comment: >
  
  Just like his friend, the former president of Brazil, Bolsonaro, who lives in the USA after destroying the country.
context: He'd also spend exactly $199.99 at a time there, just below the level requiring preservation of receipts.  
  
  Santos, it should be said, is really good at spending just $199.99 almost everywhere he goes—his financial disclosure forms show him spending that exact amount at a Hyatt Orlando (in July 2021), on Delta Airlines and at BJ’s Wholesale (August 2021), at Target and on “Uber” (October 2021), and at many other establishments or services including W Hotel South Beach, JFK Parking, Best Buy, Walgreens, and the TSA line-skipping company Clear.
  
  I ate at the Italian restaurant where Santos is often, for some reason, spending exactly $199.99.
  The improbability of George Santos’ $199 expenses >
  
  The $199 expenses only total about $7,400 (out of $2.6 million) - but I bet if they looked closer they'd find a ton of sub$200 expenses (more than normal).  I'm sure they padded the hell out of it and stole a hell of a lot more than $7,400 - they were just stupid enough to list 37 of them right at the limit. >
  
  Yeah I read they compared it to like 5,000 other campaign finance reports, and barely any other campaigns had any transactions below the threshold. The ones who did only had one or two, and always differing amounts. Not $199.99 37 times. You have to be a special kind of dumb to do that and think it won't get noticed eventually. >
  
  I don't know...would anyone have gone through Santos's filings if he lost?
  I'm starting to think that his campaign was really just a big money laundering operation and he won by mistake.
  Like The Producers, he could have gotten away with the con if he hadn't succeeded. >
  
  I 100% believe that. I don't think he thought he would ever win, and decided to take a play out of old Donny's playbook and commit to the grift as long as possible. 
  But the million question is where did the money come from. Dude didn't have a penny to his name before like 2 years ago, and there's no way in hell I believe he raised it. Someone (or someplace) backed him. >
  
  Here’s what I consider the Occam’s razor of the situation:
  Santos did the small-time grift of losing candidate in a race heavily favoured for the other party. He’d done this before- and lost. Lots of people do this. You get to have the clout of an official candidate and maybe can make a little money off the whole thing.
  However, someone saw the potential for him to win this time. They invested heavily in him through backdoor means, and essentially bought him. It was most likely the Russians. 
  Meanwhile, George either didn’t realise he actually might win thus causing much more attention on his campaign and finances or, more likely, he decided he liked the idea of winning too and thought he was smart enough to know how to properly hide all the bad stuff. 
  Whoever funded/bought him did NOT do a good job of exposing to him how to launder the money and stuff like that properly. So he’s over there thinking he’s being super clever at all this while making terribly elementary mistakes. 
  He won, causing attention for defying odds. But then, what his backers couldn’t have expected is that he would get not only that attention but much more extreme attention for being exposed as a pathological liar. 
  If things in the house hadn’t been so close, republicans may have forced him to resign because he’s even too much even for them. But McCarthy needed him so George got extremely lucky (or unlucky as this all happening is what led to the rest coming to light). This made the already extreme attention on him ridiculously, incredibly extreme, with everyone wanting to find new lies and check into every aspect of him, especially and including things like his campaign finances. 
  Thus, he’s getting caught now because of these very unlikely sequences of events. If all this hadn’t happened, he still may have got away with it as people would’ve never investigated him in the first place if he’d lost, and would’ve bored of investigating him if he’d resigned fairly quickly. >
  
  While I agree that this is a plausible explanation, I think you need to reread about Occam's Razor.  It's the idea of preferring the explanation with the fewest assumptions. >
  
  So what's the explanation requiring the fewest amount of assumptions? He went from broke to millionaire in 2 years by sucking dick in an Olive Garden bathroom? >
  
  Grifting and bribing are certainly reasonable.
  'Conman runs fake campaign and launders money through it' involves very few assumptions.  Saying that the money is of Russian origin introduces another element that requires proof.  When we go in that direction we move away from wanting to be certain and move towards wanting a story.  And after all, can we really ask for more than a story when our political leaders are just stage actors?
  Edit:  this is not to say that there isn't proof that Russia gave money to Santos.  Just that it wasn't included in this context.  That comment was meant to point out any of the specifics that were added to the story, not to say that it is unlikely. >
  
  
  Saying that the money is of Russian origin introduces another element that requires proof.
  
  I don't think the Russian connection is as big of a assumption as you do. >
  
  What’s the point of fraud if you can’t give your friends some kickbacks along the way? >
  
  Whoa there.  How do we know he didn’t distribute 1,131 orders of rigatoni to a soup kitchen?  Would be just like his father, Jose Andres. >
  
  Because he was on his second tour of Vietnam saving orphans from communists at the time >
  
  Ah, the years he spent as Henry Kissinger’s muse >
  
  He must be the one providing the monthly blood transfusions that allows Kissinger to keep that healthy glow! >
  
  I thought that was the adrenochrome? >
  
  Kitara actually invented adrenochrome >
  
  Can someone please explain to me how this lying loser is even still a representative? Whoever he knows that's keeping him in the position is clearly corrupt right? How are they not removed and given plenty of money for it?
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  Do republicans really care this little about how their party appears? How hard is it to not hire a proud piece of shit? >
  
  You pretty much answered your first question with your second question.
  No.  No, they do not.  Idiots will vote for them whatever they do. >
  
  This right here. I specifically remember watching a bit on TV a while ago where they interviewed people who live in Marjorie Taylor Greene's district what they thought of her and all the stupid shit she says. Most said they didn't approve of the things she said but they will still vote for her. This country is full of complete and utter morons. >
  
  It’s spite
  Full on “cutting your nose off to spite your face” level hatred for the kind of people who vote Democrat, mixed in with “No Taxes, No Regulation” hatred of government
  They know that they’re not going to be able to retire fully, that they’ll go into debt from medical bills, that the police will get more violent, that roads and bridges will crumble and everything will get more expensive and less safe as the world wide liberal order falls apart
  Doesn’t matter, they’re hurting people they don’t like and the government isn’t telling them what to do, at least for the stuff they like to do >
  
  there is definitely a lot of hate, and I believe opinion shows like Fox News are responsible. They aren't just being biased, they specifically stoke people's fears and paint opposition party as "enemies". They always try to get a rise out of people over stupid shit. And in the end you end up with crazies like the guy who bashed Paul Pelosi with a hammer >
  
  Its not just the crazies that are the issue. All of their other voters support those crazies in action even if they claim they dont. They are all capable of it. Its just that most are smart enough to try and get their evil legislated into law instead of being so overt. >
  
  You think the mafia knew he was this incompetent when they decided to use him? >
  
  They are also incompetent, just quieter. >
  
  Jesus, just arrest him already.   These fks get away with this shit and no consequences are ever paid. >
  
  No no, the law only punishes poor people, like say a dude who is stopped for a traffic violation while black, or a dude who has no legs dangerously "running" away from cops, or a teenager who somehow managed to shoot herself in the mouth while her hands were handcuffed behind her back in the back of a police car, or a dude selling singles, or someone holding a pink umbrella. >
  
  He is a poor person though. Has to launder money through his campaign to afford food and rent it seems. >
  
  You’re not poor when you have powerful friends who are able to benefit off of you >
  
  Obviously some benefactor loaded his campaign with a lot of cash with specific goals in mind.  The issue is though that he was potentially so broke that he couldn't keep his hands off the cookie jar long enough to create benefit for his sponsors. >
  
  Need to remove campaign financing in its fucking entirety, so sick of this. >
  
  Sides?! 26,000 in sides?! >
  
  Did the sides cure cancer? >
  
  The sides did cure cancer. That’s the problem. That’s why they were so expensive >
  
  I don't want to make assumptions, but that sure does have Mafia vapors wafting off it >
  
  The family that owns this place has a member from Italy who was deported from the US and attempted to smuggle Chinese nationals into the US on his boat from the Bahamas.  That deported Italian donated money directly to the Santos campaign (which is a campaign violation because you can't accept foreign money).
  So there's all levels of weirdness and corruption going on here.
  Personally I think that there's another MAIN source who funded Santos with hundreds of thousands and then Santos during his campaign attempted to 'embezzle' those campaign funds himself with fake receipts and also attempted to use this place to wring up tens of thousands in campaign finance expenses.
  So he was basically 'ripping off' the person/entity that funded his campaign and these people were helping him imo. >
  
  I got one better.
  In July 2010, Italian authorities arrested ~300 organized crime members.
  The capo of that crime family:
  
  Has the same last name as the owner.
  Comes from the same small town in Italy.
  Is similar enough in age to be the restaurant owner’s father.
  
  That organized crime ring used bistros and cafes as fronts for money laundering and narcotics distribution.
  This is entirely circumstantial.
  (I can cite public sources but not gonna doxx this dude cause Reddit has such a good track record with crime research.)
  Edit: This crime family definitely has a presence in NYC, based upon Italian wiretaps and at least 1 arrest here in the US. >
  
  Rocco Oppedisano is a convicted human trafficker so hes 100% in the mafia too. And there was a powerful mafia family ran by another Oppedisano? No way thats a coincidence >
  
  The restaurant owner also owns a seaplane. Which is kind of weird for someone living in NYC to own.
  Edit: This specific crime family is heavily involved in drug trafficking and money laundering. >
  
  Yeah, the dude even left the hospital early in order to vote. I guess politics is important to him.
  Especially since his family is part of the Santos campaign.
  Edit: The “Small Business for Santos Coalition” reads like a cliché out of a movie. Construction, Waste Management, Restaurants…. >
  
  My first thought was he balled out on some First Growth Premiere Cru or something, but the most expensive bottle they have listed is Dom for $285. How TF did they spend $26,000 there? >
  
  This place is pseudo famous. Not for the food, which is like decidedly B+ at best. The owner is a Republican mini me attention whore who's buddies with Giuliani, crashed his plane in the east river (killing one of his best friends) and had a cousin get arrested for smuggling Chinese Nationals and metric fuckload of drugs into the states on his yacht. >
  
  Yeah if you read the article he hosted an event costing 18k, and his sister held another one costing 4k (22k~ total)
  So really he spent 3000$ there alone, the rest was on campaign events. I'm loving watching him crash and burn as much as anyone but that's somewhat possible.
  Edit: I replied to the wrong person... Whoops >
  
  I mean he’s a three-time rigatoni eating champion so this shouldn’t be a surprise. >
  
  Not surprising, you work up an appetite painting the Mona Lisa, which George Santos did. >
  
  
  painting the Mona Lisa
  
  With his left hand... his right hand was doing rubik's cubes because he was bored. >
  
  I’ve eaten at Not an Obvious Front and their bolognese is lovely. Just avoid it Mondays sometimes the grinder still has some snitch in it leftover from the weekend. >
  
  Legitimate Businessman’s Club >
  
  Georgie the Squealer >
  
  Johnny Tightlips >
  
  we want our moneys in 24 hours, and just to show you we are serious, we want the moneys in twelve hours.  See you at… 5:00am, Mrs.  Simpson. >
  
  When the server started grating the Parmesan cheese they never said when. Case closed, nothing to see here. >
  
  "Leave the tumor in the dog. Take the cannoli." >
  
  “I’ll make him an offer for $199.99 he can’t refuse” >
  
  He laundered the Ponzi scheme money through his campaign. >
  
  Then, just to be safe, he laundered the cash through a casino in Vegas.  In a single transaction. >
  
  I’m waiting for someone to catch him doing something honest. >
  
  This sounds absurd, but hear me out: what if George Santos is actually just another character of Roger from American Dad. He's gay, loves being in costumes and lies constantly. His backstory makes no sense whatsoever, his name sounds like a fake politician name (George Washington + Matt Santos from The West Wing = George Santos).
  This would also explain the levels of consumption of rigatoni which would be required for this to make sense. >
  
  This is the most plausible explanation I’ve seen yet. >
  
  Reminds me of S5E1 in the Sopranos when Chris is bitching to Tony about having to constantly pick up $1000 restaurant tabs.  
  
  You pay till I tell you you don't have to pay no more.And don't give me that face. You know how many tabs, how many dinners I picked up over the years? I got Richie Aprile, fat fucking Jerry Anastasia. Those guys killed me at Benihana's. And forget it, if they want a steak. I put a new wing on Peter Luger's. Brandy, cigars, champagne. Could've bought a fucking plane. >
  
  But Ton' that was before inflation >
  
  T we got this Congressman from Long Island. Says he’s a Jew but he’s actually a Portuguese or something like that. No one knows anything about him, real sketchy dude. But I think we can get the big hookup if homeboy delivers the stock news he says he can. Says a bunch of senatahs got away with it in broad daylight last yeaaahh.  
  Tony: Christofah, bribing a congressman? Are you fuckin crazy? Do I look like I need that kinda agita right now? My loy-uh says the guy is being investigated by the Feds both here and down in Brazil, you fuckin stunad. Use your fuckin head. >
  
  So more laws have been broken without consequences. Sounds about right! So many GOP criminals in elected seats…drain the GOP swamp! >
  
  So he is a money laundering system >
  
  A bottle of white...
  A bottle of red...
  Perhaps a bottle of campaign fraud instead? >
  
  Santos is probably a gift to the republicans.  everyone focuses on his bullshit while the others quietly fuck stuff up unnoticed by the press >
  
  Tomorrow’s headline:
  Italian Restaurant In Queens Says Never Served George Santos >
  
  FTFY: George Santos' campaign ~~spent~~ laundered more than $26,000 at an Italian restaurant in Queens. >
  
  I expect he will release a statement along the lines of, "George Santos is a competitive eater and has won national awards in it including the Presidential Medal of Freedom which was personally handed to him by Ronald Reagan." >
  
  We need to be digging into ALL POLITICIANS finances and holding. Them. Accountable. I'm sick of the same story over and over, make them face consequences >
  
  So the hypothesis is that his entire campaign was ONLY meant to be a money laundering operation, and he accidentally flipped the seat and won, bringing attention to it?  
  This fits Occam's razor. >
  
  Yep. everything point to Santos being a front for both Italian and Russian mafia >
  
  Smells like money laundering. >
  
  Smells like a subplot in a Godfather sequel. A delicious subplot with enough Rigatoni Bolognese to fill a small swimming pool with >
  
  Money laundering?  If it looks like a duck… >
  
  If your goal was to make folks crave Italian food, you've succeeded admirably. >
  
  I don't get it. All of the other stories about this guy show really obviously that he's a fraud.
  This one's just about how he enjoys a completely normal quantity of Italian food??? >
  
  So many politicians are grifting within the law with very little effort and this guy is too lazy and/or stupid to do even that. >
  
  not to be that guy but can you IMAGINE if this was a democrat ? they’d be hanging be their feet in front of the capitol building already and this dude is only being removed from his committee positions because they want omar gone >
  
  A democrat doing this would have been murdered already. I’d put money on it. 
  If they could only hate the monsters they associate themselves with half as much as they hate women that merely oppose them. >
  
  Mama mia >
  
  Here we go again! >
  
  95% of the tab will be for expensive booze. >
  
  Santos got a massive donation from the owner of the restaurant’s brother and his daughter sat on one of Santos’ commission boards. It’s good ol’ fashioned money laundering.
  I give give you a $100k “donation”, you spend $26k at my brother’s place, $30k over here, $14k over there, $18k here and pocket the rest, got it? (I made up the numbers, but the principle doesn’t change). 
  It’s the only way to explain a massive amount of “personal wealth” that Santos used that he can’t seem to account for how it was gained. >
  
  it’s one bolognese, michael, what could it cost? $26,000? >
  
  So, laundering? >
  
  Bottle of red 
  Bottle of white
  Whatever funds you want
  To hide Tonight
  Bottle of white
  Bottle of red
  Squeal on the mob and 
  You'll end up dead 
  I'll meet you anytime you want (with a large duffel bag of unmarked non-sequential bills) at our Italian restaurant. >
  
  I mean, nobody wants to admit they ate 1131 orders of rigatoni >
  
  
  George Santos' campaign spent more than $26,000 at an Italian restaurant in Queens. 
  
  No, he reported spending 26 large.  Did he actually spend that money or was he doing some laundry?  There are a number of ways that number would get recorded, none of them entailing spending it a restaurant. >
  
  People voted for this fucking guy.  Unbelievable >
  
  Why is he paying for his food there? He is the head cook at that restaurant and should be eating for free. >
  
  This is actually probably one of the more normal political things Santos has done tbh >
  
  I'm starting to thing George 
  is actually a "Patsy" >
  
  "Youse want the support of the Teamsters, don't ya?" >
  
  Yes but how many football fields worth of Bolognese is that? Or length in number of buses? >
  
  Isn't $26k the amount that the character Leonardo Dicaprio played in The Wolf of Wall Street tried to expense for a meal?  If Jordan Belfort can do it, anyone can >
  
  I clearly need to run for congress. Seems like an easy way to make a lot of money. >
  
  Wine. >
  
  oh hey. he spent more money at a restaurant than i would get from biden's student loan forgiveness plan. also spent the same amount of money that would take me over 6 months to make at my 40+ hours a week job. cool. >
  
  This is the same restaurant Republican NYC Councilmember Vickie Paladino held her anti-vax party and conga-line during the COVID pandemic that resulted in a bunch of people contracting COVID. This restaurant is a go-to spot for Republican fuckery. As some of the other comments have pointed out, the restaurant's owner has suspicious ties to criminal activity and the Santos circle. >
  
  So you're saying his political spending is full of bolognese. >
  
  Looks like a normal Republican to me. >
  
  He's the perfect Republican.  A shameless liar & grifter. >
  
  Sounds like some kind of kickbacks. Probably knows the owner or something and wanted to throw him a bone. >
  
  Bottle of red, bottle of white in our Italian restaurant. >
  
  I'm starting to think there is some funny business going on with politics as a whole >
  
  Money laundering. >
  
  With a side of money laundering… >
  
  That’s a big sausage he ate >
  
  Couldn’t drag him away from the table. >
  
  That explains why he is just full of Bologna. >
  
  This is the worst gangster movie I’ve ever seen >
  
  I hope that all this attention doesn't make him enough of a martyr to the right wing that he winds up successfully running for office again. Personally I think he's facing federal prison time, but then look how little has happened to anyone named Trump. >
  
  They could have used the right pasta in the picture >
  
  Do they have a laundromat in the back?!? >
  
  That is likely the source of George's mystery loans. That's where the boss likes keep his office and does his business. >
  
  The pork store >
  
  Money laundering that’s what it’s called >
  
  Sure, his lies are pretty brazen...but let's not forget that nearly every Republican Senator that's opened their mouths has blatantly lied about their positions on the floor and during campaigns.
  How many times do we need to bring up "the mcconnell rule" or play Lindsey Graham saying one thing and then saying the opposite?
  They're all completely shameless hypocrites, the only difference is that their constituents love it. >
  
  We should measure Santos's expense in terms of homeless vets dying dog he scammed. So that is 8 and 2/3 dying dogs. >
  
  Money Laundering. >
  
  Thanks for the break down, I think we should measure all political money scandals in Rigatoni Bolegnese now. >
  
  What’s funny is that, this guy fooled republicans and voters, gets elected democratically and both major parties want him gone seeing as he isn’t the best representation of an elected official. They are trying to remove the beast they made. Lmmmmao >
  
  My Nonna would say that that’s how much she makes me eat in a night. >
  
  Boy, we’ll do anything to avoid the metric system, huh? >
  
  Georgie boy was buying union votes. >
  
  Did he go by himself?  That would explain a lot. >
  
  "Which dark group is Santos taking money from?"
  "All of them."
  "All of them?!"
  "Yes, all of them. Every dark money group known to US Intelligence."
  "Even the fictional COBRA from GI Joe?!"
  "A little bit, yes." >
  
  Might as well just spend it at Fraud Guarantee, which is a real company started by Guiliani associate Lev Parnas, that paid Rudy $500,000 to "consult". >
  
  “Business expenses? Jordi, look what you got here, look at this. 26 thousand dollars for one f***en dinner!” >
  
  Are we all just gonna act like he wasn't propped up by either foreign countries trying to keep psychopaths in congress?
  Like, can we just skip to the part when we agree he's a fraudulent piece of shit? >
  
  And remember "it's not time to talk about this witch hunt, he was elected by the people and he's getting sworn in and appointed to committees" until the denial isn't sustainable, he's kicked out, "resigns" or gets arrested and then "we need to move on and heal for the people, I never liked the guy anyway". >
  
  Money laundering. >
  
  This guy is a con-artist, and McCarthy wont admit to it. >
  
  A business has to keep every receipt to qualify as a write off. How is the threshold $199? These funds aren’t going to the companies, they are somehow going into his own pocket. >
  
  I'm from New Jersey and I know a guy who owns an Italian restaurant in queens...just saying >
  
  He's not in jail yet? All they need to prosecute him is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt. He's already surpassed that to beyond any doubt. >
  
  This is the new reality with today's republican party. They are more interested in winning and lining their own pockets than actually running a government in the best interest of the people they represent. The democras aren't much better but at least they try to do their job instead of just "owning libs". >
  
  I'm struggling to comprehend the money spent. Could you give it to me in lasagnas instead? >
  
  Silly. He should have ordered the “Riganelection Bolognese” >
  
  I really appreciate the use of "rigatoni bolognese" as a unit of measure and would love to see it in more news stories. lol >
  
  Could this be… money laundering? >
  
  He’s been taught by every single member of Congress and the executive branch that politicians can do whatever the hell they want in this country with zero repercussions. >
  
  Is there someone out there looking into some of these other shitbag congresspeople's campaign funds as well? >
  
  Don’t understand why he’s still in office - is a commentary on these times >
  
  I worked in NY in the 90s on Wall Street. Scores, the strip club, used to bill as a Greek restaurant in Queens. >
  
  Who owns the restaurant? >
  
  Sides? 26000 dollars worth of sides?
  What are these sides? They cure cancer? >
  
  Hahah. CLEAR is 189 and gives you an electronic receipt. So clear fraud for $10 there. No multiply with every meal. Basically, he is laying himself and claims it’s a business expense at a friend’s restaurant. Best way to go about this is for the tax guys to look at the income of that restaurant and threaten that guys with tax fraud. >
  
  [cough]moneylaundering[cough] >
  
  Audit every single one of them in office and fucking do something about it >
  
  The guy who own the restaurant is also a convicted human trafficker who had his family donate to his campaign. Nothing shady there >
  
  how is he getting so much money, wasn't he bankrupt >
  
  Wolf of Wall Street scene “did these sides cure cancer?!” >
  
  But how many half-giraffes would it be? >
  
  Every time I see this guy I get Jon Lovitz’s Tommy Flanagan in my mind. “Yeah!  That’s the ticket.” >
  
  Hey, lets give this guy a break.  In his off time, he is the Batman, a financier, and a porn star.  He needs to eat well. >
  
  Why is running the government the only job you don’t get fired from for stealing? >
  
  Sounds like a typical “Fiscal conservative” >
  
  What a fucking douchebag and what a fucking freak show the GOP has become to continue supporting him!! >
  
  I'll take money laundering for $26,000, Alex. >
  
  Alright, well. Dipshit money laundering 101. This guy is like all time cartoon of dipshittery. >
  
  If I was Santos, I'd say that I was feeding homeless veterans' service animals with that. >
  
  26 boxes of ziti. >
  
  Now that is supporting local business /s >
  
  $22.98 is outrageous for a plate of pasta and sauce. They obviously drank a lot of cheap red wine with their meals in order for the price to be so high. >
  
  Sounds like money laundering to me >
  
  Fred Armisen was born to play this guy. >
  
  Rigatoni bolognese is also like the cheapest thing on a menu >
  
  This guy is a talented con artist who’s trying to dupe us all and have a big time in the process! >
  
  He can’t take all the credit…the GOP are the perfect mark. >
  
  why is it so difficult to find where he got $750000 from? don't banks monitor all transactions of 10,000 or more? Unless he came to the bank with a briefcase full of $100 bills, there should be a record of who sent that money >
  
  It never ends with this guy. I’m eating for the news that he’s really just 3 kids in a trench coat >
  
  I despise that lying piece of shit. >
  
  Damnit now I want Italian. >
  
  The appetizers did, in fact, cure cancer. >
  
  It’s undoubtedly ~$200 in food and then $25,800 of absurdly overpriced wine. There is an Italian restaurant in town where the meals are generally in the $30-$50 range, but their wine list is a small book with wines reaching into the thousands per bottle easily.
  Went there with a significant other a while back, and was flipping through the wine list for a while - S/O says “just pick whatever, doesn’t matter to me” and I had to quietly tell her I was looking for a bottle under $75… there was only one or two on the entire list. >
  
  I feel like rigatoni is a bad noodle shape for bolognese. >
  
  It’s old man Withers from the haunted amusement park. >
  
  This guy removes himself from committees while the GOP purges Democrats from their committees. Congress is fucking broken >
  
  Let me guess in $199 increments? >
  
  More likely that like 80% of that bill is from like 1 or 2 expensive bottles of alcohol. >
  
  cough Ponzi scheme cough >
  
  Who owns the restaurant? >
  
  He’s a blob for a reason. He must have eaten it all by himself >
  
  They had to carbo load for the marathon of lies. >
  
  We know he's laundering money and our criminal justice system is designed to help high level criminals skirt the system >
  
  Let’s be fucking real here I just don’t think this is something George Santos should be called out for.
  If you were 4 raccoons stacked up and standing on each others shoulders wearing people clothes pretending to be a sitting representative, you would be hungry too. >
  
  Why is this shocking to anyone?  Politicians only give a shit about money and power.  None of them care about people. >
  
  Who else feels as the net gets tighter and tighter around him that he will just…disappear?  People will be then left wondering if he ran away to another country or if one of his “associates” helped him to “disappear” >
  
  But let’s be honest, they all probably do that >
  
  A (maybe) born in Brazil conservative politician doing money laundering or embezzlement on a diner and has fled persecution to the US for yet another crime? If I had a nickel for every time that happened I would have two nickels. It isn't a lot, but it's weird that has happened twice.
  If he flees the US back to Brazil and runs for politics here, he would fit right in. >
  
  I’m so out of the loop but this dude sounds like a piece of shit