By now you’ve heard the information that of the 74 people being sworn in as new members of the Home of Representatives this week, at the very least one in all them fictionalized massive elements of his résumé whereas working for workplace and can also be below investigation for allegedly spending marketing campaign funds on himself.
We converse, in fact, of George Santos, who The New York Occasions revealed final month had lied about, amongst different issues, graduating from Baruch School and dealing at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. (An ex-boyfriend moreover informed the Occasions that Santos “by no means ever really went to work,” shocked him with tickets to Hawaii that didn’t exist, and stole his cellphone.) Subsequent questions have been raised about claims Santos has made relating to his mom’s demise, attending the non-public college Horace Mann, being mugged on his option to ship a lease verify, founding an animal-rescue charity, having grandparents who fled the Holocaust, and being Jewish. (“I by no means claimed to be Jewish,” the New York Republican insisted in an interview with the New York Put up. “I stated I used to be ‘Jew-ish’.”) Additionally curious: marketing campaign funds linked to a house the place Santos and his husband are stated to be dwelling, and, per the Occasions, dozens of marketing campaign bills that every one conveniently price $199.99, i.e. precisely one cent beneath the quantity at which federal legislation requires one to maintain receipts.
All in all, not an effective way to kick off a brand new job! And because it seems, Santos—who insists his solely “sin” is “embellishing” his résumé—may have at the very least one different factor distracting him from serving his constituents: the fraud fees he’s about to be hit with in Brazil.
The Occasions stories that prosecutors in Brazil will re-charge him with fraud on the finish of the week, after initially doing so in 2008. On the time, Santos was indicted for stealing a checkbook after which spending the cash below a false identify, against the law which he admitted to in 2009 to the proprietor of a retailer the place he spent the cash and 2010 to the police. Then, he moved to the US and reportedly stopped responding to authorities, who didn’t know his whereabouts. Now they do, and apparently will not be involved in letting bygones be bygones.
Per the Occasions:
