A story of the crime syndicate in four pictures.
Picture 1: When Congress discovered the multiple serious crimes George Santos had committed, The House overwhelmingly voted to kick him out.
Picture 2: Santos was then sentenced to 7 years in prison for wire fraud.
Picture 3-4: Trump has now commuted his sentence, arguing that Santos is Republican. To Trump it is always "For my friends everything. For my enemies, the law."
George Santos's pardon is mostly about thwarting "follow the money" investigations.
Trump's corrupt GOP are scrambling to hide the fact that a Russian oligarch funds Santos.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/scrutiny-over-george-santos-finances-mount-as-ties-to-former-trump-ally-surface
The prosecutions of Letitia James, Comey, Brennan, Wray, Fanni Willis. All insiders who investigated the money, especially foreign straw donors.
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2018/06/the-nra-spent-dollar30-million-to-elect-trump-was-it-russian-money
This is what Koch Network's Citizens United bought, corruption.
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Thwarting the Epstein files is about hiding the money buying elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/18/business/jeffrey-epstein-leon-black.html
https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600
https://www.newarab.com/news/pro-israel-billionaire-ackman-donates-1-million-stop-mamdani
The massive AI bubble pump & dumps & forced overconsolidated media monopolies -- hiding the election interference by fossil fuel fascists.
https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/analysis-opinion/gauging-ai-threat-free-and-fair-elections
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/opinion/larry-ellison-paramount-cbs-tiktok.html
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/10/14/tech/tiktok-deal-frank-mccourt
https://www.ft.com/content/5b889d6e-e2eb-40d9-bf83-f7297ec5e5fa
Unaffordable housing -- money laundering via real estate
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-17/billionaire-french-oil-heirs-eye-brooklyn-austin-property-deals
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The people of Ukraine are under attack because oil oligarchs bought themselves a presidency.
https://fortune.com/2024/10/26/elon-musk-political-donations-132-million-donald-trump-republican-races/
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2022/10/28/saudis-kingdom-holding-company-to-maintain-twitter-stake
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/13/us/politics/russia-election-interference.html
https://www.newsweek.com/house-speaker-mike-johnson-donations-russia-butina-1838501
The EU is at risk of being dismantled because a president won't tax billionaires who buy foreign policy.
The planet is frying because the fossil fuel industry deliberately destabilizes any democracy that acts on climate.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/the-texas-billionaire-who-has-greenpeace-usa-on-the-verge-of-bankruptcy-04492d4c
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The EU is at risk of being dismantled because a president won't tax billionaires who buy foreign policy.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/03/14/heritage-foundation-project-2025-allies-mcc-ordo-iuris-discuss-dismantling-the-eu-european-union/
The planet is frying because the fossil fuel industry deliberately destabilizes any democracy that acts on climate.
https://www.wsj.com/business/energy-oil/the-texas-billionaire-who-has-greenpeace-usa-on-the-verge-of-bankruptcy-04492d4c
California is at risk of martial law because the fossil fuel industry invests in the tech industry
https://gizmodo.com/salesforce-benioff-apologizes-about-national-guard-2000673833
https://newrepublic.com/article/191506/musk-bezos-pichai-zuckerberg-microsoft-trump-climate
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-benioff-save-trillion-trees/
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/26/climate/billionaire-moguls-and-a-trillion-trees.html
The group that drafted a key blueprint for Donald Trump’s second term convened a meeting in Washington D.C. this week to consider proposals for bulldozing the European Union (EU). The Polish investigative outlet VSquare revealed that the Heritage Foundation gathered hardline conservative groups on 11 March to hear how they would overhaul the current structures […]
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