June 3, 2026
Trump Got Him Out Of Prison, Now Ex Congressman Makes Bid To Go Back: You Won’t Believe Why
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RSS Feed The Department of Justice has opened a new investigation into former New York Republican Congressman George Santos. President Trump commuted his 7 year sentence for financial crimes, but now he’s being investigated for insider trading. Officials say Santos bet against himself attending Trump’s SOTU address, after telling his X followers he was going. By NOT going, he was then able to cash in tens of thousands of dollars with his bet.
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Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Wednesday, June third.
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Speaker 2: He was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, but he got out after only four months. What a blessing, right, But it seems like former Congressman, former very controversial Congressman, George Santos is trying to go right back to prison. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ rolls. He hasn't been out of I mean, what a gift. Trump got him out of prison.
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Speaker 3: Yes, seven years in federal prison.
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Speaker 4: He only served four months, and then it only took him four months later to do something that very well may land him back in prison.
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Speaker 3: He wasted no time.
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Speaker 2: How do you go from getting out of federal prison in four months later you are under federal investigation again for something brand new.
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Speaker 4: By the way, and when you look a little bit deeper into George Santos, it appears maybe this is just who he is. It seems as though he's built up a lifetime's worth of well, let's just say, getting away with stuff or lying about things and.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes facing the consequences.
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Speaker 2: But not really that classic line NFL coach can't remembers now his name.
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Speaker 3: They are who we thought they were exactly he is who we.
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Speaker 1: Thought he is. You're talking about staying on brand.
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Speaker 3: Believe people when they show you who they are.
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Speaker 2: He's been screaming and trying to tell everybody who he is. This is George Santos wrote, This is a guy who was elected to Congress and was under indictment a few months later and kicked out within the same year. That's the guy we're talking about. George Santos is in trouble once again. Why possible insider trading robes on these prediction markets.
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Speaker 4: This is ridiculous and he is just the latest in a recent fairly significant long list of public folks making really stupid decisions because some.
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Speaker 3: How they think.
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Speaker 4: I mean, when you're a name, especially and you have inside information, whether you're a Google employee or a federal employee, when you have information that only you could have, and then you use it to place a bet that's.
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Speaker 2: Illegal, very much so, and can get you prison time. We're not just talking about fines. This is a big deal. The funniest part, if there is going to be one about this story role just the ridiculousness and the boldness I guess of what he was doing and how he thought he was going to get away with this because he was being very public about this whole situation that has now landed him in trouble.
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Speaker 4: Yes, so Congressman, I guess just say. Former Congressman George Santos, who had just yes recently been released from prison pardoned by President Trump in October, takes to social media to announce to everyone on x in a video saying I'm going to be there for the State of the US in the gallery guys. Like he was so excited right to be a part of the State of the Union after having been in prison. Yp.
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Speaker 3: Now he's free.
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Speaker 4: Now he's gonna sit there and watch the man who set him free give his address to the nation.
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Speaker 2: This is a big deal and people were curious. So we've been learning more and more about these markets, these prediction markets, the big ones, Polymarket and Calshi.
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Speaker 3: Yes, the two.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so this one in particular Calshi. When he put up that tweet saying I'm going to be there at the State of the Union in the gallery guys, well, the odds went up and people you can bet on just about anything, but people were betting on who's going to attend the State of the Union. There were bets on al Green right from Texas. They were just bets. Who's gonna be there, what's gonna happen? He puts out this tweet. The odds go up because people think, ah, let me put some money on this, and I'm gonna make some money. Okay, fine, State of the Union rolls around. President wal gets the talking, looking around the gallery, Robes don't see Santos.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And in fact, he then gets on X once again and says, watching State of the Union from an airport TV was not part of the plan exclamation point FML, which I think most of us know what that means. Oh case of my life, like, oh, whoopsie, this wasn't planned. Can't believe I turned out not to be able to watch the State of the Union there in the halls of Congress.
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Speaker 2: Now at the time, a lay person like me would have just seen it. Oh he thought he were gonna go. Maybe he couldn't get a ticket, maybe he couldn't get access, maybe he couldn't get clearance, maybe his flight got who knows. I wouldn't have thought anything else about.
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Speaker 1: It at all.
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Speaker 2: However, some people did notice, and Robes the market itself noticed Calshi because Robes, before he put out, before he put out that second tweet about the airport, he did a little something that got him in trouble.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he placed some bets on himself not attending the State of the Union. And guess what when he put out that initial video on x as you mentioned, the odds went up. There were just to give you an idea, because this is not a victimless crime.
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Speaker 3: People lose money.
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Speaker 4: And so there were millions of dollars worth of bets placed on who would be at the State of the Union address, and absolutely Santos was a part of that equation. When he then puts up the next video while the President is giving his address, saying Oopsie, I'm not there, the odds dropped.
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Speaker 3: But here's the deal.
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Speaker 4: He had already placed the bet that he wasn't going to be there, so he cashed out, and according to several news outlets, he scored tens of thousands of dollars in profits on betting against himself because he knew the charge maybe that he wasn't going to attend and deliberately made that bet.
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Speaker 2: It was information only he had that of course, is illegal. Now, Robes the site itself caught this pretty immediately, and they seem to be on top of it because they turned his butt in quickly.
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Speaker 3: They did.
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Speaker 4: They froze his account, They sent over all the information they had to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice, which have now both opened formal investigations into Santo. So, yeah, this is criminal. He could be going back to prison. And this seems fairly black and white when you look at what cal she says happened. I don't know how he has a defense to any of this.
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Speaker 2: Mason, maybe somebody else was messing around in his account, maybe robes he honestly, honestly, how could he have made an honest bet?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: How could you have bet against yourself going and then go, You're gonna lose money? I mean, so no, there's no way to explain. Okay, so exactly what I'm trying to make.
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Speaker 1: It make sense.
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Speaker 4: And so this is a fairly stunning I don't want to say obvious, but clearly it's understandable why the Justice Department is looking into this now. And look, I don't know how President Trump feels about pardoning somebody, and look to understand who this man is he had been charged with. He was hit with an indictment in May of twenty twenty three. He was sworn as a representative in January, so we're just talking months later. He is charged with thirteen counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and stealing money from political donors. So yeah, he has a history of deception and profiting from that deception. He was expelled from Congress later that year, and yeah, he was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison.
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Speaker 1: But again, I threw a lot of people out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah he's a Republican, but the president kind of went out on a limb and got him out of Prisidon. Can you remind me did he pardon them or he just commuted the sentence. I can't remember which ways I don't so I don't know if the thing has been thrown out.
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Speaker 3: He commuted his sense, Okay, so he.
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Speaker 2: Got him out of prison. Look that was a huge that's a new lease on life, ropes, you get a new opportunity. This made me think of just in this moment as we've been doing this, OHJ you.
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Speaker 1: Remember OJ served all that time?
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Speaker 3: You remember you remember for stealing his own own memorability.
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Speaker 2: Like you were found not guilty of murder when everybody is pretty damn sure you're the.
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Speaker 4: Murderer, even after you wrote a book if I did it and detailed how you did it.
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Speaker 2: But think about that, you got away with murder and then you go into prison for stealing some cards.
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Speaker 1: This guy got out of prison. Seven years is a long time.
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Speaker 3: That's a very long time in prison life, a new.
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Speaker 1: Lease on life. And really he came out and did this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and by the way, to get elected. And he's he's from New York Republican.
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Speaker 3: Congressman from New York. He ran for office on a resume of lies. Literally his personal life.
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Speaker 4: Everything he detailed two voters that got him elected were lies.
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Speaker 2: It's not just lying about your GPA a little bit. No, it's not just this is major, like verifiable stuff.
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Speaker 1: This was a big time.
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Speaker 3: Here are the lies.
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Speaker 4: His lies were that he graduated from Baroke College in the top one percent of his class.
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Speaker 1: Impressive.
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Speaker 3: Didn't happen.
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Speaker 4: He said his mother was working in the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the September eleventh attacks.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't.
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Speaker 3: They're not true. He said he was Jewish. He's not. He claimed his grandparents escaped the Holocaust.
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Speaker 4: They did not. It says, if everything he said to get elected was lies, he gets elected, then while in office, he gets slapped with all of these criminal wrongdoings. He goes to prison, he gets that commuted, and now months later he's back at it again.
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Speaker 2: And here's the point where Robes I always put in the disco that he is an innocent man until proving guilty and in the court of law. Right, who knows, Maybe there's an excuse me, there's a perfectly good explanation for all of this. But as we say oftentimes Robes, this really is on brand for him. This really really is a lies deception, cheating money, wire fraud, it's all. He's been convicted of all that stuff, and here he is once again facing it. Now we're talking about this here now in this particular case. That's kind of mind blowing that he could think he would get away with this. But there have been some recent cases where people made a whole lot much more money than just a few tens of thousands they got caught to their facing charges too.
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Speaker 1: Will remind you stare.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we are talking about former Congressman George Santos back in the headlines for similar allegations.
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Speaker 1: You could say, same old George.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he got caught. According to Well, the Department of Justice is investigating. He got caught betting against himself. Basically, he used insider trading about whether or not he was going to attend the State of the Union address, and first of all, put out what someone would claim was a very deceptive video to say I'm gonna be at the State of the Union. Then he bets on Calshi that he's not going to be there, and oopsie, in the middle of the speech, he puts out a tweet saying, oh, turns out I couldn't make this speech.
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Speaker 3: Can't believe I'm watching here at an airport lounge.
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Speaker 1: You messing with the markets. They take that stuff very very seriously.
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Speaker 3: People lost money.
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Speaker 1: On his deception. That is a big issue. And Robes.
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Speaker 2: The one that made the biggest headlines. We couldn't believe this one either, Robes, this was out the Villainsuzuela Raig, which is ye than what anuary? Yes, special forces guy?
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Speaker 1: Right, what are you special forces?
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Speaker 3: He was special Forces?
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Speaker 4: He was He's that guy who you who helps you sleep at night. He's that guy who's out there protecting the United States of America. He's that guy who we are grateful is on that aircraft carrier and headed to whatever region to make sure we're all safe.
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Speaker 3: Uh. Yeah, apparently he wasn't getting paid enough.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, he made four hundred thousand dollars by betting exactly when Maduro what well if he was, and when Maduro would be.
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Speaker 3: It was specificaken from his home country.
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Speaker 4: It was a date right to the United States to face justice and what so weird he knew the exact date.
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Speaker 3: Well, it turns out he was on the mission.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was That was a tough one, and he's a Look, they don't pay these guys much. He's a Special Forces. I think we looked wasn't much.
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Speaker 4: To think about what they do, Gannon hen van Dyke, what they do to become who they are, to stay as fit and fierce as they are and absolutely risk their lives.
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Speaker 2: You know, I know you can't do this. I'm not mad at him for breaking off a little piece for himself. Now, I would have preferred if he just would have walked by a gold bar while he was on the ground and put it in his pocket. Count Yeah this was a little.
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Speaker 3: Much, Yeah, all right.
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Speaker 4: And then this was another one that just made headlines because it was had such a bizarre connection to a big crime case here in the United States. But a Google employee bet that the what the number one Google search trend would be of the year twenty twenty five, and he put the his bet as the most searched person would be the singer known as David.
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Speaker 3: Well, here's the deal. He's a Google employee, so he.
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Speaker 4: Clearly had access to information that us mere mortals don't, so he was able to place that bet fairly confidently. And he made one point two million dollars on that bed. But now he too is facing criminal charges.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't mind.
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Speaker 2: At least he went for it, right, No tens of thousands if I'm going to risk prison.
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Speaker 3: Time one point two million or.
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Speaker 1: Go for it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how folks think they can get away with this stuff. It's remarkable, some of these and look at maybe.
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Speaker 4: People do and maybe that's how some folks have gotten away with it.
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Speaker 3: And look who knows.
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Speaker 4: Like I was already thinking, I don't know how they catch these people. And I understand why it's necessary, but couldn't you just ask a friend to do it and tell them and then or someone someone who you might not be immediately connected to. I guess they'll like you just go back to Martha Stewart.
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Speaker 3: I know, but I'm just thinking, how dumb to do it.
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Speaker 4: Yourself, because obviously you had inside information, and for you to financially gain from information that only you could know, you would think that that's an obvious red flag for any company looking to police this, which they are.
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Speaker 2: Well, we will, Well we wait because we don't know how quickly this investigation about the Commodities Futures Commission and by the DLJA, how quickly those two might go. But he is under scrutiny once again. I thought it was interesting too. I have it in their robes when he MPR. I've been doing reporting on this story, and they did reach out to him, and apparently he was lying to them as well on the phone.
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Speaker 4: It seems like it's something he's really well versed in. But yes, when they asked him about this investigation, he said, that's news to me. He also claimed to have some personal connection with one of the CALSHI founders because they're both from Brazil. And apparently that too was not true that the Calshi founder said, I have no idea who that is and we've never met, but he said that they were close personal friends.
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Speaker 3: Did you read that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gonna call and get it all straight now, just some little misunderstanding. But then when he was asked do you have a Calchhi account, his answer, I'm not saying yes, I'm not saying no.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I guess it wasn't a lie. He just chose not to answer.
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Speaker 1: He's turning over therapy is helping pulse. We appreciate you as always.
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Speaker 2: This is a bizarre story with this guy out of Congress but once again back in the headlines for some of the same things that got him kicked out of Congress. But we always appreciate you spending a little time here with us on TJ on behalf of my dear Amy Robock.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to y'all soon.
Speaker 1: Hey, the folks, it is Wednesday, June third.
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Speaker 2: He was sentenced to seven years in federal prison, but he got out after only four months. What a blessing, right, But it seems like former Congressman, former very controversial Congressman, George Santos is trying to go right back to prison. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ rolls. He hasn't been out of I mean, what a gift. Trump got him out of prison.
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Speaker 3: Yes, seven years in federal prison.
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Speaker 4: He only served four months, and then it only took him four months later to do something that very well may land him back in prison.
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Speaker 3: He wasted no time.
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Speaker 2: How do you go from getting out of federal prison in four months later you are under federal investigation again for something brand new.
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Speaker 4: By the way, and when you look a little bit deeper into George Santos, it appears maybe this is just who he is. It seems as though he's built up a lifetime's worth of well, let's just say, getting away with stuff or lying about things and.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes facing the consequences.
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Speaker 2: But not really that classic line NFL coach can't remembers now his name.
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Speaker 3: They are who we thought they were exactly he is who we.
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Speaker 1: Thought he is. You're talking about staying on brand.
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Speaker 3: Believe people when they show you who they are.
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Speaker 2: He's been screaming and trying to tell everybody who he is. This is George Santos wrote, This is a guy who was elected to Congress and was under indictment a few months later and kicked out within the same year. That's the guy we're talking about. George Santos is in trouble once again. Why possible insider trading robes on these prediction markets.
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Speaker 4: This is ridiculous and he is just the latest in a recent fairly significant long list of public folks making really stupid decisions because some.
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Speaker 3: How they think.
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Speaker 4: I mean, when you're a name, especially and you have inside information, whether you're a Google employee or a federal employee, when you have information that only you could have, and then you use it to place a bet that's.
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Speaker 2: Illegal, very much so, and can get you prison time. We're not just talking about fines. This is a big deal. The funniest part, if there is going to be one about this story role just the ridiculousness and the boldness I guess of what he was doing and how he thought he was going to get away with this because he was being very public about this whole situation that has now landed him in trouble.
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Speaker 4: Yes, so Congressman, I guess just say. Former Congressman George Santos, who had just yes recently been released from prison pardoned by President Trump in October, takes to social media to announce to everyone on x in a video saying I'm going to be there for the State of the US in the gallery guys. Like he was so excited right to be a part of the State of the Union after having been in prison. Yp.
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Speaker 3: Now he's free.
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Speaker 4: Now he's gonna sit there and watch the man who set him free give his address to the nation.
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Speaker 2: This is a big deal and people were curious. So we've been learning more and more about these markets, these prediction markets, the big ones, Polymarket and Calshi.
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Speaker 3: Yes, the two.
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Speaker 2: Yes, so this one in particular Calshi. When he put up that tweet saying I'm going to be there at the State of the Union in the gallery guys, well, the odds went up and people you can bet on just about anything, but people were betting on who's going to attend the State of the Union. There were bets on al Green right from Texas. They were just bets. Who's gonna be there, what's gonna happen? He puts out this tweet. The odds go up because people think, ah, let me put some money on this, and I'm gonna make some money. Okay, fine, State of the Union rolls around. President wal gets the talking, looking around the gallery, Robes don't see Santos.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And in fact, he then gets on X once again and says, watching State of the Union from an airport TV was not part of the plan exclamation point FML, which I think most of us know what that means. Oh case of my life, like, oh, whoopsie, this wasn't planned. Can't believe I turned out not to be able to watch the State of the Union there in the halls of Congress.
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Speaker 2: Now at the time, a lay person like me would have just seen it. Oh he thought he were gonna go. Maybe he couldn't get a ticket, maybe he couldn't get access, maybe he couldn't get clearance, maybe his flight got who knows. I wouldn't have thought anything else about.
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Speaker 1: It at all.
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Speaker 2: However, some people did notice, and Robes the market itself noticed Calshi because Robes, before he put out, before he put out that second tweet about the airport, he did a little something that got him in trouble.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he placed some bets on himself not attending the State of the Union. And guess what when he put out that initial video on x as you mentioned, the odds went up. There were just to give you an idea, because this is not a victimless crime.
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Speaker 3: People lose money.
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Speaker 4: And so there were millions of dollars worth of bets placed on who would be at the State of the Union address, and absolutely Santos was a part of that equation. When he then puts up the next video while the President is giving his address, saying Oopsie, I'm not there, the odds dropped.
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Speaker 3: But here's the deal.
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Speaker 4: He had already placed the bet that he wasn't going to be there, so he cashed out, and according to several news outlets, he scored tens of thousands of dollars in profits on betting against himself because he knew the charge maybe that he wasn't going to attend and deliberately made that bet.
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Speaker 2: It was information only he had that of course, is illegal. Now, Robes the site itself caught this pretty immediately, and they seem to be on top of it because they turned his butt in quickly.
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Speaker 3: They did.
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Speaker 4: They froze his account, They sent over all the information they had to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Department of Justice, which have now both opened formal investigations into Santo. So, yeah, this is criminal. He could be going back to prison. And this seems fairly black and white when you look at what cal she says happened. I don't know how he has a defense to any of this.
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Speaker 2: Mason, maybe somebody else was messing around in his account, maybe robes he honestly, honestly, how could he have made an honest bet?
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Speaker 1: Right?
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Speaker 2: How could you have bet against yourself going and then go, You're gonna lose money? I mean, so no, there's no way to explain. Okay, so exactly what I'm trying to make.
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Speaker 1: It make sense.
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Speaker 4: And so this is a fairly stunning I don't want to say obvious, but clearly it's understandable why the Justice Department is looking into this now. And look, I don't know how President Trump feels about pardoning somebody, and look to understand who this man is he had been charged with. He was hit with an indictment in May of twenty twenty three. He was sworn as a representative in January, so we're just talking months later. He is charged with thirteen counts of wire fraud, money laundering, and stealing money from political donors. So yeah, he has a history of deception and profiting from that deception. He was expelled from Congress later that year, and yeah, he was sentenced to more than seven years in federal prison.
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Speaker 1: But again, I threw a lot of people out.
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Speaker 2: Yeah he's a Republican, but the president kind of went out on a limb and got him out of Prisidon. Can you remind me did he pardon them or he just commuted the sentence. I can't remember which ways I don't so I don't know if the thing has been thrown out.
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Speaker 3: He commuted his sense, Okay, so he.
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Speaker 2: Got him out of prison. Look that was a huge that's a new lease on life, ropes, you get a new opportunity. This made me think of just in this moment as we've been doing this, OHJ you.
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Speaker 1: Remember OJ served all that time?
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Speaker 3: You remember you remember for stealing his own own memorability.
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Speaker 2: Like you were found not guilty of murder when everybody is pretty damn sure you're the.
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Speaker 4: Murderer, even after you wrote a book if I did it and detailed how you did it.
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Speaker 2: But think about that, you got away with murder and then you go into prison for stealing some cards.
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Speaker 1: This guy got out of prison. Seven years is a long time.
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Speaker 3: That's a very long time in prison life, a new.
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Speaker 1: Lease on life. And really he came out and did this.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, and by the way, to get elected. And he's he's from New York Republican.
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Speaker 3: Congressman from New York. He ran for office on a resume of lies. Literally his personal life.
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Speaker 4: Everything he detailed two voters that got him elected were lies.
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Speaker 2: It's not just lying about your GPA a little bit. No, it's not just this is major, like verifiable stuff.
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Speaker 1: This was a big time.
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Speaker 3: Here are the lies.
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Speaker 4: His lies were that he graduated from Baroke College in the top one percent of his class.
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Speaker 1: Impressive.
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Speaker 3: Didn't happen.
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Speaker 4: He said his mother was working in the South Tower of the World Trade Center during the September eleventh attacks.
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Speaker 1: She wasn't.
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Speaker 3: They're not true. He said he was Jewish. He's not. He claimed his grandparents escaped the Holocaust.
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Speaker 4: They did not. It says, if everything he said to get elected was lies, he gets elected, then while in office, he gets slapped with all of these criminal wrongdoings. He goes to prison, he gets that commuted, and now months later he's back at it again.
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Speaker 2: And here's the point where Robes I always put in the disco that he is an innocent man until proving guilty and in the court of law. Right, who knows, Maybe there's an excuse me, there's a perfectly good explanation for all of this. But as we say oftentimes Robes, this really is on brand for him. This really really is a lies deception, cheating money, wire fraud, it's all. He's been convicted of all that stuff, and here he is once again facing it. Now we're talking about this here now in this particular case. That's kind of mind blowing that he could think he would get away with this. But there have been some recent cases where people made a whole lot much more money than just a few tens of thousands they got caught to their facing charges too.
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Speaker 1: Will remind you stare.
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Speaker 4: Welcome back everyone to this episode of Amy and TJ, where we are talking about former Congressman George Santos back in the headlines for similar allegations.
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Speaker 1: You could say, same old George.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he got caught. According to Well, the Department of Justice is investigating. He got caught betting against himself. Basically, he used insider trading about whether or not he was going to attend the State of the Union address, and first of all, put out what someone would claim was a very deceptive video to say I'm gonna be at the State of the Union. Then he bets on Calshi that he's not going to be there, and oopsie, in the middle of the speech, he puts out a tweet saying, oh, turns out I couldn't make this speech.
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Speaker 3: Can't believe I'm watching here at an airport lounge.
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Speaker 1: You messing with the markets. They take that stuff very very seriously.
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Speaker 3: People lost money.
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Speaker 1: On his deception. That is a big issue. And Robes.
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Speaker 2: The one that made the biggest headlines. We couldn't believe this one either, Robes, this was out the Villainsuzuela Raig, which is ye than what anuary? Yes, special forces guy?
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Speaker 1: Right, what are you special forces?
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Speaker 3: He was special Forces?
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Speaker 4: He was He's that guy who you who helps you sleep at night. He's that guy who's out there protecting the United States of America. He's that guy who we are grateful is on that aircraft carrier and headed to whatever region to make sure we're all safe.
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Speaker 3: Uh. Yeah, apparently he wasn't getting paid enough.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree with that.
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Speaker 4: But yeah, he made four hundred thousand dollars by betting exactly when Maduro what well if he was, and when Maduro would be.
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Speaker 3: It was specificaken from his home country.
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Speaker 4: It was a date right to the United States to face justice and what so weird he knew the exact date.
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Speaker 3: Well, it turns out he was on the mission.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that was That was a tough one, and he's a Look, they don't pay these guys much. He's a Special Forces. I think we looked wasn't much.
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Speaker 4: To think about what they do, Gannon hen van Dyke, what they do to become who they are, to stay as fit and fierce as they are and absolutely risk their lives.
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Speaker 2: You know, I know you can't do this. I'm not mad at him for breaking off a little piece for himself. Now, I would have preferred if he just would have walked by a gold bar while he was on the ground and put it in his pocket. Count Yeah this was a little.
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Speaker 3: Much, Yeah, all right.
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Speaker 4: And then this was another one that just made headlines because it was had such a bizarre connection to a big crime case here in the United States. But a Google employee bet that the what the number one Google search trend would be of the year twenty twenty five, and he put the his bet as the most searched person would be the singer known as David.
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Speaker 3: Well, here's the deal. He's a Google employee, so he.
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Speaker 4: Clearly had access to information that us mere mortals don't, so he was able to place that bet fairly confidently. And he made one point two million dollars on that bed. But now he too is facing criminal charges.
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Speaker 1: No, I don't mind.
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Speaker 2: At least he went for it, right, No tens of thousands if I'm going to risk prison.
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Speaker 3: Time one point two million or.
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Speaker 1: Go for it.
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Speaker 2: I don't know how folks think they can get away with this stuff. It's remarkable, some of these and look at maybe.
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Speaker 4: People do and maybe that's how some folks have gotten away with it.
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Speaker 3: And look who knows.
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Speaker 4: Like I was already thinking, I don't know how they catch these people. And I understand why it's necessary, but couldn't you just ask a friend to do it and tell them and then or someone someone who you might not be immediately connected to. I guess they'll like you just go back to Martha Stewart.
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Speaker 3: I know, but I'm just thinking, how dumb to do it.
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Speaker 4: Yourself, because obviously you had inside information, and for you to financially gain from information that only you could know, you would think that that's an obvious red flag for any company looking to police this, which they are.
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Speaker 2: Well, we will, Well we wait because we don't know how quickly this investigation about the Commodities Futures Commission and by the DLJA, how quickly those two might go. But he is under scrutiny once again. I thought it was interesting too. I have it in their robes when he MPR. I've been doing reporting on this story, and they did reach out to him, and apparently he was lying to them as well on the phone.
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Speaker 4: It seems like it's something he's really well versed in. But yes, when they asked him about this investigation, he said, that's news to me. He also claimed to have some personal connection with one of the CALSHI founders because they're both from Brazil. And apparently that too was not true that the Calshi founder said, I have no idea who that is and we've never met, but he said that they were close personal friends.
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Speaker 3: Did you read that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, he's gonna call and get it all straight now, just some little misunderstanding. But then when he was asked do you have a Calchhi account, his answer, I'm not saying yes, I'm not saying no.
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Speaker 3: Okay, I guess it wasn't a lie. He just chose not to answer.
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Speaker 1: He's turning over therapy is helping pulse. We appreciate you as always.
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Speaker 2: This is a bizarre story with this guy out of Congress but once again back in the headlines for some of the same things that got him kicked out of Congress. But we always appreciate you spending a little time here with us on TJ on behalf of my dear Amy Robock.
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Speaker 1: We'll talk to y'all soon.