Today's headlines: A video from 2019 has resurfaced in which George Santos identifies himself as Anthony Devolder, and the founder of something called ‘United For Trump’; New reporting has revealed that Santos’s most recent job was to raise money for a small, Florida-based investment firm called Harbor City Capital; In 2021, the year after Santos began working there, the SEC said that Harbor City was a Ponzi scheme, and shut down after taking in over $17 million dollars; In May 2021, George Santos incorporated a company called the Devolder Organization LLC - a firm that he claimed was the source of between $3.5 and $11.5 million dollars in income and dividends, after making only $55 thousand dollars in 2020. Finally for today, another round of classified documents was found at President Biden’s Wilmington Delaware home
Resources/Articles mentioned this episode:
The Hill: Santos reportedly used ‘Anthony Zabrovsky’ alias on charity GoFundMe page
Washington Post: Harbor City called George Santos a ‘perfect fit.’ The SEC called the company a fraud.
WSJ: George Santos Raised Money for Company the SEC Says Was a Ponzi Scheme
Mother Jones: Another Santos Money Mystery: He Struck a Curious Business Deal With a Veteran GOP Operative
NY Times: The Mysterious, Unregistered Fund That Raised Big Money for Santos
Daily Beast: George Santos Took Donation From Migrant-Smuggler
NY Times: Santos’s Lies Were Known to Some Well-Connected Republicans
NPR: Here's what we know about the classified documents found at Biden's home and office
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