The North Shore Leader Calls Congressman-elect Santos “A Petty Criminal from Brazil”
By Dan Murphy
Two months before George Santos “shocked the world” and was elected to Congress from NY, a small Long Island newspaper wrote a story calling him a fraud. The story was written by Maureen Day, Editor of The North Shore Leader, a community newspaper on Long Island.
Titled, Santos Filings Now Claim Net Worth of $11 Million, Day writes that based on his required Personal Financial Disclosure Reports to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, from 2020-2022, Santos, “is claiming an inexplicable rise in his alleged net worth to $11 million.. Two years ago, in 2020, Santos’ personal financial disclosures claimed that he had no assets over $5,000 – no bank accounts, no stock accounts, no real property. A net worth barely above “zero”. And his income was only just over $50,000 for the prior year, derived from a venture fund called “Harbor Hill Capital,” that was closed and seized in 2020 by US federal prosecutors as a “Ponzi Scheme.” Santos was the New York Director of that “fund.”
“Now, in a filing dated September 6th, 2022, Santos claims his assets are now as much as $11 million, including personal bank accounts of between $1 million and $5 million; a Condo in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, of between $500,000 and $1 million; and business interests of between $1 million and $5 million… …Interestingly, Santos…
