George Santos was revealed to be a pathological liar after he gained the 2022 midterm elections to symbolize New York’s third congressional district.
His lies and fabricated tales span virtually each matter from his schooling background to his household’s heritage.
Santos flipped the New York seat purple and is on observe to make historical past by being sworn in as the primary brazenly homosexual Republican member of Congress.
The New York Occasions initially broke the story of Santos’ resume gildings on December 19. They reported that there was no proof Santos had ever labored at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs and didn’t attend Baruch School.
Now he’s beneath investigation by each federal and native New York prosecutors, whereas extra accusations about his historical past floor.
DailyMail.com breaks down the lies Santos has been caught in – thus far:
Santos says he’s of Ukrainian Jewish descent
In a single interview, Santos stated his household identify on his mom’s facet was the traditionally Jewish identify ‘Zabrovsky.’
‘My grandfather was born in Kyiv and left within the late 20s and migrated to Belgium the place he met my grandmother after which began a household,’ Santos advised Fox Digital in February. ‘We do not carry the Ukrainian final identify, for lots of people who’re descendants of World Struggle II refuges or survivors of the Holocaust, numerous names or paperwork had been modified within the identify of survival.’
George Santos was revealed to be a pathological liar after he gained the 2022 midterm elections to symbolize New York’s third congressional district. His lies and fabricated tales span virtually each matter from his schooling background to his household’s heritage
Studies point out that there have been no profitable efforts to search out any Jewish or Ukrainian heritage in his household tree based on the Ahead.
Santos stated in a separate interview in 2020 that he was raised by ‘a white Caucasian mom, an immigrant from Belgium. However Santos’ mom, Fatima Devolder, was born in Brazil, based on her obituary in 2016.
Moreover, newly resurfaced tweets present that Santos, who’s Brazilian-American, claimed in July 2020 on Twitter that he was biracial, that means ‘Caucasian and black.’
Santos’ claims his mom died within the 9/11 terrorist assaults
Santos wrote in a July 2021 tweet that he was ‘blocking’ an account with the deal with ‘9/11 was a victimless crime’ as a result of his mom was a sufferer of the terrorist assault.
He wrote, ‘9/11 claimed my mom’s life… so I am blocking so I do not ever should learn this once more,’ after the consumer responded to a tweet from Santos concerning immigration.
An obituary for Santos’ mom, nonetheless, states that she died in December 2016, which is greater than 15 years after the assault came about.
He additionally confirmed the true date in a December 2021 tweet the place he stated: ‘December twenty third this yr marks 5 years I misplaced my greatest pal and mentor. Mother you’ll reside endlessly in my coronary heart.’
Santos’ marketing campaign web site stated his mom ‘survived the tragic occasions of September eleventh’ within the South Tower workplace of the World Commerce Middle and died ‘just a few years later when she misplaced her battle to most cancers.’
A New York Occasions report had described Santos’ mom as a ‘home employee’ or ‘housekeeper.’
His marketing campaign web site described his mom as a high govt.
‘George’s work ethic comes from his mom, who got here from nothing, however labored her approach as much as be the primary feminine govt at a significant monetary establishment,’ the web site states.
The congressman-elect stated in a 2021 tweet that, ‘9/11 claimed my mom’s life,’ nonetheless Fatima Devolder died in 2016 of most cancers and it is unclear if it was 9/11-related. It is also unclear if she was an govt or a housekeeper
Santos stated he attended a prestigious New York prep faculty
The Consultant-elect stated that he attended Horace Mann College – an elite personal faculty within the Brox the place tuition prices $59,800 per yr.
‘He started Horace Mann preparatory faculty within the Bronx, nonetheless, didn’t graduate from Horace Mann as a consequence of monetary difficulties for his household,’ learn a 2019 biography throughout his first marketing campaign for Congress, which Santos misplaced.
‘He obtained a GED throughout his senior yr,’ it added.
The varsity stated, based on CNN, that he by no means attended.
‘We have searched the information and there’s no proof that George Santos (or any alias) attended Horace Mann,’ spokesperson for Horace Mann Prep College Ed Adler stated.
CNN reported late Wednesday that the New York Republican by no means attended Horace Mann College (pictured), an elite personal faculty within the Bronx
Former name heart employee Santos’ resume contains time at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup
Santos stated that he labored on Wall Avenue for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup however now says he used a ‘poor alternative of phrases’ when describing his relationship with the 2 companies.
The incoming congressman labored at a DISH Satellite tv for pc name heart from October 2011 to July 2012.
He additionally labored for LinkBridge, the place, in an try to justify his lie, Santos stated that he did enterprise with Goldman and Citi and made ‘capital introductions’ between purchasers and traders.
Santos stated he ‘by no means labored immediately’ for both agency.
George Santos (proper) poses along with his then fiancé at Mar-a-Lago on New Yr’s Eve
Santos’ declare his family-owned actual property portfolio of 10+ properties
Santos posted on Twitter in February 2021 that ‘my household and I’ had not acquired any lease on 13 properties allegedly owned by him.
A assessment property taxes owed or paid for in New York state reveals no proof of possession.
He claimed to have a mind tumor
On March 30, 2020, in the beginning of the U.S. coronavirus pandemic, an interview with Santos was revealed on YouTube titled ‘George Santos: A Corona Story.’ The video has since been set to non-public
Within the video, based on Newsweek, Santos tells two males, one sporting a ‘Weapons and Freedom’ hat and the opposite seated by a ‘Do not Tread on Me’ flag, that he had ‘battled a mind tumor.’
Discussing his well being Santos stated: ‘I’ve an immunodeficiency and I even have acute continual bronchitis. I additionally battled a mind tumor a few years in the past and I had radiation finished which actually lowers your immunity generally.’
Claimed that he misplaced 4 workers in Pulse nightclub bloodbath
Throughout an interview with WNYC, Santos alleged that 4 ‘those who work for me’ had been killed through the June 2016 mass taking pictures on the Pulse nightclub in Orlando, which left 49 useless.
No connection has but to be set up between any of the victims and Santos.
Stated he was the founding father of a charitable basis
Santos stated he based a tax-exempt animal rights group, Mates of Pets United, which rescued greater than 2,500 cats and canines.
However no information referring to the group’s charitable standing could possibly be discovered by the IRS, nor may both the New York or New Jersey legal professional common’s places of work uncover documentation confirming Mates of Pets United had been registered as a charity.
Public information, nonetheless, present that Santos was beforehand married to a girl named Uadla Vieira, a local of Brazil, till 2019
In 2016, he claimed $2,250 was stolen in a mugging on his option to pay lease – however cops haven’t any report of the incident
Santos claimed that in 2016 he was mugged on his option to pay his residence lease in Queens.
In a sworn assertion battling eviction, he stated $2,250 was stolen. In accordance with Gothamist, he wrote: ‘I’ve been mugged at approx 1:15 p.m. on 01/15/16 on Queens Boro Plaza, as I used to be on my option to pay the lawyer.’
‘I’ve gone to the checks money location situated on thirty first and twenty third Ave in Astoria to request a cease fee.
‘I’m unable to supply a police report right this moment as I used to be requested to return Tuesday to select it up.’
The NYPD, nonetheless, haven’t any report of the incident, the outlet reported.
Santos ultimately moved out of the residence because of the case and paid the remainder of what he owed in lease.
— by Katelyn Caralle
