in order to hide it. that s number two. number three, theft of public funds. this is totally different and sort of shocking. and this relates actually to money that the federal government made available during covid to help people who are unemployed during covid and santos falsely said i m not working, i m trying to get a job, it s not working out, when he was, in fact, working. so that is a straight up theft of public funds. that s the third part. and finally, again, unrelated or only tangentially related is false statements because when you get elected to the house you have to file official paperwork with the house, one of the things you have to do is give broad strokes about your income. interestingly enough going to what a liar this person allegedly is, he both understated his income at some points and overstated it at other points by a lot. so those are the four buckets here. wow. so he s going to now be before a judge at about 1:00 today. george santos, republican congressman,
from anybody by lying to them, the wire part means you ve done it over the internet or phone, something that s always going to apply. this is going to apply to some sort of fraud whereby george santos presumably took money from somebody else by lying to them. then we have money laundering. that means taking the proceeds the money that you stole and hiding it somehow, trying to conceal it from investigators. then we have theft of public funds. now, that s interesting. that means not only did he steal money from some private individual, but it would have to be some sort of public money, some sort of federal or state governmental money. so i m interested to see what that is about. and then finally making materially false statements to the house of representatives. this is what we were talking about, i think, before, sara. that you have to make certain campaign-related disclosures to the house, of course, lying to the house, whether during verbal testimony or in documents that you file, th
you know, the question wasn t whether or not he would be indicted, the question would be when. he s being accused of using public funds to buy designer clothes. it is a 19-page indictment. i m not a speed reader, just going through it, he used allegedly public funds to buy designer clothes. he was working and making over $100,000, but he falsely claimed he was unemployed and received $24,000 in unemployment benefits. he lied allegedly on federal disclosure funds. so these are very serious charges. money laundering, wire fraud, making false statements in congress. theft of public funds. very, very serious. yes, he s innocent until proven guilty. these are very serious allegations. and, so, catherine, if proven guilty on any of them, what kind of what could he be facing? he could be facing we call it double digit, double digit times, if he s convicted of any