Onlangs bekende George Santos schuld in de rechtbank van New York, waar hij aangeklaagd was voor onder meer witwasserij en fraude. Het was een dieptepunt de neergang van de politicus, die in 2022 voor de Republikeinse partij in het Huis van Afgevaardigden werd verkozen. Zijn universitaire graad, zijn Joodse achtergrond en de claim dat zijn moeder slachtoffer was van de aanslagen op 11 september, bleken allemaal verzonnen.
Maar deze leugens waren nog maar het begin, horen we in het vijfde seizoen van Deep Cover, de podcast over mensen die dubbellevens leiden. Presentator Jake Halpern ontrafelt Santos met mensen die hem kennen en journalisten die hem ontmaskerden.
Deep Cover is a show about people who lead double lives. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jake Halpern reveals webs of deception and dark underworlds, through interviews with federal agents and convicted criminals.
Welcome to a new miniseries, Deep Cover: George Santos.
George Santos, the former Republican Congressman from New York, told a lot of stories about his life and his credentials. Many of which, it turns out, were not true. And now–in just a few weeks–Santos is scheduled to face a criminal trial.
Deep Cover Producer Amy Gaines McQuade, who grew up in Santos’ congressional district, speaks with insiders and experts to try to answer the question: Who is George Santos… really? Amy shares her findings with Jake Halpern as she covers Santos’ rise and fall, the double life he led and reports from his upcoming trial in New York.
Season four, The Nameless Man, tells the epic tale of two federal agents who investigate a rumor about a murder that supposedly took place 15 years prior. It is also the story of a family searching for answers about why their brother was killed. These two storylines collide in a courtroom in Philadelphia, where murder, memory, and morality go on trial.
Season three, Never Seen Again, tells the story of two women living on opposite sides of the country, who went missing in the summer of 1999. Seven years later, their stories collided when a small town detective got a tip and became convinced that if he could solve one mystery, he’d solve the other.
Season two, Mob Land, is about a high-rolling lawyer who joins forces with the feds to try to bring down one of the most powerful criminal syndicates in the country.
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Amy Gaines McQuade sits down with GOP donor and former Santos supporter Cathy Soref. Then Amy and Jake Halpern discuss some of the most serious charges that George Santos faced, and pled guilty to in federal court.
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