George Santos inks deal to avoid prosecution in Brazil over bad checks

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By DIANE JEANTET and DAVID BILLER

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — A day after New York Rep. George Santos pleaded not guilty to charges in the U.S., he signed an agreement Thursday with public prosecutors in Brazil to avoid prosecution for forging two stolen checks in 2008.

“What would have been the start of a case was ended today,” Santos’ lawyer in Brazil, Jonymar Vasconcelos, told The Associated Press in a text message. “As such, my client is no longer the subject of any case in Brazil.”

Asked about the details of the non-prosecution agreement, Vasconcelos demurred, citing the fact the case proceeded under seal. The public prosecutors’ office of Rio de Janeiro state also declined to comment when contacted by the AP.

Court records in Brazil, first uncovered by The New York Times, show Santos was the subject of a criminal charge for using two stolen checks to buy items at a shop in the city of Niteroi, including a pair of sneakers that he gifted to a friend. At the time, Santos would have been 19. The purchase totaled 2,144 Brazilian reais, then equal to about $1,350, according to the charge prosecutors filed in 2011.




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[Walleye]

1. Good, we went to lock him up here

[KPN]

3. Yeah, including for the campaign funds he used to buy off

that Brazilian criminal prosecution. Lock him up w: TFG.

[machoneman]

2. Ya-know, no one has still answered my question: did he lie on his citizenship application? Very....

....important issue here as if he did (likely) he can get booted out of the USA having lost his citizenship. Send him back tp Brazil, I say!

[Effete Snob]

7. What "citizenship application" are you talking about?

His mother moved to the US in 1985.

He was born in 1988.

While it is not clear where he was born, it is certain that he was either (a) born in the United States or (b) became a US citizen as a young child.

So what is the source of your information that he would have applied for citizenship as an adult?

[Grimelle]

11. This is why his name

is in brackets in the DOJ indictment.
No one knows for sure who he is and what his name is.

[Effete Snob]

12. Where did you get that nonsense?

https://www.justice.gov/d9/2023-05/santos.indictment.pdf



Seriously, where does inane shit like that even come from? Did you make that up on your own, or did you get it from somewhere?

It's a public document, for crying out loud. Anyone can readily see that there is nothing of the sort there.

[Tetrachloride]

4. Brazil coverup. Contradiction in terms ?

[jimfields33]

5. I mean two checks. What do people get here for that?

At 19 years old, first offenses, probation most likely.

[Tetrachloride]

8. I was just having fun with a brainstorm on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro

))))

[jimfields33]

9. Lol. Cool.

[GreenWave]

6. Did he sign with his non-dextrous hand?

I ask because I do not trust this guy.

[SouthernDem4ever]

10. I wonder what he promised them?

State secrets? Drug lord assistance in the US? That he wouldn't vote for border security? There has to be a quid pro quo in there somewhere.

[GregariousGroundhog]

13. 24,000 reais

Per the article,

Per terms of the non-prosecution agreement, Santos will pay 24,000 reais (almost $5,000), with the majority going to the shopkeeper who received the bad checks and the remainder to charities, newspaper Folha de S.Paulo reported, without saying how it obtained the information. Santos attended the meeting virtually, the paper reported.

[SouthernDem4ever]

16. Wow, they could have gotten so much more from him

[ZonkerHarris]

14. His taxpayer funded paycheck settled that case.

[onetexan]

15. I saw Ari melber's clip on this & the documentarian recorded santos

Saying he's entertained the idea of running for potus one day