The 13-count indictment against U.S. Representative George Santos (RN.Y.) was unsealed Wednesday, revealing a wide array of allegations against the freshman congressman.

The 22-page indictment, on which Santos will be filed Wednesday afternoon at Central Islip on Long Island, outlines allegations of serious crimes,

law violated

including violations of campaign finance laws as well as wire fraud, fraudulent claims for unemployment benefits and others

illegal acts

say federal prosecutors.

Luxury designer clothes

Santos is accused of collaborating in October 2022 with an unnamed person referred to as “Person #1” to solicit campaign contributions that he then used for his own personal expenses, prosecutors said.

Person #1 asked for the contributions and told potential donors that they were giving money to an independent political action committee or social welfare organization, allowing them to contribute more than the $2,900 limit per candidate

Commission

the prosecutors said.

At least two donors gave $25,000 each after being told the money would be spent on campaign advertising, prosecutors said. Instead, Santos moved the money into accounts he controlled, including a personal bank account, according to the indictment.

He then used that money to purchase “luxury designer clothes,” prosecutors said, without specifying which brand Santos was buying.

Santos also used the $50,000 to pay credit cards and car payments, and to withdraw cash, prosecutors said.

“These contributions … have not been spent on television advertising or other independent expenses in support of [Santos’] candidacy for the House,” the grand jury said in the indictment.

Unemployment scheme

Prosecutors allege that almost as soon as the pandemic hit and hordes of New Yorkers lost jobs and filed for unemployment benefits, Santos

fraudulent

stated as

being unemployed without a job is okay

to receive thousands of dollars in benefits.

In fact, prosecutors allege, Santos worked as a regional director for an investment company that paid him an annual salary of $120,000 for nearly the entire period he claimed to be unemployed.

Santos is accused of misusing the country’s pandemic relief program, known as the CARES Act

on March 27, 2020, that

he was unemployed on March 27, 2020,

. he kept it

until April 2021, and pick up

to withdraw

nearly $25,000 in federal unemployment benefits, prosecutors said.

“Based on a false application and false weekly certifications to the [New York State Department of Labor], [Santos] received approximately $24,744 in unemployment benefits,” the suit alleges.

False House Disclosure Forms

Santos is

What

also accused of lying about his 2020 House disclosure reports

when he first ran for Congress,

and again in 2022.

Prosecutors say Santos claimed in the 2020 disclosure report that he made $55,000 from

what is in the indictment

“Company #2”, when in fact he had

only

only received $27,555 along with $25,403 he

earned working for an income received from the

investment company

he worked for

which he did not report.

In 2022, Santos filed another false return, claiming salaries and dividends he had not paid, prosecutors said.