George Santos again denied any involvement in a credit card skimming scam a convicted criminal claim he led, NBC News reports, with Santos declaring, “I’m innocent. I never did anything of criminal activity and I’m no mastermind of anything.”
Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha, convicted of skimming card numbers, said in a sworn affidavit sent to the FBI and Secret Service that he would install the skimming devices and then send the stolen data back to Santos, who was living in Brazil at the time. Trelha says Santos was the one who taught him how to operate the devices.