The main impacts locally appear to be flash flooding from three, to perhaps as much as six inches of rain and gusty winds of 30+ mph (higher in the mountains). Still, though, showers and thunderstorms will likely linger into Sunday too with highs both days of the weekend in the lower 70s. The remnants of Ian are forecast to move up into the Carolinas late Friday night and Saturday, and that appears to be the timeframe when the heaviest rain can be expected. With highs in the 60s, Friday is shaping up to be not only wet but breezy and very cool. #NCwx #SCwx #CLTwx /8NiGyL4p7H- Al Conklin WBTV September 27, 2022Īt this point, it looks as if the storm will lift north into Georgia on Friday, and so rain will eventually overspread our area. A Florida landfall near Tampa is forecast for early Thurs, but a slight adjustment to the south is possible. The business was incorporated in Florida shortly after Santos stopped working for Harbor City Capital, the company accused by federal authorities of operating an illegal Ponzi scheme.FIRST ALERT: #Ian now a major #hurricane, but expected to strengthen further after emerging into the Gulf of Mexico later this morning. Santos has described the Devolder Organization as a broker for sales of luxury items like yachts and aircraft. In a House financial disclosure form, Santos reported making $750,000 a year from a family company, the Devolder Organization, but the charges unsealed Wednesday allege that Santos never received that sum, nor the $1 million and $5 million in dividends he listed as coming from the firm. He claimed he fueled his run largely with self-made riches earned from brokering deals on expensive toys for wealthy clients, but the indictment alleges those boasts were also exaggerated. In reality, Santos didn’t work at the big financial firms he said employed him, didn’t go to college and struggled financially before entering politics.
He told people he was a wealthy Wall Street dealmaker with a substantial real estate portfolio who had been a star volleyball player in college, among other things. Santos was elected to Congress last fall after a campaign built partly on falsehoods.
Santos also is accused of lying about his finances on congressional disclosure forms and obtaining unemployment benefits while he was making $120,000 as regional director of an investment firm that the government shut down in 2021 over allegations that it was a Ponzi scheme. Instead, they say, he used the money for personal expenses, including designer clothes and credit card and car payments. To turn on/off yellow and red alert boxes click on 'LAYERS' in the lower right corner and click. Asked if Congress should expel Santos, Biden said, “That’s for Congress to decide.”Īmong the allegations, prosecutors say Santos created a company and then induced supporters to donate to it under the false pretense that the money would be used to support his campaign. Welcome to our interactive radar powered by StormTracker 2 HD - the most powerful radar in Georgia. Mitt Romney, a Utah Republican who confronted Santos on the House floor at President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address in February.Īsked about Santos on Wednesday, Biden said, “I’m not commenting,” adding that anything he said would be construed by some interfering in the investigation. “I think we’re seeing that the wheels of justice grind slow, but they grind fine,” said Sen.
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