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Law enforcement officers in Brazil will seemingly reinstate fraud costs in opposition to US Rep.-elect George Santos because the New York Republican formally assumes his function within the US House Tuesday beneath a cloud of suspicion over his doubtful resume, the New York Times reported Monday.
According to the Times, prosecutors mentioned they may search a “formal response” from Santos associated to a stolen checkbook in 2008, after police suspended an investigation into him after they had been unable to seek out him for practically a decade.
Authorities, having verified Santos’ location, will make a proper request to the Justice Department to inform him of the costs, Nathaly Ducoulombier, a spokeswoman for the Rio de Janeiro prosecutor’s workplace, instructed the Times.
Act Daily News has reached out to a lawyer for Santos for remark.
The felony case, based on the Times, citing court docket data it has reviewed, stems from a go to Santos made to a small clothes retailer in Niterói, a metropolis exterior of Rio de Janeiro, the place Santos spent practically $700 out of the stolen checkbook utilizing a faux title.
Act Daily News beforehand confirmed reporting from the Times final month that Santos was charged with embezzlement in a Brazilian court docket in 2011, based on case data from the Rio de Janeiro Court of Justice. However, court docket data from 2013 state that the cost was archived after court docket summons went unanswered and so they had been unable to find Santos.
In an interview with the New York Post final week, Santos denied that he had been charged with any crime in Brazil, saying: “I am not a criminal here – not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world. Absolutely not. That didn’t happen.”
Santos flipped a Democratic-held seat, serving to Republicans win a slender House majority. And he’s set to take workplace on Tuesday.
The New York Republican has admitted to mendacity about elements of his resume after The New York Times first revealed on December 19 that Santos’ biography seemed to be partly fictional.
Act Daily News confirmed particulars of that reporting about his faculty schooling and employment historical past and uncovered much more falsehoods from Santos, together with claims he was compelled to go away a New York City personal college when his household’s actual property property took a downturn and that he represented Goldman Sachs at a prime monetary convention.
Santos’ claims that his grandparents fled the Holocaust as Ukrainian Jewish refugees and that his mom died because of being current within the South Tower throughout 9/11 have additionally come beneath scrutiny, Act Daily News’s KFile discovered.
In interviews with WABC radio and the New York Post on December 26, Santos admitted to mendacity about attending Baruch College and New York University in addition to misrepresenting his employment at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup however mentioned on the time he nonetheless supposed to serve in Congress.
Two days later, Act Daily News reported that the US lawyer’s workplace within the Eastern District of New York had begun investigating the funds of Santos, who faces questions over his wealth and loans totaling greater than $700,000 he made to his profitable 2022 marketing campaign.
The similar day, the Nassau County district lawyer’s workplace introduced it was additionally trying into fabrications from Santos.
“No one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it,” Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly mentioned on the time.
The district lawyer’s workplace didn’t specify what fabrications it was exploring and the US lawyer’s workplace within the Eastern District of New York declined to remark.
Act Daily News has reached out to a consultant for Santos for touch upon the probes.
Santos’ FEC studies include numerous uncommon expenditures, together with exorbitant bills on air journey and motels, in addition to numerous bills one penny under the greenback determine above which the FEC requires campaigns to maintain receipts.
“Campaign expenditures for staff members including travel, lodging, and meals are normal expenses of any competent campaign. The suggestion that the Santos campaign engaged in any unlawful spending of campaign funds is irresponsible, at best,” Joe Murray, a lawyer for Santos, mentioned in an announcement to Act Daily News on Saturday.