Mother Jones Article RatingGeorge Santos won't seek re-election. This damning ethics report shows why.
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| "The report makes clear that Santos and Marks collaborated closely." | Positive | 12% Conservative |
| "The ISC recounts numerous instances when campaign funds were transferred to Santos' personal bank accounts or to the account for his private business, the Devolder Orgnaization." | Positive | 10% Conservative |
| "Looking at his 2022 disclosure, the investigators state:Representative Santos reported four assets: (i) an apartment in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil valued between $500,001 and $1,000,000; (ii) a checking account with between $100,001 and $250,000; (iii) a savings account with between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000; and (iv) 100" | Positive | 8% Conservative |
| "The ISC recommended that the Ethic Committee publicly condemn Santos as having engaged in conduct beneath the dignity of the office and having brought severe discredit upon the House." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "A $50,000 transfer of money from political contributors ended up, according to the report, in Santos' personal accounts, [and] the funds were used to, among other things: pay down personal credit card bills and other debt; make a $4,127.80 purchase at Hermes; and for smaller purchases at Only Fans; Sephora; and for meals and for parking." | Positive | 4% Conservative |
| "After all this digging, the investigators remained mystified by some aspects of Santos' finances." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "Still, they point out they couldn't figure out all the convolutions of his money flow:Representative Santos was frequently in debt, had an abysmal credit score, and relied on an ever-growing wallet of high-interest credit cards to fund his luxury spending habits." | Positive | 2% Conservative |
| "The report raises the possibility that Santos could be indicted yet again before a trial scheduled set to begin in September 2024." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The Justice Department, the report notes, has been investigating a suspicious payments totaling $800,000 that Santos received in late 2022, around the same time Santos made significant loans to his most recent campaign." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "The Justice Department, the report notes, has been investigating a suspicious payments totaling $800,000 that Santos received in late 2022, around the same time Santos made significant loans to his most recent campaign." | Negative | -4% Liberal |
| "Santos told campaign staff that Marks was untouchable, and a former staffer compared the campaign's finances to a black box that only Santos and Marks could access." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "Santos told campaign staff that Marks was untouchable, and a former staffer compared the campaign's finances to a black box that only Santos and Marks could access." | Negative | -8% Liberal |
| "The report is overflowing with plots Santos allegedly cooked up for private profit." | Negative | -10% Liberal |
| "Among other potential crimes, the Investigative Subcommittee of the Ethics Committee (known as the ISC) found that Santos had falsified personal financial disclosures and used campaign funds for personal expenses." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Marks has pleaded guilty to plotting with Santos to falsify his campaign's financial reports." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "Though Santos survived a recent move to expel him from the House -- when most Republicans backed him -- this report certainly serves up plenty of ammunition for another effort to oust him." | Negative | -12% Liberal |
| "The ISC calls Santos a total fraud:Representative Santos' congressional campaigns were built around his backstory as a successful man of means: a grandson of Holocaust survivors and graduate from Baruch College with a Master's in Business Administration from New York University, who went on to work at Citi Group and Goldman Sachs, owned multiple properties, and was the beneficiary of a family trust worth millions of dollars left by his mother, who passed years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a result of long-term health effects related to being at one of the towers." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The ISC calls Santos a total fraud:Representative Santos' congressional campaigns were built around his backstory as a successful man of means: a grandson of Holocaust survivors and graduate from Baruch College with a Master's in Business Administration from New York University, who went on to work at Citi Group and Goldman Sachs, owned multiple properties, and was the beneficiary of a family trust worth millions of dollars left by his mother, who passed years after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as a result of long-term health effects related to being at one of the towers." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Here's one:The $20,000 transfer to a Devolder Organization account...was made at a time when that account had a negative balance; in the week after it was transferred to Devolder Organization, it was used to make about $6,000 worth of purchases at Ferragamo stores, withdraw $800 in cash from an ATM at a casino, withdraw $1,000 in cash from an ATM near Representative Santos' apartment, and to pay Representative Santos' rent." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "Here's one:The $20,000 transfer to a Devolder Organization account...was made at a time when that account had a negative balance; in the week after it was transferred to Devolder Organization, it was used to make about $6,000 worth of purchases at Ferragamo stores, withdraw $800 in cash from an ATM at a casino, withdraw $1,000 in cash from an ATM near Representative Santos' apartment, and to pay Representative Santos' rent." | Negative | -14% Liberal |
| "The report details cases where Santos allegedly spent campaign funds on botox, OnlyFans, an Atlantic City casino, a skincare spa, and other things unrelated to ruing for Congress." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The report states that investigators had serious questions regarding whether these payments were intended to benefit Representative Santos' campaign and thus were unlawful excessive contributions." | Negative | -18% Liberal |
| "The committee details many of the schemes in which Santos is already implicated and provides federal prosecutors with more potential crimes to investigate." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "Santos has tried to blame the alleged campaign finance violations he has been charged with on his former treasurer, Nancy Marks." | Negative | -22% Liberal |
| "In December 2021, according to the report, Santos' own campaign team presented him with a 141-page vulnerability report that made clear that the candidate was ruing on a fabricated record." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "The ethics committee report is a total evisceration of Santos." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "Following the release of the report, Santos tacitly acknowledged that his time as a lawmaker could be drawing to an inauspicious close." | Negative | -24% Liberal |
| "It depicts Santos as a total con man who perpetuated an almost unimaginable series of frauds involving campaign money and his personal finances." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "The phrasing suggests Santos recognizes and accepts a painful reality for him: This report could soon lead to the end of his days in Washington." | Negative | -30% Liberal |
| "The House Ethics Committee voted to refer evidence to the Justice Department, which has already charged Santos with 23 counts of criminal activity in two indictments this year." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "This was a key moment wherein Representative Santos could have put an end to all the lies he told, or at a minimum, taken steps to correct the record about his background and personal and campaign finances, the ISC report says." | Negative | -32% Liberal |
| "It notes he was non-stop grifter:Representative Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit." | Negative | -34% Liberal |
| "The bizarre saga of George Santos as a member of the US House of Representatives is heading toward its finale." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "As Mother Jones reported earlier this year, Santos' campaign listed fake contributions during his 2020 and 2022 House campaigns." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "As an initial matter, members of Representative Santos' own campaign staff viewed him as a fabulist, whose penchant for telling lies was so concerning that he was encouraged to seek treatment." | Negative | -36% Liberal |
| "This came after the release of a humiliating House Ethics Committee report -- which itself might lead to an even earlier finish to Santos' congressional career." | Negative | -42% Liberal |
| "Santos' congressional financial disclosures were filled with lies, the ISC found." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "It blows up every lie that Santos has told to cover-up his previous lies." | Negative | -48% Liberal |
| "The ISC report reveals that Santos was such a liar that his campaign aides believed he suffered from a psychological condition that required professional care:Since wiing his election, Representative Santos has admitted that he embellished parts of his background in order to be taken seriously as a candidate; however, the ISC's review revealed significantly more fraudulent activity by Representative Santos." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "The ISC report reveals that Santos was such a liar that his campaign aides believed he suffered from a psychological condition that required professional care:Since wiing his election, Representative Santos has admitted that he embellished parts of his background in order to be taken seriously as a candidate; however, the ISC's review revealed significantly more fraudulent activity by Representative Santos." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
| "The ISC report reveals that Santos was such a liar that his campaign aides believed he suffered from a psychological condition that required professional care:Since wiing his election, Representative Santos has admitted that he embellished parts of his background in order to be taken seriously as a candidate; however, the ISC's review revealed significantly more fraudulent activity by Representative Santos." | Negative | -60% Liberal |
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