Episode 2: The Congressman

Deep Cover

Pushkin Industries

True Crime, History

4.3 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2024

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

George Santos takes office. His communications director, Naysa Woomer, walks us through her five months with Congressman Santos as she tries to manage the chaos and sort fact from fiction. Author Mark Chiusano unpacks some of the most complicated allegations surrounding Santos’ personal narrative.

For more on Mark’s reporting on George Santos, check out his book: The Fabulist - The Lying, Hustling, Grifting, Stealing and Very American Legend of George Santos.

For more on how 9/11 has impacted first responders, and those who lived around Ground Zero, listen to Amy Gaines McQuade’s Frontline Dispatch episode: “The Weight of Dust.”

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

This is a developing story. We will update listeners as more information becomes available.

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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.
0:40.8	So Jake, yeah. Let me take you back to January 2023.
0:45.0	It's a couple weeks after George Santos has been exposed and he shows up in Washington, D.C.
0:51.0	That was the first day I saw him in person. I remember we were walking through the
0:56.5	Cannon House Office building and you could hear a pin drop because people were like,
1:01.6	that's George Santos. That's's did you see that was George
1:04.3	Santos this is Nesa Woomer she was George Santos's communications director
1:09.5	you heard from her in our first episode.
1:12.6	She was actually hired back in December of 2022.
1:16.0	And her first day,
1:18.0	and the first day she would actually meet Santos in person,
1:22.0	came in January.
1:23.6	The amount of reporters and cameras that were outside of our office,
1:27.2	it reminded me of something that you would see back in the 90s
1:31.4	like when Princess Diana would show up somewhere.
1:35.0	Wow.
1:36.0	This was Nace's first day on the job as the communications director, whatever,
1:40.0	but it was also George Santos' basically first day.
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