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☆ Judge blames George Santos for personally feeding 'media frenzy' into his mysterious bail sponsors before making their names public
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

A federal judge disclosed the identities of George Santos's bail sponsors: His dad and aunt. Santos was personally responsible for giving reasons to unseal their names, a judge wrote. He personally fueled the "media frenzy" cited to keep their identities private, according to the judge. US District Judge Joanna Seybert commented on Santos's conduct in an order issued on Tuesday and unsealed on Thursday, along with the bail sponsors. Santos personally fed that frenzy by speaking to members of the media following his May arraignment in federal court on Long Island, Seybert wrote in her ruling.

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☆ We just learned the identities of the 2 bail guarantors keeping George Santos out of jail
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +9 min

A judge has unsealed the identities of George Santos's mysterious bail sponsors. A third bail guarantor never came forward, a judge wrote. Additional identifying information in the bond documents remains sealed. US Magistrate Judge Anne Shields allowed them to be bail sureties anyway because they "agreed to be personally responsible" for Santos. If anything, Seybert wrote, Santos has drawn even more attention to their identities — giving more reason to make them public.

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☆ Rep. George Santos' mystery bail backers to be revealed at noon
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

U.S. Rep. George Santos leaves the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York in Central Islip, New York, May 10, 2023. The secret identities of Republican Rep. George Santos' bail backers in his federal criminal case are set to be revealed Thursday at noon ET. "That risk is further heightened by the fact that the very crimes Rep. Santos has been charged with involve abusing the political process for personal gain," the Times noted. A consortium of news outlets, including NBC News, followed suit, arguing, "Rep. Santos cannot overcome the presumption of openness" afforded by the First Amendment and federal common law. The judge noted that Santos can move to modify the conditions of his bail if his remaining guarantors decide to back out.

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NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - George Santos's father and aunt were identified on Thursday as the guarantors of the indicted U.S. representative's $500,000 bail, after Santos fought unsuccessfully to keep them anonymous. The House of Representatives' Ethics Committee also wanted the names, to determine whether Santos violated congressional rules on gifts. Seybert called it "disingenuous" to suggest that Santos' father and aunt might be endangered, noting that they came forward to offer help after the congressman's high-profile arraignment and expressed no concerns about guaranteeing bail. "My family & I have made peace with the judges decision to release their names," Santos posted on Twitter. Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Alistair Bell and Daniel WallisOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

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☆ George Santos' sister still owes nearly $20,000 in back rent on a Queens apartment they once shared
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-22 | by ( Haven Orecchio-Egresitz | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. George Santos' sister, Tiffany, once bilked the landlord of her Queens apartment out of $40,000 in rent, according to court documents. A lawyer for the landlord told Insider Thursday that she has not started making payments. Two lawyers for legal services who represented Devolder Santos in the case didn't immediately return emails seeking comment. On Thursday afternoon, Santos told Insider by text message that he never lived at the Elmhurst apartment. "As for my sisters Perosnal (sic) dealings I'm unaware of them and find it interesting that the struggles of a private citizen newsworthy," Santos told Insider by text.

Persons: George Santos, Tiffany, —, Tiffany Lee Devolder Santos, George Santos —, Devolder Santos, Todd Rothenberg, Santos, Rothenberg, Joseph Murray, Jacob Shamsian Organizations: Service, Queens County Civil Court, Property Partners, Queens, Daily, World Trade Center, Baruch College, New York University Locations: Queens, Queens County, Elmhurst, York, Brazil, Santos

☆ George Santos bail backers will be revealed Thursday, judge orders
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

U.S. Representative George Santos (R-NY) speaks to the media as he leaves Central Islip Federal Courthouse in Central Islip, New York, May 10, 2023. The identities of the people who guaranteed Rep. George Santos' $500,000 bond in his criminal fraud case will be revealed Thursday at noon ET, a federal judge ordered Tuesday. Other sealed documents in the case, including Seybert's full written order, are also scheduled to be unsealed Thursday, according to a docket entry in Santos' case. After his initial court appearance, Santos was released on a $500,000 bond backed by multiple guarantors, whose names were kept under seal. A magistrate judge in the case sided with the news outlets earlier this month but gave Santos time to appeal the decision.

Persons: Representative George Santos, George Santos, Judge Joanna Seybert's, Santos, Joseph Murray, Murray, Republican Party's Organizations: Representative, Islip Federal, Republican, New York Times Locations: Islip, Central Islip , New York, U.S, Long

☆ Who paid the $500,000 to bail George Santos out of jail? We'll probably find out on Thursday.
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-20 | by ( Bryan Metzger | Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A group of three people are on the hook for $500,000 to keep Rep. George Santos out of jail. On Thursday at noon Eastern Time, documents revealing the identities of the three people who paid the scandal-plagued congressman's $500,000 bond will be unsealed after US District Judge Joanna Seybert denied Santos' most recent appeal. The judge allowed Santos to walk free instead of going to jail ahead of trial on the condition that he stays in Washington, DC and New York, and agrees to a $500,000 bond. But in a highly unusual decision, the magistrate judge who imposed the bond allowed the identities of those bail sponsors to remain secret. One of the three people who originally agreed to sponsor the bond already dropped out, Murray said.

Persons: George Santos, —, Joanna Seybert, Santos, Joseph Murray, Murray, Guo Wengui, GUO Organizations: Rep, Service Locations: George Santos of New York, Washington , DC, New York

☆ Santos asks court to reverse order to reveal his bail backers' identities in criminal fraud case
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., asked a federal court Friday morning to reverse a judge's order to reveal the identities of the people who guaranteed the $500,000 bond in his criminal fraud case. An attorney for Santos, the scandal-plagued freshman congressman who is charged with multiple financial crimes, argued that the backers' identities should remain private because of concerns that they will be attacked and harassed as a result of the "media frenzy" surrounding the case. But Murray said that "countervailing factors" support keeping the bail backers' identities under wraps. He said that Santos, his staff and others have been subjected to "hateful attacks" through the case. He added that if the other two backers' identities are released, they are likely to decide "that they shall have to withdraw from, serving as suretors."

Persons: George Santos, Santos, Joseph Murray, Murray, Anne Shields, Shields, Judge Shields Organizations: Rep, Republican, Democratic, Capitol, Santos, The New York Times Locations: Washington, Long

☆ George Santos says the people backing up his bond are family members who will bail on him if their names are publicly released
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Santos' lawyer asked a federal judge not to release the names of the people backing Santos' bond. Santos' lawyer says family members would likely abandon Santos if their names are made public. In a court filing in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, attorney Joseph Murray asked District Court Judge Joanna Seybert to block the names of Santos' guarantors from being released. Murray said that Santos and his staff have faced a "media frenzy and hateful attacks" since Santos was indicted. Insider is among a coalition of news organizations seeking the names of the bond suretors.

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☆ George Santos Says His Family Helped Bail Him Out. (Just Don’t Ask Who.)
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-09 | by ( Grace Ashford | Michael Gold | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +1 min

Mr. Santos, a Republican representing Long Island and parts of Queens, is facing 13 felony counts including money laundering and wire fraud. A group of media organizations, including The New York Times, requested last month that the identities of the people who guaranteed Mr. Santos’s bail bond be unsealed. In a motion filed on Monday, Mr. Murray shared a response he wrote to the Ethics Committee’s questions about bail, in which he pointed to House ethics rules that permit gifts from family members. Mr. Murray said that he would not oppose a targeted unsealing that would confirm to the public and to House investigators that Mr. Santos’s guarantors were family members, without fully revealing their names or exact relationships to Mr. Santos. Though the suretors did not hand over actual money, they will be on the hook for the $500,000 if Mr. Santos flees prosecution.

Persons: Joanna Seybert, Santos, Santos’s, Murray, Santos’s guarantors Organizations: Republican, The New York Times Locations: Long, Queens

☆ Rep. George Santos says he'd rather forfeit his $500,000 bond and go to jail than out the people who guaranteed the money: court docs
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Jennifer Cunningham | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

Rep. George Santos has asked a judge to keep the names of the people who guaranteed his half-million-dollar bond a secret. And if the judge mandates that his guarantors be identified, Santos said he'd forfeit his bond and remain jailed until his trial, according to court documents obtained by Insider. "A few hours later on Friday, June 2, 2023, I received a call wherein a male voice just shouted what sounded like, 'Who paid Santo's bond?' Last month, Judge Shields held a clandestine hearing with the bond guarantors, court filings show, and their names have not been revealed to the public. The judge has not yet ruled on whether or not to make the suretors' names public.

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☆ A federal judge says she'll reveal who is backing George Santos' bond, but she's giving the GOP lawmaker one last chance to appeal
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Kelly Mclaughlin | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

A federal judge plans to release the names of the people who backed George Santos' bond. She said she's giving Santos until noon Friday to appeal her decision. Santos' lawyer begged the judge not to identify his guarantors in a letter on Monday. Shields said Santos and his lawyers have until noon on Friday to appeal her ruling. In a letter to Shields on Monday, Santos, through his lawyer Joseph Murray, begged the judge not to identify his guarantors.

Persons: George Santos, she's, Santos, —, Anne Shields, Shields, Joseph Murray, Murray Organizations: Service, GOP, Court, Eastern, of, Prosecutors Locations: Santos, of New York

☆ Rep. George Santos mystery bail backers' identities must be revealed, judge rules
▼ + stars: | 2023-06-06 | by ( Kevin Breuninger | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., speaks to reporters after a vote to send a resolution to the Ethics panel in an attempt to expel him from the House, on Capitol Hill on Wednesday, May 17, 2023, in Washington, DC. The identities of the three people who guaranteed Rep. George Santos' $500,000 bond in his criminal fraud case must be revealed, a federal magistrate judge ordered Tuesday. But Santos, the embattled freshman Republican lawmaker from New York who was charged last month with an array of financial crimes, has until noon on Friday to appeal the decision, Magistrate Judge Anne Shields ordered. Santos admitted lying about his professional background and education, but he has denied other wrongdoing and pushed back on subsequent damning reporting about his business activities. The judge's decision was filed under seal in order to allow Santos to file his appeal.

Persons: George Santos, Santos, Anne Shields, Joseph Murray, Murray Organizations: Capitol, The New York Times Locations: Washington ,, New York

☆ A judge reportedly held a secret hearing with the 3 anonymous people sponsoring George Santos's $500,000 bail
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-25 | by ( Jacob Shamsian | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +4 min

A court filing said a judge held sealed court hearings with them to keep their identities secret. In a letter filed to court Wednesday, Dana R. Green, a lawyer for The New York Times, said the court held another secret hearing with the sponsors. It's unclear whether the hearing was overseen by Shields or US District Judge Joanna Seybert, to whom Santos's case has since been assigned. After a group of news organizations — including Insider — asked the judge to unseal their names, arguing they were in the public interest, the judge ultimately made the names public. Unlike in the Bankman-Fried case, there's no public record that Santos's attorney asked for the bail-sponsor names to remain sealed.

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