Since 2020. cousin is russian billionaire victor vesselberg who has been sanctioned by the u.s. government for his role in the russian energy industry. the paper continues that the evidence suggests santos may have had a business relationship, as santos was entering politics in 2020. it shows according to the s.e.c. filing, intrater put hundreds of thousands of dollars into harbor city, accused by regulators of running a ponzi scheme. neither responded to requests for comments from the washington post. attorneys who represented intrater did not respond. speaker mccarthy was asked again, and he ll be asked tomorrow about a new story about george santos, and he sort of brushes it aside, including the allegations that a member of santos campaign impersonated someone from speaker mccarthy s office to raise money. he said, oh, i only heard about
Freshman congressman george santos is being linked to possible ties to a russian oligarch. links between santos and the cousin of a russian oligarch sanctioned by the u.s. fec filings show an investor and his wife donated the maximum allowed amount, $11,600, to the santos campaign. the investor put hundreds of thousands of dollars into harbor city capital, a florida firm that employed santos before he ran for office, a firm the sec has accused of running a ponzi scheme in 2021. this as the fec is looking into
Intrater. it also shows, according to the s.e.c. filing, that intrater put hundreds of thousands into santos one-time employer. their interactions in 16 and 17 with michael toen were probed during special counsel mueller s investigation of russian interference in 2016 election and possible links between trump and the kremlin. this is washington post reporting this morning. i wonder, luke, if you can speak about any angst about the money telling a disturbing story that gets in the way of all the investigations that jim jordan s new committee wants to run. justice is going to come from law enforcement, not from congress. kevin mccarthy and elise stefanik apparently had some inclination that santos was a fraud well before the public did.
You re watching bbc news. the headlines on bbc news. the government prepares to set out its latest update on foreign travel, with the hope of new destinations without quarantine. the prime minister insists a royal navy warship had the right to travel through waters off crimea, despite angering moscow. as we ve been hearing. tv adverts forjunk food are to be banned before 9pm, in a bid to tackle childhood obesity. its being labelled a silent tragedy in a forgotten location, with communities on the indian ocean island of madagascar, on the verge of starvation. people are having to walk for hours to get food, following the worst drought in four decades. courtney bembridge has the story. unrelenting drought in southern madagascar has put hundreds of thousands of people on the brink of famine. there is almost no water and families are eating mad, mud, insects and cactus leaves because there s nothing else.
1.5 million, that doesn t count those sitting in local jails. how did we get here? be dpr it s important to acknowledge that throughout most of the 20th century, we were pretty stable. that number remain ed under 250,000. then in the 1970s, i think we were captured by what i call the politics of fear and anger. elected officials began using rhetoric of fear and anger and directing it toward people who were drug addicted and drug dependent and instead of saying that people addicted and dependent need our health care system to respond, that s a health issue, we said that s a criminal justice issue. we declared this misguided war on drugs and put hundreds of thousands of people in jails and prisons for drug-related offenses. but here s the rub. you look at big cities across america. crime rates have gone down. people will say lock them up, boom, crime drops. actually, it s not true that