Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Resume May Be Largely Fiction.

If true, should resign.

His opponent sux for not uncovering this.


Who Is Rep.-Elect George Santos? His Resume May Be Largely Fiction. (yahoo.com)
Grace Ashford and Michael Gold
Mon, December 19, 2022 at 7:00 AM CST

His campaign biography amplified his storybook journey: He is the son of Brazilian immigrants, and the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a non-incumbent. By his account, he catapulted himself from a New York City public college to become a “seasoned Wall Street financier and investor” with a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties and an animal rescue charity that saved more than 2,500 dogs and cats.

But a New York Times review of public documents and court filings from the United States and Brazil, as well as various attempts to verify claims that Santos, 34, made on the campaign trail, calls into question key parts of the resume that he sold to voters.

Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Santos’ campaign biography, told The New York Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College, which Santos has said he graduated from in 2010, could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduating that year.

There was also little evidence that his animal rescue group, Friends of Pets United, was, as Santos claimed, a tax-exempt organization: The Internal Revenue Service could locate no record of a registered charity with that name.

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new revelations uncovered by the Times — including the omission of key information on Santos’ personal financial disclosures, and criminal charges for check fraud in Brazil — have the potential to create ethical and possibly legal challenges once he takes office.

 

NYT: Crimes everywhere in NY! After election - oh, n/m, no such thing.

 

He’s remorseful. A fraudster, but still a human with the capacity for remorse. This felon is a step above that other felon for that capacity.

George Santos: Former Rep. pleads guilty to federal charges | CNN Politics


Santos will serve a minimum of two years in prison as part of the stipulated agreement and pay restitution of $373,000. His sentencing hearing is set for February 2025.


“I deeply regret my conduct,” Santos said in court Monday. “I accept full responsibility for my actions.”

Speaking to reporters outside the courthouse, the former congressman said he had “allowed ambition to cloud my judgment.”

“Pleading guilty is a step I never imagined I’d take, but it’s the right thing to do,” Santos said. “It is my own recognition of the lies I told myself.”