The two people who guaranteed the $500,000 bond of Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., are his father, Gercino dos Santos Jr., and his aunt, Elma Santos Preven, according to a recently unsealed court document.
PUBLISHED 12:30 PM ET Jun. 22, 2023The individuals who guaranteed the $500,000 bond of Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., last month were revealed by a New York federal court on Thursday to be his father, Gercino dos Santos Jr., and his aunt, Elma Santos Preven, according to a recently unsealed court document.The individuals who guaranteed the $500,000 bond of Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., last month were revealed by a New York federal court on Thursday to be his father, Gercino dos Santos Jr.
"Now you're going to go harass them, a 71-year-old and a 60-year-old. That's what you guys do best right? Is make people's lives miserable," Santos said. "The death threats I get? I can handle that. I ran for public office. They did not. They're private citizens." In campaign finance filings, dos Santos listed his occupation alternatively as a painter, in construction and retired. Preven reported she was a mail handler for the U.S. Postal Service.
Santos also is accused of lying about his finances on congressional disclosure forms and applying for and receiving unemployment benefits while he was employed as regional director of an investment firm that the government shut down in 2021 over allegations that it was a Ponzi scheme. Santos was never implicated in the federal investigation into the alleged Ponzi scheme.
“He told me, I remember specifically — I’m into sports a little bit — that he was a star on the Baruch [College] volleyball team and that they won the league championship," one local Republican official into Santos in March. And Nassau County prosecutors and the New York attorney general’s office had previously said they were looking into possible violations of the law.they have issued over 30 subpoenas and more than 40 "voluntary requests for information" in the Santos probe.
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