Current Events > Long Island republican seems to have made up his resume that got him elected

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https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html

George Santos, whose election to Congress on Long Island last month helped Republicans clinch a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, built his candidacy on the notion that he was the full embodiment of the American dream and was running to safeguard it for others.

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 Mr. Santos, 34, made on the campaign trail, calls into question key parts of the rsum that he sold to voters.

Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Mr. Santoss campaign biography, told The Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College, which Mr. 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 Mr. Santos claimed, a tax-exempt organization: The Internal Revenue Service could locate no record of a registered charity with that name.

His financial disclosure forms suggest a life of some wealth. He lent his campaign more than $700,000 during the midterm election, has donated thousands of dollars to other candidates in the last two years and reported a $750,000 salary and over $1 million in dividends from his company, the Devolder Organization.

Yet the firm, which has no public website or LinkedIn page, is something of a mystery. On a campaign website, Mr. Santos once described Devolder as his familys firm that managed $80 million in assets. On his congressional financial disclosure, he described it as a capital introduction consulting company, a type of boutique firm that serves as a liaison between investment funds and deep-pocketed investors. But Mr. Santoss disclosures did not reveal any clients, an omission three election law experts said could be problematic if such clients exist.

And while Mr. Santos has described a family fortune in real estate, he has not disclosed, nor could The Times find, records of his properties.

Big failure of opposition research that this stuff is coming out now, rather than before the election.

Would it have mattered really? Not if fact checking changes republican voters minds. I doubt it would get more people to vote democrat.

If he ran on lies and fraud, he should be removed from office.

Once again, Republicans cheat to screw over Democrats.....

Trump lied about pretty much everything and became President.

Haejin posted...

Trump lied about pretty much everything and became President.

And he should have been removed too. Anyone who runs on lies should be fired

I was listening to the radio and if I'm not mistaken, another House Republican ran for office in Brooklyn(or Bronx?) and won, but he actually lives in Manhattan.

This disqualifies him because you have to live 1 year at least in the borough before running for a district in that borough.

Zikten posted...

If he ran on lies and fraud, he should be removed from office.

HAHA I don't think you know how politics works

Nothing happens.

Swagger_Dagger posted...

HAHA I don't think you know how politics works

I know what politicians do. But this goes beyond that. This guy lied about his past. Things he did and schools he went to. Stuff that never happened. It's worse than a typical political lie. One can call it fraud which is illegal

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