The Devolder Organization LLC, the supposed source of disgraced Rep. George Santos’s wealth, has changed its headquarters from a penthouse on Merritt Island to a mail-services store in Melbourne. The move came just as FLORIDA TODAY was preparing a story about Santos’s Brevard County connections.
Santos, a Republican, was elected in November to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District, which includes parts of the New York City borough of Queens and Long Island.
A New York Times story published Dec. 19 called into question large parts of Santos’ resume noting that the Wall Street companies he said he worked for had no record of him. Similar replies came from schools he supposedly attended. Further investigations found a long list of discrepancies in Santos biography as well as a history of financial and legal woes.
More:Disgraced politician George Santos has strong ties to Brevard County
For at least part of the time he was running for Congress, Santos was working for Harbor City Capital, a Melbourne-based “investment firm” that was shut down by the Securities and Exchange Commission as being nothing more than a Ponzi scheme.
The SEC complaint did not name Santos and nobody has been criminally charged in the case. Santos has denied any knowledge of wrongdoing at the company.
Santos did not list any income from Harbor Capital on financial disclosure forms he filed as part of two congressional runs, a potential criminal violation.
But those same disclosures show a dramatic…
