I am trying to be less cynical but I can’t help but point out that George Santos has been a very rich resource for the media, and that the incentives to catch a fraudster before they’re elected are not high enough when ‘missing’ something like Santos’s criminality leads to years of easy-to-write and popular-with-audiences material.
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Dan GillmorA reminder that an indictment is not proof. But if even a tenth of what's alleged in the Santos filing is true (and the descriptions are of felonies so brazen that they are almost surely true), this guy is a walking crime wave.
Also a reminder that he got into Congress because every journalism organization (except one that had almost no influence) didn't even attempt to check his lies when it counted.