George Santos' Legal Problems Got So Much Worse This Week

Republican Congressman George Santos' legal problems look like they have gotten much worse this week, and it is all related to his amended FEC filings. First, Santos "unchecked" boxes about where several donations came from for his campaign, now saying that they weren't "loans" from Santos himself. Second, evidence suggests his office may have forged the signature of the campaign Treasurer after the man whose name they used says he doesn't work for them and never has. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins explains what this could mean for Santos. Link - https://www.newsweek.com/george-santo... Check out our merch by visiting our store: https://www.buyrof.com/ Subscribe to our podcast: http://www.ROFPodcast.com Become a member today!:    / @theringoffire   Support us by becoming a monthly patron on Patreon, and help keep progressive media alive!:   / theringoffire   Spread the word! LIKE and SHARE this video or leave a comment to help direct attention to the stories that matter. And SUBSCRIBE to stay connected with Ring of Fire's video content! Support Ring of Fire by subscribing to our YouTube channel:    / theringoffire   Be sociable! Follow us on: Facebook:   / ringoffireradio   Twitter:   / ringoffiremedia   Instagram:   / ringoffirenetwork   *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. Republican representative George Santo's. Legal problems appeared to get so much worse this week when he filed an amended F e c Federal Elections Commission, uh, campaign finance filing that not only appears to have, uh, featured a forged signature from Santo's, alleged treasurer, but also indicates that the $500,000 that he said was a personal loan from him to his campaign is apparently not a personal loan from him to his campaign. And actually not just the 500,000, there's also another $125,000 that he said he, uh, lent his campaign. But now in the amended filing says, Nope, that was not a loan from me to the campaign. So we now have $625,000 in campaign money that was donated to George Santos that we now do not know the source of. But more importantly, there is a fraudulent signature on a federal filing, which is 100% against the law no matter what. So here's what happened with that. Uh, Santo's campaign was looking for a new treasurer and they thought they had one. The guy's name was, uh, um, Thomas Detweiler and Mr. Detweiler informs Santo's campaign on Monday. I'm not gonna be your treasurer. Thanks for the offer. Appreciate it. Totally not doing it on Tuesday, the day after dot Weiler said, I'm not working for you. His name was still somehow signed on these amended filings with the F E c, even though he had made it clear, I do not work for you as far as we know. Mr. Detweiler has never even seen Santo's, uh, uh, campaign money because he was never actually hired. He declined the job, yet they still put his name on that filing as the campaign treasurer. Now, the reports are saying, you know, Santos could face very serious problems about this. And yes, that could be a very big legal problem, but technically it would only be a legal problem for the individual that signed the name. So, you know, little bit of gray area there because we do not know who actually signed Mr. Dot, Weiler's name on that form. If it was Santos himself or if Santos told someone to do it, then yes, Santo's, a hundred percent. Uh, you're now looking at, uh, uh, fraud. Like that's a pretty easy one, uh, uh, to figure out. But we do have to figure out first if Santos did it or if he instructed somebody to do it or if he's just an idiot and didn't know it happened. Either way, somebody's gonna get in very serious trouble for what happened there. The other thing with the $625,000, that is a giant red flag for the F E C. Every dollar that comes into a campaign has to be accounted for. If it's over $200, it has to be reported as to exactly who gave that money. This is one of those times where there is no gray area about it. So now Santos who had previously said, yes, I loaned my campaign $500,000, and that $500,000 was already suspicious cuz nobody knew where he got the money. But now he's saying, no, I actually didn't loan that money. But he didn't follow up and say it came from X. It's just, yeah, we got the money. I'm not telling you at the moment where it came from, that's gonna get you in trouble every time as well. The point is, these scandals have all arisen within the last 48 hours, 48 hours on top of every other horrid thing we know about George Santos. The last two days have given us basically two new scandals, both of them potentially criminal, and this man is still sitting in congress, still sitting on committees, and Kevin McCarthy refuses to do anything about it.