Expelled New York Congressman George Santos has a new grift through the website Cameo, where customers can pay participants for a personalized video message.
Senator John Fetterman was one of his first customers, asking for Santos to offer New Jersey Senator Bob Menendez “encouragement” as he faces charges for bribery and has refused to resign.
On Monday, Santos launched a profile on Cameo, a website where customers can request holiday messages, a pep talk, roasts, birthday wishes and more from a wide range of public figures.
Santos is selling the personal videos for $200 each, an increase from his earlier $150 price tag.
Fetterman has been calling for Menendez to resign, saying that the charges against Menendez are more serious than what Santos is facing.
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Also on Monday it was reported that four gold bars found in the Clifton, New Jersey, home of Menendez and his wife, Nadine, are stamped with serial numbers that link the bars to a New Jersey businessman accused of bribing Menendez.
The businessman, Fred Daibes, reported to police that he was the victim of an armed robbery in 2013, and he asked police to recover the gold bars stolen from him. Daibes reported that $500,000 in cash and 22 gold bars were stolen, Edgewater, New Jersey, police records show. Police later caught four people with the stolen goods.
“Each gold bar has its own serial number,” Daibes told investigators in a 2013 transcript made by prosecutors and police who recovered — and returned to Daibes — the stolen valuables. “They’re all stamped…you’ll never see two stamped the same way.”
Now four of those gold bars with unique serial numbers have turned up in the Menendez home.
“All of this spells bad news for Sen. Menendez, because the chain of custody — it appears — is going to be really easy to prove up,” NBC legal analyst Danny Cevallos said.