George Santos Implicated As Mastermind Behind ATM Fraud Scheme

George Santos’s former roommate says that the Congressman was the mastermind behind a major credit card fraud scheme, but that he’s only just now speaking out because he was afraid that Santos would go after his family if he spoke the truth. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more.

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George Santos' former roommate says that the congressman was the mastermind behind a major credit card fraud scheme. But then he's only just now speaking out because he was afraid that Santos would go after his family if he spoke the truth. And you know what, Santos probably would. I have Farron Cousins here to talk about this. Every week we do another story on this nutcase. It's total nutcrackery every time we're talking about him. So in this situation, we learned that he had this whole network where he's lifting credit cards, he's creating fraudulent credit cards, he's scraping information from legitimate credit cards. He has a whole business set up, right?

Yeah. I mean, that's what this roommate is alleging. And the roommate did go to jail for it. He was arrested, then deported back to Brazil. But according to a letter that this former roommate has now sent to federal authorities in the US, he said, George Santos is the guy who not only got me involved in this, he gave me the equipment, he showed me how to use it. We had a 50 50 agreement that every dollar I stole, he would get 50 cents of it. This is about as strong of a case as you can imagine. And what's funny is that about a month ago, a piece of this story had come out that linked Santos to this case that said, hey, by the way, there's a weird incidence where a man in Seattle was arrested for skimming credit card numbers. And he had a box in his car filled with skimming devices.

Right.

That had George Santos' address on it.

Okay. Give us his, give us his other name. Okay. Santos was operating this, this fraud scheme, God, the guy looks like a fraudster. He looks like a fraudster, but okay. So he's operating this fraud scheme. He's stealing credit cards, he's scraping credit card information. He's actually robbing ATM machines in effect. And so while this is going on, his friend who got caught, Santos says, I'm gonna help you. I'm actually going to get El Chapo's lawyer. Right. That's part of the story. He tells his poor friend who's sitting in prison, in jail, I'm getting El Chapo's personal lawyer to come help you. What happens?

Obviously El Chapo's lawyers did not show up to save the day. So, and once again, it's just more lies from Santos. And even more disgusting, Santos then goes to Seattle to testify at the bond hearing. You know, we're trying to get this guy out on bail, and he says, don't worry, judge, I can vouch for him. I work at Goldman Sachs. And the judge, the judge even goes, he goes, whoa, well hold up. You, you work at Goldman Sachs in New York? He says, yes, I do.

Yeah. Another lie.

So he lies to the judge trying to get his friend outta jail. He's also told the media that, oh, I was an informant in this case. You're not gonna be an informant in the case and then go to argue to get the guy out on bail. So every piece of the story Santos had told us, as best we can tell, is a lie.

I mean, I forget the number of lies. First of all, he says, I'm Jewish. My parents were caught up in the Holocaust. He says, I have this career where I'm a Goldman Sachs advisor. I mean, it's one thing.

I was an award-winning volleyball star.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Until my knees gave out. None of it even happened. His mom died in 9/11. She hadn't been in the country since 1999.

Okay.

It's endless.

So his poor friend who is part of his fraud scheme, his credit card fraud scheme, he goes to jail and then he's deported. Can we deport this guy? I mean, is there a way to deport him? The real question comes down to why in the hell are the Republicans not getting rid of him? Because you got an election coming up, Mr. and Mrs. Republican, you got an election come up.