After being ousted from the House of Representatives final week, ex-congressperson George Santos has formally joined Cameo, the platform well-known for customized messages from celebrities and influencers.

Though Santos has not but posted something to his Cameo profile, it advertises a number of personally recorded pep talks, “gossip,” roasts, and recommendation messages from Santos himself. These video messages, all promised to be delivered inside 24 hours of an order, had been initially priced at $75, however the associated fee has since elevated to $200.

A former Santos staffer confirmed to WIRED at this time that the profile was actual, and it’s now linked on the previous consultant’s private X account. Cameo didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.

After successful his Long Island congressional election final 12 months, Santos encountered issues when the North Shore Leader and The New York Times reported that he had allegedly lied about his funds and far of his private background, together with the place he went to varsity and the declare that he had labored for Goldman Sachs. More absurd lies were uncovered, involving claims that his mom had died on account of 9/11 (she didn’t) and that Santos was the star of Baruch College’s volleyball group (he wasn’t, and he didn’t attend Baruch).

In May, Santos was charged on a number of federal counts of cash laundering, identification theft, and theft of public funds. He is about to face trial subsequent September.

Despite these costs, Santos wasn’t expelled till after the House Ethics Committee completed its personal investigation in November and claimed that he had misused thousands of dollars in campaign donations. The report stated that Santos spent $50,000 in marketing campaign funds to repay private money owed and made different illegal purchases, like subscribing to creators on OnlyFans. Representative Max Miller (R-Ohio) has additionally accused Santos of defrauding him and his mother by charging their private bank cards.

Santos isn’t the primary politician to affix the ranks of Chuck Norris, Tay Zonday, and Brian Baumgartner (of The Office fame) on Cameo: Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and political marketing consultant Roger Stone have their very own profiles, each touting practically 5 star scores.

The Biden marketing campaign additionally experimented with Cameo previously. In 2020, the marketing campaign partnered with the platform to permit taking part celebrities, like Andy Cohen, Mandy Moore, and Melissa Etheridge, to earmark parts of their earnings as donations, according to The Verge.

Until Santos goes to trial, it’s not possible to know whether or not his donors will ever claw again the cash allegedly stolen from them. But not like Santos’ reported donor fraud, Cameo has a money-back assure for scams.