Episode 1: The Campaign

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

True Crime, History

4.3 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Summary

George Santos runs for Congress and wins. Then the stories he told on the campaign trail start to fall apart. Semafor’s Kadia Goba wants to figure out where his money is coming from. Saurav Ghosh, of the Campaign Legal Center, finds the Santos filings suspicious. As Santos’ criminal trial approaches, Producer Amy Gaines McQuade walks Jake Halpern through the moment when the cracks began to show.

Note: George Santos is now expected to plead guilty, as first reported by Talking Points Memo.

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0:00.0	Pushkin.
0:07.0	Hey this is Jake Alburn.
0:10.0	In case you haven't heard, the big news is that former Congressman George Santos, who's facing a host of criminal charges, has said he will take a plea later today.
0:22.0	And by chance, also today, we're dropping our new season, which is all about
0:27.0	George Santos. And it will tell you everything that happened, all the crazy twists and turns that led up to this exact moment. So sit back, listen, and enjoy.
0:38.6	Okay, so, how are we going to start this?
0:43.0	Well, I'm really excited.
0:46.0	This is kind of new for us.
0:48.0	Absolutely, a little role reversal.
0:50.0	Amy Gaines McQuaid is my producer. She's worked on the past four seasons of
0:55.2	deep cover. You may not have heard Amy's voice but in effect you did because
1:00.9	when we do a season of deep cover, Amy's the one that reads through all
1:05.0	thousand pages of the court transcript and knows every last detail.
1:09.0	She's the one who helps me track down sources and weed through hours of interviews to make the
1:14.3	episodes that you've heard. So while we're hard at work on the next season of
1:19.4	Deep Cover, we have a special mini series for you in a brand new format.
1:24.0	About a year ago, Amy comes to me and says,
1:27.0	look, there's this story I really want to report,
1:30.0	a story that took place, in fact fact where Amy had grown up.
1:33.0	A story about a man who may just be one of the greatest liars of all time.
1:39.0	Which got my attention because it sounded an awful lot like a deep cover story unfolding in real
1:46.0	time.
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