Santos has been charged with wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and making materially false statements to the House of Representatives
George Santos allegedly lied about being unemployed to collect unemployment benefits.
According to the indictment, in June 2020, Santos applied to receive unemployment insurance benefits through the New York state department of labor. In the application, Santos “falsely claimed to have been unemployed since the week of March 22, 2020.”
