‘I felt like we were in “Goodfellas’’’: How George Santos wooed investors for alleged Ponzi scheme

George Santos graciously welcomed his three guests to Il Bacco Ristorante in Queens. Collectively, the accounts gathered by The Post offer a detailed picture of Santos’s efforts to recruit investors for Harbor City. Conard, a 60-year-old real estate agent from Minnesota, said he lost $50,000 in Harbor City. © David Becker for The Washington Post Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) after speaking at the Republican Jewish Coalition meeting in Las Vegas on Nov. 19. No one named George Santos or George Devolder “has any relationship with the pension fund’s CEO,” it said in a statement to The Post.