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Of these charges. and, you know, is george santos his real name? if he goes to trial, it will be very interesting. these are -- many of these charges are all backed up, i bet you, without a doubt by documents. you know, hes accused of lying on disclosure forms. the documents are there. it is very easy to determine whether or not, you know, he was unemployed when he said he was. well, theyre going to see he was working because he was receiving income, but now hes getting $24,000 unemployment. thi...

Seat, despite the fact that these charges have come out. moments ago we hear that he has pled not guilty to all of these charges, a 500,000 cash bail is being put up by three unidentified people who put up the money, and hes due back in court to address these charges on june 30th. chris. >> rehema ellis, thank you for that, and well come back when we see george santos outside the courthouse. we want to take a look at the legal challenges hes facing. i want to bring in matt sanderson, an msnbc la...

Indictments that i drafted. because it is a typical fraud defendant who will lie and deceive in order to get money for one purpose and use it on their personal luxury goods. that is one of the charges. there was also the unemployment insurance fraud charge where george santos himself who was working at that time claimed unemployment insurance, from the cares act. and then of course, he lied as i think we all recognized on his disclosure forms. but there are a couple of things that jumped out to ...

School. in 2015, it was a bronze bust of frederick douglass, which was valued at more than $6,000. those were some of the gifts that supreme court justice clarence thomas listed on his public disclosure filings over the years, in keeping with post watergate federal disclosure laws. while each of those reported items could raise some eyebrows on their own, they are not even the most interesting parts of thomass disclosure forms. for that, you have to look at what is missing from those forms. in t...

Protection laws and are now in the hands of house judiciary committee members, chief justice roberts wife of course continues to earn that kind of income past 2014, it is nearly nine years since that income was earned. and of course chief justice roberts did not disclose the sources of that income in his financial disclosure forms, and he knows he will never pay any price for that, because he knows impeachment is politically impossible. american journalism is very good at exposing such potential...

Have to go along with the same type of ethics, the rules that members of congress and othe judges do. its time that we undid that leniency for them, because som of them are reading about it i terms of judge harmon, quite outrageous i think it needs to be investigated >> theres new reporting tonight that the conservativ supreme court justice clarence thomas is now acknowledging th hundred and 33,000 dollar real estate deal in which billionaire republican donor nearly a decade ago might have been ...

The espionage act and remains in custody. on sunday, lawmakers expressed grave concern about the circumstances around the leak has reaction from both sides of the aisle. i have a lot of questions about. why were these documents lying around? why did this particular person have access to them? where was the custody of the documents? and who are they? for those are important questions. we can ask in the intelligence committee so that we can have stronger oversight. the access that he was having to...

As Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas is under heightened scrutiny for accepting lavish trips from a GOP billionaire megadonor, he has also been disclosing income from a now-defunct real estate company, The Washington Post reported.

Disclosure forms. they tend to put just minimal amount of information there, and recently the rules were tweaked so that this kind of travel so called personal hospitality would have to be revealed. but the bottom line also is caitlin that they have no formal code of ethics or any way that any member of the public could lodge a complaint and then see their complaint resolved. the attitude of the justices has essentially been trust us. we have you can be confident that we have no conflicts of int...

Kind of first of all, how much money was lavished toward him on these, you know very expensive trips. propublica documented six trips around the world and the kind of access that people got to this very powerful. justice and americas top court document . they say its worth hundreds of thousands of dollars hundreds of thousands of dollars. he is required. there are very loose ethics rules that the supreme court as you know, that has been a big debate in recent years, but he is required to find fi...