new questions about the source of substantial loans congressman george santos campaign. the embattled republican caught in a web of lies as you know previously claimed he made personal loans to his campaign totaling more than $700,000. but a new filings with the federal election commission boxes indicate that loans of 500,000 dollars and $125,000 come from personal funds well, those were left unmarked. i want you to turn to cnn commentator joan goldberg and ashley, and i have a mcken, let s begin about these questions around the loans, what are you learning about the loans he allegedly gave to his own campaign. the broad outlines of this story that you mentioned, that is absolutely correct. he previously said that he personally loaned his campaign $5 hundred,000 that was in the filing, he also i iterated this, went on the podcast with congressman matt gates not too long ago and suggested that this academy from his personal wealth. in these amended filings, he s now changin
and then you know, thereafter, he followed confidential memorandum again from harvard city capitol but was acting at the endorse and everything as if it was on behalf of goldman sachs, he made all these representations as he was an employee of goldman sachs in fact when christian declined to invest, he essentially called me and was very upset. that was the last conversation that we had over the phone where he said he was very upset, he needed disbursements from goldman sachs. i said listen this is the nature of your business, clients have the right to choose or not to choose, he decided to forego it and that was that. and essentially he never spoke to me after that and when all these lies were exposed and i heard that he never work for goldman sachs or city group or anything i was beyond belief you re thinking somebody is
firm of being a ponzi scheme, santos denied knowledge. i want to begin with you welcome to the program, christian let me begin with only. because according to reporting, santos brought you to a restaurant in queens, a fancy restaurant in queens back in november 2020. he wanted you to invest about $300,000. can you tell us what happened in that instance yes, he was trying to pitch me some ideas that pitch, basically give him $300,000 and he gives me $3,000 every two, three weeks things like that which wasn t making sense to me honestly you described a situation out of scene from good fell las, tell me about that. we went into this restaurant, greeted very, very good, like we were family and i never stepped foot in there in my life, northeasterly had my lawyer or girlfriend, so when we go in
set off alarm bells for you. unfortunately i was the intermediate year between christian and george, i regret that 1,000 percent but thankfully it didn t go further than it did. but essentially i knew george from junior high school r he went to junior high school with me, is 125 in sunny side queens, after junior high school we kind of lost touch and reacquainted ourselves in our about 2019. this case christian s case occurred in 2018 but by the time of settlement, it was 2020 and as it got closer to settlement, i mean, this was you know, my first large case out of law school on my own. and i was excited about it and i was telling everybody you know, i worked in the past with different knewty companies.
as far as harbor city capitol i find it ironic fake news, fake media, disingenuous reporting he never said anything about harbor city capitol upstate dinner. he led us to believe and christian to believe and me to believe that at the time he worked for goldman sachs and he was a personal banker on ben franklin of goldman sachs, and all his representations were on behalf of goldman sachs. in fact, after christian so the red flags came up as far as you don t know what you re investing in. for me the red flags came up immediately when i hear $3,000 a month in interest on an investment, i worked with several anuity company, with large investments, $3,000 is unheard of anywhere. so that was a huge red flag.