According to records acquired by CNN, Republican Rep.-elect George Santos acknowledged to swiping a man’s checkbook that was in his mother’s possession in 2008 in order to buy clothes and shoes. According to 150 pages of case documents, Santos made the admission in a statement to police in 2010.
Because they were unable to locate Santos for almost ten years, police had to halt their inquiry. However, according to CNN on Tuesday, Brazilian law enforcement will re-file fraud accusations against the New York Republican.
On June 17, 2008, Santos used fake checks to make purchases at a store in Niterói, a town outside of Rio de Janeiro, according to court records. According to police records, he used an ID card with his own photo and the name of the checkbook owner to make the purchase.
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In 2008, 2009, and 2010 the police called Santos on multiple occasions to speak with them. In November 2010, Santos’ mother reported to the authorities that her son had used four of the stolen checks from a checkbook that belonged to Delio da Camara da Costa Alemao, who passed away a year earlier. Prior to his passing, Costa Alemao was cared for by Santos’ mother.
For the first time that month, Santos admitted to the police that he had stolen his mother’s checkbook and had used “certain sheets” to make purchases. On the day of the forgery, Santos admitted to forging the man’s signature on two checks to buy clothes and shoes for roughly $1,313.63, and he acknowledged that it was his signature on the forged checks.
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According to police records, he also identified himself as a professor, a White American with dual citizenship, and an American.
Santos claimed that his mother begged him “with despair” to return the checkbook after learning about the stolen checks around a month after he took them, but he had already torn up the remaining checks and dumped them in a manhole.
Authorities stated in an investigation report regarding Santos that Santos “acknowledged having been responsible for forging the signatures on the checks, further stating that he had destroyed the other checks.” Santos signed the document containing the confession on November 18, 2010.
