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Deep Cover: George Santos

Aug 15, 20242 min
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George Santos, the former Republican Congressman from New York, told a lot of stories about his life and his credentials. Many of which, it turns out, were not true. And now–in just a few weeks–Santos is scheduled to face a criminal trial. 

Deep Cover Producer Amy Gaines McQuade, who grew up in Santos’ congressional district, speaks with insiders and experts to try to answer the question: Who is George Santos… really? 

Welcome to Deep Cover: George Santos. Coming August 19th

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Speaker 1

Pushkin. Hey, it's Jake. I'm in your feed today to tell you about a special mini series that the Deep Cover Team is releasing very soon. It's all about George Santos, the Republican congressman from New York who told a lot of stories about his life and his credentials, many of which turns out were not true. And now in just a few weeks, Santos is scheduled to face a criminal trial. This is a story that my producer Amy Gaines McQuaid

has been following for a while. She's talked to a lot of people try to answer the question, who is George Santos?

Speaker 2

Really?

Speaker 3

That's why mister Rickley Neeeds catch me if you can. I mean, the guy who'd win to everyone. George Santos did not give me access. He became a challenge to me. I needed to talk to this man, clearly. I want to ask where he got his money from, because that was like the big dispepancy, right.

Speaker 4

He was very ambiguous and sketchy, quite quite honestly about what the company did and how it made so much money overnight.

Speaker 2

What prosecutors a legend the indictment is that most of that twelve thousand dollars goes directly to Santos's personal bank account.

Speaker 5

I would go down these rabbit holes and start thinking about, like what is the nature of truth? You know, like what can I actually like tell the reader is real about this guy's story.

Speaker 6

My phone is literally blowing up inquiries about saying, is George going to jail? What's going on?

Speaker 2

And I thought, oh.

Speaker 4

My god, this is like.

Speaker 6

Why are you doing?

Speaker 2

Like why deep Cover George Santos coming August nineteenth from Pushkin Industries,

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