After being ousted from the Home of Representatives final week, ex-congressman George Santos has formally joined Cameo, the platform well-known for customized messages from celebrities and influencers.
Although Santos has not but posted something to his Cameo profile, it advertises a collection of personally-recorded pep talks, “gossip,” roasts, and recommendation messages from Santos himself. These video messages, all promised to be delivered inside 24 hours of an order, have been initially priced at $75, however the fee has since elevated to $200.
A former Santos staffer confirmed to WIRED on Monday that the profile was actual, and it’s now linked on the ex-representative’s private X account. Cameo didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
After profitable his Lengthy Island congressional election final yr, issues mounted for Santos after the North Shore Chief and the New York Occasions reported that he allegedly lied about his funds and far of his private background, like the place he went to school and having labored for Goldman Sachs. Extra absurd lies have been uncovered, involving claims that his mom died on account of 9/11 (she didn’t) and that Santos was the star of Baruch Faculty’s volleyball crew (he wasn’t, and likewise didn’t attend Baruch).
In Might, Santos was charged on a number of federal counts of cash laundering, id theft, and theft of public funds. He’s set to face trial subsequent September.
Regardless of these fees, Santos wasn’t expelled till after the Home Ethics Committee completed its personal investigation in November and claimed that he misused 1000’s of {dollars} in marketing campaign donations. The report mentioned that Santos spent $50,000 in marketing campaign funds to repay private money owed and made different illegal purchases, like subscribing to creators on OnlyFans. Rep. Max Miller (R-OH) has additionally accused Santos of defrauding him and his mom by charging their private bank cards.
Santos isn’t the primary politician to affix the ranks of Chuck Norris, Tay Zonday, and Brian Baumgartner of “The Workplace” fame on Cameo: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin and political guide Roger Stone have their very own profiles, each touting practically 5 star rankings.
The Biden marketing campaign has additionally experimented with Cameo prior to now. In 2020, the marketing campaign partnered with the platform to permit taking part celebrities, like Andy Cohen, Mandy Moore, and Melissa Etheridge, to earmark parts of their earnings as donations, in accordance with The Verge.
Till Santos goes to trial, it’s not possible to know if his donors will ever claw again the cash his marketing campaign allegedly stole from them. However in contrast to Santos’s reported donor fraud, Cameo has a a refund assure for scams.
