U.S. Navy veteran Richard Osthoff said in a CNN interview Wednesday that he was “sick” when he realized only “a week ago” that serial liar Rep. George Santos (R-NY) was the man who he had known as “Anthony Devolder” — the same person who he alleged stole $3,000 intended to pay for surgery on Osthoff’s service dog.
Osthoff, who appeared alongside New Jersey Veterans Network President Michael Boll, brought to the interview the cremated remains of his dog, Sapphire, who died in 2017. “I had to bring her,” he said, touching a wooden urn. “That’s my baby, right there. It’s all I have left of her.”
Osthoff recalled how he was homeless around the time he was connected to the future congressman. “One of the vet techs in the place said, ‘I know this guy. He runs a charity and he saves a lot of animals,’” Osthoff said, adding that a GoFundMe was up shortly thereafter.
After some apparent hang-ups along the way, Boll said he spoke with Santos, who “was not listening to what I was saying,” as he put it.
“I was really upset because this is Rich’s lifeline. I work with veterans every day, and dogs save people’s lives,” Boll explained. “And he needed this dog every day to be in his life. And I felt horrible to tell him that I failed him because of feeling that Mr. Devolder at the time was going to do the right thing and he did not.”
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