Odaily Planet Daily News US Representative George Santos of New York State tried to conduct cryptocurrency transactions with political donors during his 2020 election for Congress.
At the time, Santos teamed up with Republican supporters to pitch a sophisticated cryptocurrency investment plan to a loyal donor during his failed first bid for the House of Representatives, the New York Times reported.
Santos and three accomplices claim that a wealthy Polish citizen wanted to buy cryptocurrencies but his funds were mysteriously frozen in a bank account. They asked the wealthy donor to create a limited liability company that allegedly had access to the frozen funds.
But the scheme made little sense to skeptical donors, who likened it to the "Prince of Nigeria" email scam designed to lure unsuspecting victims into transferring funds. He suspects that Santos and his associates may even be the target of such scams.
When the donor asked for more information, he was told to first sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Santos associates Michael LiPetri, Dominick Sartorio and one other were named on the non-disclosure agreement. But talks stalled when investors sought to amend the agreement. (Decrypt)
According to previous reports, in January this year, documents from the U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC) showed that several former executives of the encryption exchange FTX provided information to George Santos, the "liar congressman" during his campaign for the 2022 congressional election. Maximum donation.
In the summer of 2022, FTX co-CEO Ryan Salame, former FTX executive Claire Watanabe, and the company's former head of product Ramnik Arora all donated the maximum amount allowed under federal law to Santos' campaign.