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Sadly I’m inclined to agree with you. Maybe a fine at worst.
Late Tuesday afternoon, Santos’ political operation filed a flurry of amended campaign finance reports, telling the feds, among other things, that a $500,000 loan he gave to his campaign didn’t, in fact, come from his personal funds as he’d previously claimed.
However, while the new amended filing told us where the funds did not come from, it also raised a new question—where did the money come from? >

Isn't this a crime? >

Not sure anymore. All sources seem to indicate that fraud is legal now. Our former president did it 2x and he's a free man. >

it’s fine just keep amending and amending every time you get caught! who knew you get so many tries >

So kinda like Jarrod’s security clearance paperwork? >

Franklin Mint should release a George Santos Coin Collection. Six commemorative pieces crafted from pyrite and depicting Volleyball George, Jewish George, 9/11 Anthony, George the Financier, Animal Charity Grifter George, and Kitara Revache. >

I thought his drag queen name was Liza? Liza Lot >

I knew Lotta Goo >

Ewww, stripper goo! >

I don't give a flying fuck if its personal or not.
I want to know where his broke ass got it in the first place. >

Enough with this motherfucker already. >

No, is never 'enough' till he is out of Congress. The public exposure of his crimes and dishonesty needs to continue and never ignored and swept under the rug like he and the republicans want. >

I’m pretty sure that’s what he means by “enough of him”. He wasn’t saying enough of this coverage. >

"It wasn't Personal. It was Person-Al. My good friend Al donated the 500k. Does that clear things up???" >

It clears it up-ish >

“And it wasn’t a Donation, it was a ‘doh! nation’, meaning I had no idea what country it came from.” >

Remember when we used to be able to look at unchecked corruption in other countries and believe that we were above that?
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Whether it was true or not is a different question, but at least we were able to do it. Now we absolutely know that our country is just as fucked. >

Nah, I remember a guy being elected president because his brother rigged a key state's count and the Supreme Court went "eh." >

You mean the time Roger Stone organized a riot to shut down official proceedings (the FL recount) so the Supreme Court could go on to make that ruling? >

The more I learn about this Roger Stone fella..the more I think he may not be a good person. >


according to a person familiar with the arrangement who wished to remain anonymous

That person is gonna flip >

Nancy Marks, his treasurer, would be my guess.
She no-showed a local board meeting last night. Let's see if she does the same for an event in her honor on Friday. >

If anyone can keep the lid on a hot-boiling mess, it's Nancy Marks.
This one might just be blowing off a little too much national steam. >

It appeared in his 501C(4). His handler seems to be the brother of Inna Yashchyshyn's contact. >

Out of all the stupid stuff Santos has done, this will likely spell end of his career. Campaign finance laws are no joke and FEC will indict him for this. >

Idk I hear he has committed more egregious crimes to answer for, with coming indictments from the fashion police. 
Half zip under a blazer? >

He accidentally admitted being the Zodiac Killer. >

He's Ted Cruz's father? >

Many people are saying it. >

Many perfect conversations saying it. >

I thought it was $700,000 and this is also illegal. >

If you care about the details:   his campaign reported three personal loans from Santos himself that totaled $705,000.
One of those loans was for $500,000 and evidently they're amending the filing to designate it as, uh... not from Santos personally. >

Traficante took bribes - gone.  Santos worked for a Ponzi scheme and can’t explain where he got half a million?  If Merrick Garland isn’t investigating this stooge already for campaign finance violations/crimes then wtf is he doing with his time? >

Duncan Hunter argued that using campaign funds to pay for weekends he spent fucking lobbyists was his actual job.
Still didn't resign from Congress until a month after he was convicted. >

Are you in the matrix? >

He doesn't care, because he knows nothing will be done about it. >


because he knows nothing will be done about it.

He really doesn't seem to have a lot of friends, and if someone is counting on McCarthy to stick by them, there's more backbone in a slug. >

McCarthy would like for someone to come along and rid him of this problem. >

McCarthy is also beyond desperate for an additional vote in the house. >

The house ethics committee will hold him accountable!
Yeah, right  , the Republican members on the committee would have to be taught what ethics are >

We don’t have any campaign finance rules anymore since Citizens United.  It’s all bribes and corruption now, money is just free speech remember.  It’s fine nothing to see here. >

If you want the actual details 
That applies to non-campaigns. You as a person can start a PAC spend all kinds of money on an issue or supporting a candidate. 
What's not allowed to happen is for your PAC to coordinate with any candidates on messaging or ad buys. 
What you're also not allowed to do is donate any more than $2500 per candidate per campaign (note this includes primaries so you could donate $5000 in total to any single candidate in any election year).
I would say that someone else "lending" you 500k to then "lend" that money to your campaign is a pretty obvious way to skirt that limit and does violate what anemic campaign finance laws we have. >

Kevin McCarthy, and the entire Republican leadership, would rather keep this lying, cheating criminal (allegedly) in office than risk one iota of their tenuous power.
Disgusting. (And entirely predictable) >

the BIG PICTURE BOOK of GEORGE SANTOS AMAZING LIFE! >

LOL - I’ll just lie more and THAT will surely fix my problems! >

Anakin meme - I’m not the independent I used to be, I want more. Keep these lies coming >

I honestly don't know what revelation I would question with this clown anymore. 
Ex-coworker said George Santos stole his ham sandwich out of the break room fridge and fucked it. Just fucked the sandwich. /s
I might just believe it at this point. >

At least that ham sandwich might actually get indicted! >

George Santos is like an unfunny version of George Costanza >

Can’t stand-ya! >

Idk. He seems trustworthy. Let’s hear him out >

I’m telling you, that’s Kyrsten Sinema. >

I like to imagine Putin has had an inhouse app on his phone for the last 15 years that streamlines his ability to find individuals around the globe that would make the perfect puppets. He isn't the only one playing this game, but it seems like he is the best at it. Like out of any other foreign leader that would try to influence public opinion in the U.S, he just has the finger right on the pulse of the glaring weaknesses in our society. >

It's not business, it's personal. >

The other shoe begins to drop. Bad to worse. >

"You know, like a crime" >

If he paid himself a salary of $750K from his LLC, then next comes the IRS asking if he paid his appropriate income tax. >

We have actions! But what consequences? >

Kremlin $$$ >

It’s hard to believe they got him to admit to something. Makes me believe thats somehow a lie itself. >

we're such an obviously broken country. 
if I had my way, we'd reset. Break up the US and let states renegotiate terms to form a union. If I could choose a single term to be renegotiated, it would be representation in the senate. >

If history in an indication, the US will at some time break up. Probably initially into 3 countries. >

If this happens, as someone having many ancestors who lived in the US going back to its founding, I would request that all the states west of the Mississippi pay back, with interest, the monies taken from the federal treasury, and collected from the states existing at that time, to purchase that land from other countries.
The US Federal Government purchased Kansas, for example - it is not, and cannot be an "independent state". >

Joseph Tainter's The Collapse of Complex Societies is worth a read. He looked at a number of societies from the standpoint of a historian, looking for the factors they had in common. The accumulation of the society's wealth in fewer and fewer hands resulted, among other things, the inability of a society to pay its bills (as the rich were not taxed). Continual war and declining food affordability per unit of labor were other common factors, as was the hollowing out of what could be considered a middle class in favor of a wealthy + working poor society. >

Cartoonishly evil >

He's only cartoon-ish on his maternal grandparents' side. >

Why is no one talking about his gross lip fillers? >

I’m quitting politics. This guy should be gone already why are we still talking about him >

Nothing will happen.
Edit: I hope this guy is kicked out and goes to jail, but that’s just wishful thinking. In 10 years he’ll be in the senate with a net worth of $100M and will decry all this as ‘fake news’