His dog was dying, and he needed help. He says he ended up swindled by George Santos
About two weeks ago, Rich Osthoff was watching the news when suddenly he saw a familiar face.
The man had dark hair and glasses, and he was walking outside the U.S. Capitol, surrounded by reporters.
"I didn't recognize him right away, but I knew he'd crossed me in the past and he had done something awful to me," Osthoff, a Navy veteran from New Jersey, told NPR.
Then suddenly a reporter on the screen yelled something along the lines of "What's your name today?" Osthoff said. And that's when it struck him.
The man on television was someone he'd been introduced to in 2016 as Anthony Devolder — a man Osthoff says tookthousands of dollars of money from a GoFundMe account that was meant for a lifesaving surgery for his beloved service dog. A man now known as the newly elected Republican Rep. George Santos of New York, who has been caught in a slew of lies and deceptions about his résumé,
