and local nchgs. he s also the subject of a house ethics investigation as you know. now he s accused of orchestrating a credit and debit card skimming operation in seattle involving atms back in 2017. randi kaye has details. i was an asset in helping take down a grade of criminals. reporter: new york congressman george santos denying allegations from a man from brazil painting him as the mastermind of a credit card scheme. i m innocent, never did anything of criminal activity, and i am no mastermind. reporter: santos claims of innocence are in response to this sworn statement by the man gustavo trela in his declaration first published by politico, trela alleges that santos taught him how to clone atms and credit cards and that the two had agreed to a 50/50 submit of praeds. trelo wrote in the declaration, santos gave me at his warehouse some of the parts to illegally skim credit card information.
2022 campaign. i m very confident i can fight this one. it s very easy. reporter: randi kaye, cnn. a group of new york republican congressman recently introduced a bill that would ban house members like santos from profiting off book, movie, or tv deals if indicted or convicted of certain crimes like financial and campaign finance fraud. just before air time i spoke to congressman brandon williams who has also called for mr. santos to step down. congressman williams, i appreciate you joining us. i m wondering what your reaction was to these allegations that congressman santos was involved in this credit card scheme? well, i tell you, you know, i guess it was an atm scheme. atm. yeah, he s been using the you know, it looks like he s been using nassau county donors as atms and he just upped his game. i think it s a continuation of, frankly, of a confidence scheme very much like bernie madoff,
congressman george santos says he is innocent of the latest reported allegation against him. the finances of the long island congressman are under federal and local investigation. he s also the subject of a house ethics investigation, as you know. now he s accused of orchestrating a credit and debit card skimming operation in seattle involving atms back in 2017. randi kaye has details. i was an asset in helping take down a grade of criminals. reporter: new york congressman george santos denying allegations from a man from brazil painting him as the mastermind of a credit card scheme. i m innocent, never did anything of criminal activity, and i am no mastermind. reporter: santos claims of innocence are in response to this sworn statement by the man gustavo ribeiro trelha. in his declaration first published by politico, trelha alleges that santos taught him how to clone atms and credit
A Los Angeles man was sentenced Monday to 48 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme to fraudulently obtain American Express credit cards and use them.