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  As despicable as this "Santos" guy is, it's only getting more interesting. It's beginning to make me wonder if he's intentionally stringing people with all this cloak and dagger for some kind of long game.
  The results of all these investigations will be intriguing at the least.
context: Some key details:
  
  
  
  In 2020 when he first ran for Congress, Santos listed no assets and a salary of $55,000 in his personal financial disclosure report filed as a House candidate.
  
  
  But his 2022 personal financial disclosure report filed as a candidate subsequently showed his fortunes had drastically changed: He owned assets valued between $2.6 million and $11.25 million, including an apartment in Rio de Janeiro, a checking account and a savings account.
  
  
  According to the 2022 disclosure, he reported earning millions between January 2021 through December 2022 from his New York-based company, Devolder Organization. He also reported having a car loan worth between $15,001-$50,000.
  
  
  
  And from various other reports, preface that timeline with him being evicted from apartments in 2014 and 2017 for not paying rent, a lawsuit in 2015 over not paying back a $5,000 loan, and Discover winning a $2,000 judgement against him in 2018 over nonpayment of his credit card.    
  As they used to say in the Watergate days, follow the money.   Used to say, and still do. >
  
  So, what does this mean? Between 2015 and 2022 he either mysteriously came into assets totalling somewhere between 2.6 and 11.2 million or he always had those assets and lied about it? >
  
  Or door number 3, he has no real assets to speak of, the Devolder Organization is just a shell corp (he's given about three different versions of what it does to make money, and none of them really make sense), and the money that was spent on his campaign came from Russia or other sources that he felt that it was worth lying about on a federal election filing to keep secret. >
  
  That's kind of what I was thinking too, thanks for that link, some interesting things I hadn't heard before:
  
  
  ...recent report in the Daily Beast, Santos took some $56,000 from a Russian money man named Andrew Intrater - a cousin of Putin crony Viktor Vekselberg, who is under international sanctions.  
  
  
  He claims to now live in a rented apartment in a row house in Queens, however the Times reports that no one knows him at that address. >
  
  Just the combination of all the lies all point in the same direction.
  I wonder if he is even a US citizen, and if he is, when was he naturalized, since according to some accounts of colleagues, he claimed he was Brazilian. Naturalized citizens have to wait 7 years before running for office. >
  
  Santos rolling in on the first day of his new job.