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Who really is incoming Congressman George Santos (R-NY), anyway? His biography appears to be fictional. Now charged by feds.
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Question is, who gave him the 700k to loan to his election?
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Scandal-struck George Santos just revived the firm that netted him mystery millions
After the New York Times exposé, the incoming Republican congressman made a curious move.
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On Monday, the New York Times published an explosive story revealing that George Santos, a New York Republican elected last month to the House of Representatives, had made what appeared to be brazenly false statements about his background, including assorted claims about his business career. He had boasted of being an accomplished investor and financier who had worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Yet each firm noted it had no record of his employment there. He had said he graduated from Baruch College. The school said he had not. His personal finances seemed odd as well, and he had worked at a Florida company called Harbor City Capital that was accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2021 of running a $17 million Ponzi scheme. Subsequently, he supposedly made at least $3.5 million from a mysterious company called Devolder Organization LLC that he started, that had no public profile, and that was dissolved soon after it was created. This marked a dramatic shift from his first run for Congress in 2020, when he reported earning $55,000 per year.
The day after the Times story appeared, Santos took a curious step: He revived that mystery firm that he had claimed as the source of millions of dollars of income, and he listed as its address a Florida property associated with a former top official of the company that allegedly mounted that Ponzi scheme. Devolder’s resurrection was first reported by Talking Points Memo. The story of this firm is a key component of the Santos scandal.
Yay, another
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And do Republican candidates really need to impress their voters? Colorado elected Lauren Boebert mere weeks after she earned her GED, and her profession was being part owner of a bar called Shooters Grill in the cozy little hamlet of Rifle, Colorado.
Most Congressional candidates could easily surpass that very, very, very low bar without fudging their resumes.
Most Congressional candidates could easily surpass that very, very, very low bar without fudging their resumes.
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‘Openly Gay’ Rep.-Elect George Santos Didn’t Disclose Divorce With Woman
(not that there's anything wrong with that)
There also appears to be no record of his marriage to his husband.
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It is okay (I'm sure is what I will hear) because Santos promises to tell his story next week. I'm not sure why he needs a week before he's ready to answer questions about his past, unless that is how long it will take him to create a new fake resume.
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Apparently a local right-leaning newspaper, The North Shore Leader, was all over this story months ago. They endorsed Santos' opponent even thought the editors 'wanted to endorse a Republican'.
The Leader Told You So: US Rep-Elect George Santos is a Fraud - and Wanted Criminal
In a story first broken by the North Shore Leader over four months ago, the national media has suddenly discovered that US Congressman-elect George Santos (R-Queens / Nassau) - dubbed "George Scam-tos" by many local political observers - is a deepfake liar who has falsified his background, assets, and contacts. He is fact a wanted petty criminal in Brazil.
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lol. Has a congressman ever been extradited before? Who says Republicans aren’t progressive?
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George Santos Admits to Lying About College and Work History
The congressman-elect confirmed The New York Times’s findings that he had not graduated from college or worked at two major Wall Street firms, as he had claimed.
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Rep.-elect George Santos acknowledges ‘résumé embellishment’ but answers little on finances
In an interview with New York’s WABC radio, Santos said, “If I disappointed anyone by my résumé embellishment, I’m sorry,” and he vowed that “I will be sworn in. I will take office.”
Santos also gave an interview on Monday to the New York Post, which ran a headline calling him a “liar” and quoted him as saying “I am not a criminal.” He said in that interview that, contrary to his campaign biography, “I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning.”
“I’m really sort of torn,” Zeidman [GOP donor and member of the Republican Jewish Coalition’s board of directors, ... and former chairman of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council] said, “because you don’t want to give up a Republican seat in Congress, and I’m not sure we could ever win it back again. But I certainly think that the leadership of the Republican Party has an obligation not to seat someone that is obviously totally phony.”
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“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told the Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
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...so nearly his entire resume is fake. How will the GOP House leadership respond?
"Ending a weeklong silence, Representative-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to a sizable list of falsehoods about his professional background, educational history and property ownership. But he said he was determined to take the oath of office on Jan. 3 and join the House majority.
Mr. Santos, a New York Republican who was elected in November to represent parts of northern Long Island and northeast Queens, confirmed some of the key findings of a New York Times investigation into his background, but sought to minimize the misrepresentations.
“My sins here are embellishing my résumé,” Mr. Santos told The New York Post in one of several interviews he gave on Monday.
Mr. Santos admitted to lying about graduating from college and making misleading claims that he worked for Citigroup or Goldman Sachs. He once said he had a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties; on Monday, he admitted he was not a landlord."
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"Ending a weeklong silence, Representative-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to a sizable list of falsehoods about his professional background, educational history and property ownership. But he said he was determined to take the oath of office on Jan. 3 and join the House majority.
Mr. Santos, a New York Republican who was elected in November to represent parts of northern Long Island and northeast Queens, confirmed some of the key findings of a New York Times investigation into his background, but sought to minimize the misrepresentations.
“My sins here are embellishing my résumé,” Mr. Santos told The New York Post in one of several interviews he gave on Monday.
Mr. Santos admitted to lying about graduating from college and making misleading claims that he worked for Citigroup or Goldman Sachs. He once said he had a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties; on Monday, he admitted he was not a landlord."
George Santos Admits to Lying About College and Work History
The congressman-elect confirmed The New York Times’s findings that he had not graduated from college or worked at two major Wall Street firms, as he had claimed.
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