortune of time it’s a tough market out there almost nowhere feels safe!
@@larrytyler823 I've actually been thinking of reaching a portfolio-adviser, my 401k and stocks been losing everything it's gained since 2019, mind if I looked-up this one coach you use?
@@leemarty2765 Having a coach is key to portfolio diversification, My advisor is "Karen Marie Emma" You can easily look her up, she has years of financial market experience
@@larrytyler823 Ive read different comment sections where this name was mentioned but was skeptical, do you give her your money or you copy manually?
If Santos really didn't know the firm that he worked for was a ponzi scheme, he must have been the worst investment counselor in the world.
I like when a dude calls people sir and ma'am. I know those are old-school terms. But, I like paying respect to people that way.
Just do some quick math: if the dude gave Santos $300K ... and then Santos would be giving him back $3K every 2 to 3 weeks ... the dude would not recover his original investment of $300K until 5 or 6 years went by. Man, that's a long con! And a long time for something to go horribly wrong - especially since Santos would not divulge what the money would actually be invested in. Jam-packed full of red flags!
In fact, if he put that money into an interest bearing savings account, with just 3% return ... in 5 years, he would actually be ahead of what Santos was promising by almost $50K. No thanks, George. Sounds like a very, very poor investment scheme. Scheme being the operative word.
There’s something major wrong that you don’t fire cheating Santos America, makes ya all look dumb.
We know he's lying, everybody knows he lying's he's on congress, it ain't that easy just to kick him off, he has to be charged or kicked out by his party or voted out... Americans are as smart as they come lady, stop playing with us, that's why the world follows our lead and wants everything we have and people are literally dying trying to get here.. 🤡🤡🤡
At this point we shouldn't be surprised about anything George or Anthony says.
This guy ran for congress twice in 2020 and 22, why this info did not come to light while he was running?
how many more crimes does this santos needs to be exposed to be seriously investigated and JAILED!!!!
Santos should be in prison, not congress.
Santos.. you guys are getting played.
Well, well. The cat is starting to come out of the bag👍👍👍
A sitting member of Congress-that’s scary and I know he’s still a liar and worse.
Because if you will lie you will steal and if you steal you will kill.
And this man is killing it with the lies😂😂
He needs to GO
Kevin won’t let him go. He needs his vote. Similar to Kevin said he would never let his woman MTG Green go? What is happening between them? I wonder how his wife reacted to what he said. He is the worst comprised losers
Anyone else rather hear about junior high school?
This is right on brand for George
Santos should be removed and locked up
What about Joe and Hunter Biden? Joe just got busted with hundreds of ultra secret papers at his Chinese funded offices at the University of Delaware and Pennsylvania. Or is it cool because everyone knows Joe was compromised by the Chinese a decade ago?
Santos was head of the Federal Reserve bank so I think he’s an expert on investing.
🤣 😂😂
No, you're wrong, it was the IMF.
@@dm5374 Oh right, I get those two confused.
So she went to school with Santos, what name was Santos using when she was at school with him?
Given that she didn't mention it, it suggests she knew him as George Santos (or at least George).
Crap Head!
It seems Santos is eyeing a VP nomination.
good interview
really you must say
How come investigators have not picked this up as a case?
This is a clear representation of the United States. I’m glad I got out of nyc and now living in Tokyo. ✌️
as if tokyo was affordable
Not the point, clown
Clear representation? Oh that's right; political theater only happens in the US. Every other country's politics is perfect lol. Yeah right
The Coen Brothers will make the movie about Mr. Santos' adventures.
When is enough going to be enough?
Santos is a true example of shady criminal waiting for life sentence. He is begging for prison.
Of course !
Santos is a real different type guy lol
Whatever George Santos says, *do not* agree to develop an app with him.
Justice is a joke.
Grifters gonna grift...
why is he always in NY? doing business in NY, claimed he was mugged in 2021 in NY, but this investment firm was in Florida?! and HIS "firm he created" is also in Florida?!
now we know how he got his money!!
some suckers fell for it!
Lolol Santos thinks everybody's an idiot?
Yeah and the bottom line he is still in office ! No one does anything about this crap.
My issue is that when he was running for Congress no one reported this shyt
It is mid of February and Georger Santos is still in congress. Months will pass by, we will talk, and nothing will happen.
WOW. It keeps getting worse on a daily.
"George Santos" AKA "The Ponz"
I am sure there is still more to come from this fool santos.
Boy! He sure dodged a bullet. Did she say they went to junior high school, if so , when did Santo live in Brazil?
A script based on Santos' life would be rejected by the Sy Fy channel.
So glad Laura Coates mention Goodfellas because it was from that restaurant sequence when late great Liotta natriate the names in the restaurant. Great film btw.
The female lawyer talks like a gangster.
Santos : the grift that keeps giving.
Ponzi was a student of Santos
So glad this man did not lose his money. Santos is one pathological liar. Too bad Republicans are complicit with his deceptions and criminal acts.
George Santos should RESIGN period.
He should surrender to his nearest jail.
It seems the only time George Santos lies is when he opens his mouth to speak.
Why did this happen 🤔🤔🤔🥴
Santos knew it was a ponzi scheme. He's lying when he says he didn't knoe.
Typical laundering play
Give me 300k I can't tell you where it's going....6 months later...Your honor I had no idea I was part of a ponzi scheme....wow
CNN your sound is too low. Still thanks for this news !!!