dishonesty. and key exception. to ascend to the halls of congress. in essence doj alleges officially now what many have been alleging for months now george santos is a complete fraud. prosecutors claim that santos cheated his own supporters from that indictment, quote, in and about and between september and october 2022, the defendant george anthony santos devised and executed a scheme to defraud supporters of his candidacy for the house and that the false pretenses that the money would be used to for his candidacy. and doj also accuses santos of applying for and receiving unemployment benefits and ten different people who had lost their jobs during the pandemic, all while keeping a job. prosecutors also say santos lied on the financial disclosure forms required of every house candidate. despite these damning allegations that relate directly to how santos ended up in congress in the first place, house gop leadership is as of this house refusing to call for his resignation. ke
white house starts right now. hey, everyone. 4:00 in new york i m in for nicolle wallace. justice and accountability. more than a year after a harrowing attack that shocked this country, the ongoing political violence at the forefront, the jury found david depape guilty on counts of attempted kidnap taing of a federal official and assaulting a family member of a federal official. talking husband of nancy pelosi, paul pelosi, with a hammer in their home back in october of last year. depape faces life in prison. nancy pelosi they are deeply grateful for outpouring of prayers and warm wishes for mr. pelosi across country during this difficult time. the pelosi family is proud he densated extraordinary bravery and demonstrated in the courtroom this week. he felt in immediate danger when depape arrived at the doorstep in the middle of the night. the nbc news, the door opened a very large man came in with a hammer in one hand, zip ties in the other and he said, where s nancy.
described repeatedly as a scheme temperature on or about october 21, 2022, santos sent to contributor 2 one or more text messages in much he reiterated the need for contributions to company one which he falsely stated would be spent on ads. that same day in reliance upon the email and accompanying text messages, contributor two caused a sum of $25,000 to be wired to company one. from there the funds received from contributor one and contributor two were spent by santos for his personal benefit including to make cash withdrawals, personal purchases at luxury clothing, credit card payments, a car payment, payments on personal debts, and one or more bank transfers to santos personal associates. anyone that watches law & order knows that those are crimes that a lot of people don t get away with. what is your assessment of sort of the scale of criminality revealed in the indictment?