Crime & Safety

George Santos Uses Cameo Bucks To Pay UES Beach Cafe Tab: Report

The former rep — accused of many instances of fraud — apparently makes so much from video site Cameo that he paid for a GOP afterparty.

Page Six reported that the recently expelled congressional rep has found so much success in being an online celebrity, that he paid for dinner with former co-workers, including Rep. Lauren Boebert, at an Upper East Side GOP hangout.
Page Six reported that the recently expelled congressional rep has found so much success in being an online celebrity, that he paid for dinner with former co-workers, including Rep. Lauren Boebert, at an Upper East Side GOP hangout. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, Google Maps)

UPPER EAST SIDE, NY — Selling videos of himself online has netted expelled New York Rep turned on-demand content creator George Santos such a windfall that the accused financial fraud was more than happy to pick up the tab at an Upper East Side restaurant known as a favorite amongst GOP power brokers, according to a report.

On Saturday night, Santos was spotted at a late-night party at the Beach Café on Second Avenue with two of his few remaining friends in congress, Rep. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Rep. Byron Donalds of Florida, reports Page Six.

According to a Page Six Santos source, the group had arrived to Beach Café after the kitchen closed, so Santos ordered from a nearby pizza place.

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"He did pick up the check and bought pizza for everyone in the joint!” the source said to the tabloid gossip page.

Boebert, herself a known fibber for lying about a caught-on-tape vape-and-grope as she sat in the audience of a family-friendly musical production, apparently had a great time in the Big Apple.

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“She was having a blast hanging with her bestie," the source told Page Six, "she and George are like two peas in a pod.”

The two elected officials had arrived at the Upper East Side eatery — a favorite of GOP strategist Roger Stone and once called the "Upper East Side’s Republican Cheers" by New York Magazine — after attending a gala sponsored by the New York Young Republican Club, which featured presidential hopeful Donald Trump.

But Santos, who, until recently, represented parts of Queens and Long Island in congress, skipped the event, he told Page Six, because he was overwhelmed by the demand for his new webcam services.

Using the web-based video creator service Cameo, Santos, who has been indicted on 23 federal counts ranging from credit card fraud to lying to Congress and recently became the sixth member of congress to even be expelled in the nation history, now sells personalized videos for $500 a pop, backed by Cameo's money back guarantee.

“I’d been working,” Santos told Page Six. “I electively chose not to go [to the gala] this year … I need to make a living because I have a family to support and feed... I chose to take [the gala] off so I can go take care of that, and went to Beach after.”

While a Page Six source said the former elected had bought pizza for the whole restaurant after the kitchen closed — and also that the fibbing politico recently claimed to have made over $80,000 in a day from his video service — Santos himself put cold water on rumors of his webcam-induced generosity.

"I want the record to reflect that I did not buy pizza for 35, and that I did not pick up anybody’s bar tab," Santos told Page Six. "I was there with four friends.”

Last week, Santos told CBS New York that in his new career as an internet content creator, "I will have made more money in seven days than I would’ve made in an entire year in Congress," a statement he described as "actually factual."

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