Feds Hit Santos With More Charges: Allegedly Stole Donor Identities, Used Their Credit Cards To Make Purchases

Oct 10, 2023 View Original Article
  • Bias Rating

    -10% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

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  • Politician Portrayal

    96% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

The A.I. bias rating includes policy and politician portrayal leanings based on the author’s tone found in the article using machine learning. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral.

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"The alleged purpose of the scheme was to deceive the Republican National Committee (RNC) into believing that Santos had more support than he really did for the sake of achieving financial backing from the party."
Positive
0% Conservative
"To conceal the true source of these funds and to circumvent campaign contribution limits, Santos falsely represented that some of the campaign contributions were made by other persons, such as his relatives or associates, rather than the true cardholders."
Positive
0% Conservative
"Because of these unauthorized transactions, funds were transferred to Santos's campaign, to the campaigns of other candidates for elected office, and to his own bank account."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, Nicole M. Argentieri, Acting Assistant Attorney General of the Justice Department's Criminal Division, and James Smith, Assistant Director-in-Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation, New York Field Office (FBI), and Ae T. Doelly, Nassau County District Attorney, aounced the superseding indictment."
Negative
-2% Liberal
"The new charges come after Nancy Marks, the former campaign treasurer for Santos, pled guilty last week to multiple federal charges stemming from her role in falsely reporting that Santos made a $500,000 loan to his campaign to make it appear as though he had more support than he really had."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"The new charges come after Nancy Marks, the former campaign treasurer for Santos, pled guilty last week to multiple federal charges stemming from her role in falsely reporting that Santos made a $500,000 loan to his campaign to make it appear as though he had more support than he really had."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"Santos has less than $8,000 in his bank account."
Negative
-12% Liberal
"During last year's midterm elections, Santos and Marks conspired with one another to devise and execute a fraudulent scheme to obtain money for the campaign by submitting materially false reports to the FEC on behalf of the campaign, in which they inflated the campaign's fundraising numbers for the purpose of misleading the FEC, a national party committee, and the public, the Department of Justice said in a statement."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"As alleged, Santos is charged with stealing people's identities and making charges on his own donors' credit cards without their authorization, lying to the FEC and, by extension, the public about the financial state of his campaign, said United States Attorney Breon Peace."
Negative
-22% Liberal
"Santos did not have authorization to use their names in this way."
Negative
-24% Liberal
"Santos falsely inflated the campaign's reported receipts with non-existent loans and contributions that were either fabricated or stolen."
Negative
-26% Liberal
"Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was hit with additional charges in a 23-count superseding indictment unsealed on Tuesday that included allegations that he stole donor's identities and used their credit cards to make unauthorized purchases."
Negative
-34% Liberal
"In addition, between approximately December 2021 and August 2022, Santos devised and executed a fraudulent scheme to steal the personal identity and financial information of contributors to his campaign."
Negative
-34% Liberal

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