Rep. George Santos orchestrated a 2017 credit card skimming operation in Seattle, a former roommate of the scandal-plagued congressman said in a sworn declaration submitted to federal authorities Wednesday.
he was “an informant” in the fraud case. Trelha insists he was its mastermind.
Santos kept a warehouse on Kirkman Road in Orlando to store the skimming equipment, according to the declaration. Trelha then flew out to Seattle where he was caught on a security camera removing a skimming device from a Chase ATM on Pike Street, according to law enforcement records. He was arrested on April 27.it’s not unusual for credit card thieves to go far from home to nab numbers so there’s less chance of the stolen numbers being traced back to the perpetrators. That spokesperson, Emily Langlie, said she didn’t have any information about Santos’ involvement in the Trelha case.
“We used a computer to be able to download the information on the pieces. We also used an external hard drive to save the filming, because the skimmer took the information from the card, and the camera took the password,” he wrote.Trelha said Santos visited him in jail in Seattle, but told him not to implicate him in the scheme.
“Santos did not help me to get out of jail. He also stole the money that I had collected for my bail,” Trelha told federal investigators in the declaration. Trelha told the federal authorities in the declaration that he had witnesses to support his statements. Oliveira Santos declined to discuss the matter with POLITICO.
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