Samuel Miele, a campaign staffer for New York’s other Republican political fraudster George Santos, allegedly impersonated House Speaker pro tem Kevin McCarthy’s chief of staff while talking and emailing potential donors to Santos’s campaign, the Daily Beast reports. He’s now been indicted by the US Department of Justice on four counts of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft.
Miele reportedly pretended to be McCarthy staffer Dan Meyer when communicating with around twelve donors during the latter half of 2021 as he tried to raise funds for the disgraced impersonator. The charging documents note that Miele kept 15% of any money raised, making the use of another’s identity a theft scheme. In a letter he sent to Santos last September, Miele admitted the fraud, asserting there is “high risk, high reward in everything I do.”