George Santo's, former roommate from 2016 who lived with him down in Orlando, Florida.
He met him online for a, uh, basically via Facebook group for people from Brazil living
in Orlando.
The man was also convicted and then later deported for a massive credit card fraud scheme
that he has now said was the idea of George Santos himself.
According to a sworn letter that Mr. Gusta, uh, Gustavo, uh, uh, Traya sent to federal
authorities here in the United States, sworn letter, he says that George Santos masterminded
the whole thing, taught him how to skim credit card numbers, gave him the equipment, needed
to scam ATM cards at ATMs, and had a 50 50 deal with him on all of the money that they
stole.
Now, before I read what this man said, please understand he has been convicted.
Uh, he was deported.
So right off the bat, his credibility is a little shaky, at least in the eyes of the
law.
Um, but Santos was already implicated in this scheme to a small degree.
When this man was arrested, he had a box in his car filled with the, you know, little
card skimmers with the address of the apartment that he shared with George Santos.
Santos also showed up in Seattle, which is where he was arrested, uh, to testify at his
bail hearing.
And that's when Santos lied to the judge and said, I, I work at, uh, the major bank.
So here's what he says in the letter.
I'm coming forward today to declare that the person in charge of the crime of credit card
fraud when I was arrested was George Santos slash Anthony DeVol.
Um, Santos taught me how to skim card information and how to clone cards.
He gave me all the materials and taught me how to put skimming devices and cameras on
ATM machines.
He had a lot of material parts, printers, blank ATM and credit cards to be painted and
engraved with stolen account and personal information.
Santos gave me at his warehouse, some of the parts to illegally skim credit card information
right after he gave me the card skimming and clothing machines, he taught me how to use
them.
The investigation, by the way, is actually still ongoing in Seattle.
They had not closed it.
So there is a very strong possibility that Santos may have to leave DC for a little bit
to go talk to some of the investigators over in Seattle, or perhaps they'll make a trip
to dc.
This is serious stuff here.
All right?
These are very serious allegations against a sitting member of Congress.
This isn't just, oh, I lied about my education, I lied about my grandparents and my mom.
No, no, no, no.
This is full-blown criminal activity for which one man was already arrested, convicted, and
deported for engaging in.
And here's the thing.
That's not it.
Let me keep reading here.
We used a computer to be able to download the information on the pieces.
We also used an external hard drive to save the filming because the skimmer took the information
from the card and the camera took the password.
It didn't work out so well because I was arrested.
Santos threatened my friends in Florida that I must not say that he was my boss, but in
his declaration, he did, as I said, mention that we had a 50 50 deal.
And then when George Santos had to go and testify at his bail hearing, he lied to the
judge about where he worked.
Every piece of this story stinks to high heaven based on what we know about George Santos.
All of the instances where, oh, I ended up with a checkbook that belonged to a man that
it was stolen from.
Oh, a bunch of bad checks were written to an Amish dog breeder.
Oh, some of the people on my campaign donor list don't appear to actually exist in real
life.
Um, the financial anomalies, we can call them that we cannot call them crimes as he has
not been convicted.
But these financial anomalies seem to follow George Santos wherever he goes in every single
aspect of his life.
So, if you were to ask me right now, do I personally think that this man is telling
the truth, I'm gonna say, yeah, personally, I believe that it's not up for me to decide.
That is up for the courts to decide.
And hopefully George Santos gets a visit very soon from the federal authorities and the
authorities in Seattle because these kind of allegations, this information that this
man has, you know, the, the detailed information seems a little far fetch for him to be able
to make all that up.