Most of the investigations reportedly center on the source of Santos' campaign funding. In 2020 financial disclosures, he reported that he had no assets and no earned income. But during his second run for the House in 2022, Federal Election Commission filings showed he lent at least $700,000 to his campaign, and $27,000 to his political action committee.
Santos has also come under fire for aslew of lies he told about his backgroundwhile on the campaign trail, including about his level of education, previous jobs and family ties to the Holocaust.
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Santos made an appearance at the courthouse around the same time as far-right Georgia Rep.Marjorie Taylor Greene, who hosted a sparsely attended “Rally For Trump” ahead of the former president’s court appearance.
Greene’s rally was coordinated in partnership with the New York Young Republican Club and marketed as a protest of Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg’s “heinous attack” on the president.
District Attorney Bragg led an investigation into an alleged hush money payment Trump made to adult film starStormy Danielswhile he was the Republican presidential candidate in 2016.
Last week, a Manhattan grand jury that he impaneled voted toindict the former presidentin connection with that alleged payment and potentially others. The full scale of his charges is expected to be made public Tuesday afternoon, when Trump appears at the courthouse, but the former president will reportedly face34 felony counts.
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Trump is expected in court early Tuesday afternoon local time. Bragg’s office has said Trump will not be placed in handcuffs or have hismug shottaken, as that is only reserved for flight risks or threats to the district attorney or court personnel — which was not determined to be the case.
source: people.com
