Pushkin. Hey, it's Jake. I'm in your feed today to tell you about a special mini series that the

Deep Cover team is releasing very soon. It's all about George Santos, the Republican congressman from New York,

who told a lot of stories about his life and his credentials,

many of which turns out or not true.

And now in just a few weeks, Santos is scheduled to face a criminal trial.

This is a story that my producer Amy Gaines McQuaid

has been following for a while. She's talked to a lot of people

to try to answer the question, who is George Santos really?

It's like Mr. Rickley meets catch me if you can. I mean the guy hoodwinked everyone.

George Santos did not give me access. He became a challenge to me. I needed to talk to this man.

Clearly I want to ask where he got his money from,

because that was like the big discrepancy, right?

He was very ambiguous and sketchy quite quite honestly about what the company did and how it made so much money overnight.

What prosecutors allege in the indictment is that most of that $12,000 goes directly to Santos' personal bank account.

I would go down these rabbit holes

and start thinking about like what is the nature of truth?

You know, like what can I actually like tell the reader

is real about this guy's story.

My phone is literally blowing up inquiries about saying,

is George going to jail, what's going on?

And I thought, oh my God, this is, like, why are you doing that?

Like, why?

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