George Santos gained the election to symbolize a district in New York this yr. It was a light upset and helped the Republicans regain management of the House of Representatives. But now his entire world is falling aside.
A bombshell report by the New York Times is posing main questions on all the pieces from his work historical past, biography, instructional background, business dealings, sexuality and even his purported Jewish heritage.
The first Brazilian-American was elected to Congress — in addition to the primary brazenly homosexual non-incumbent Republican, Santos had claimed that his mom’s mother and father had been Ukrainian Jews who fled from the Holocaust.
Now it seems his resume is basically fiction.
Santos had claimed to have vaulted from a New York City public school to grow to be a “seasoned Wall Street financier and investor”.
He listed Citigroup and Goldman Sachs on his resume, however when contacted by The Times, the Wall Street companies mentioned they’d no report of him working there.
Baruch College, the place he supposedly graduated in 2010, additionally had no report of anybody together with his identify and date of start graduating that yr.
He additionally claimed to have based animal rescue group, Friends of Pets United, even claiming it as a tax exemption, however the Internal Revenue Service was not capable of find information of the registered charity.
Santos additionally claimed to have an actual property portfolio spanning 13 properties. However he has not disclosed — and The Times was unable to search out — any of his properties.
Santos could have run into authorized issues in his mother and father’ native nation, with Brazilian court docket information reportedly exhibiting that he stole the checkbook of a person his mom was caring for and used it to make fraudulent purchases, together with a pair of footwear.
He may additionally have lied about his Jewish heritage, based on The Forward, a Jewish publication primarily based in New York City.
The outlet claimed Santos lied about grandparents fleeing anti-Jewish persecution throughout WWII.
Openly homosexual, Santos lives together with his pharmacist husband and their 4 canine on Long Island.
And the Daily Beast stories Santos was beforehand married — to a lady — which ended simply 12 days earlier than he established his first congressional marketing campaign in 2019.
The Daily Mail recognized the girl as Uadla Vieira, a local of Brazil.
Santos responded to the bombshell allegations with a quick assertion on Twitter, promising to inform his story…. subsequent week.
“To the people of [New York’s 3rd congressional district] I have my story to tell and it will be told next week,” he wrote.
“I want to assure everyone that I will address your questions and that I remain committed to deliver the results I campaigned on; Public safety, Inflation, Education & more. Happy Holidays to all!”
His pledge to reply to the damaging allegations “next week” was broadly mocked on social media.
