George Santos

Congressman-elect George Santos stands at a podium labeled Republican Jewish Coalition in a dark. Congressman-elect George Santos said while campaigning that he ...

During his most recent congressional campaign, Mr. Contrary to records unearthed by The Times, Mr. Santos cast himself and his family as the owners of 13 properties. Rather, those four individuals were in the process of being hired, he said. Santos said that those “four employees” did not actually work for his Florida company. Santos’s maternal grandparents appear to have been born in Brazil ](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/nyregion/george-santos-jewish-descent-fraud.html)before World War II. Both firms told The Times that they had no record of Mr. Santos has said he graduated from Baruch College in Manhattan with a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance. When he enters Congress in 2023, several important unanswered questions will still hang over him. Santos, 34, a Republican, in November. Other discrepancies in his biography remain a mystery. Santos admitted that the information in his résumé about where he worked and went to school were not true.

Representative-elect George Santos (R-NY), mired in allegations of widespread lying about all facets of his background after a New York Times investigation, ...

[The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/12/27/george-santos-resignation-pressure/). Members can be expelled after taking office for any misconduct if two-thirds of the House supports expulsion. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.) [tweeted](https://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/1607542994034642944?s=20&t=c2zfSP1S6JA4jaYuYzUMMg) out saying “GOP Congressman-elect George Santos, who has now admitted his whopping lies, should resign,” and called upon GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy, who has not responded to the allegations, to call for Santos’ expulsion from the House. Santos' victory helped Republicans regain control of the House by a narrow 222 to 213 margin. Santos led with 54% while Zimmerman trailed behind with only 46% of the votes. The House can only prevent candidates from holding office if they have been lying about their state residency, their age and citizenship, according to a [Supreme Court case](https://www.lexisnexis.com/community/casebrief/p/casebrief-powell-v-mccormack). Also under scrutiny is the source of his finances. Other notable critics include House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and incoming House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.). In the same video interview with City & State, Santos asserted his consulting agency, Devolder Organization, started after he left his job at Harbor City Capital — alleged by the Securities and Exchange Commission as a [video interview](https://www.cityandstateny.com/stream/2022/12/exclusive-video-george-santos-camera-explanation-swirling-controversies/381290/) he had long heard the story of his grandparents being Holocaust refugees, though says he never claimed to be Jewish (he identifies as Catholic), saying his maternal grandparents Jewish heritage has made him “Jew-ish.” [The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html) reported finding court records in Brazil showing that, when he was 19, he was confessed to police that he wrote checks (including one for a pair of shoes) with a stolen checkbook, though Santos denies it, telling the NY Post “I am not a criminal here — not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world.” [The Daily Beast ](https://www.thedailybeast.com/openly-gay-rep-elect-george-santos-didnt-disclose-divorce-with-woman)reported that Santos, the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat, never disclosed a past marriage with a woman during his campaign, though he now tells the NY Post he is a happily married gay man and comfortable with his sexuality.

Santos, who was elected to represent New York's 3rd Congressional District, admitted to “embellishing” his resume in multiple interviews Monday.

“I’m very much gay,” he told the New York Post. Santos is also facing scrutiny for his claim that his mother was a survivor of the Sept. The report found that Santos was issued a warrant of eviction in 2017 due to unpaid rent for his apartment in the Queens borough of New York City, but that financial disclosure forms also show that he lent his campaign more than $700,000 during the midterm election. [he was married to a woman](https://www.thedailybeast.com/openly-gay-rep-elect-george-santos-didnt-disclose-divorce-with-woman). A previous version of his campaign website stated that she was a financial executive working in the World Trade Center’s South Tower during the time of the attacks. Ritchie Torres, D-N.Y., called for the House Ethics Committee to investigate Santos due to a portion of The New York Times report about his finances. “The damage that his lies have caused to many people, especially those who have been impacted by the Holocaust, are profound,” Cairo said. “It’s the vulnerability of being human. [in previous interviews](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vegaU2EcJR4) that his family converted to Catholicism when they moved to Brazil and that he is not Jewish. “He has begun his tenure in Congress on a very wrong note. Santos is also facing scrutiny for his previous claims that he has Jewish heritage. “I own up to that …

George Santos claimed to be a "proud American Jew" in a document submitted to multiple Jewish organizations, despite not being Jewish.

In public comments and to us personally, he previously claimed to be Jewish. [Kevin McCarthy boasted](https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1607633211676577792) that Santos was now a part of the largest Republican Jewish caucus in the last two decades. The aide did not specify if exaggerations about Santos’ religious heritage were a part of the punchline. In November, he made an appearance at the Republican Jewish Coalition’s (RJC) annual summit, where House Speaker hopeful Members of Santos’ family were not listed in refugee records from the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Center. Santos, who is Brazilian-American, had previously claimed to have a Catholic father and Jewish mother.

U.S. Representative-elect George Santos, a New York Republican who this week acknowledged lying about his education and employment history while running for ...

"Face the voters with your real past & answer questions about your criminal history," the Democrat wrote on Twitter. I'm sorry," Santos told the Post on Monday. "I didn't graduate from any institution of higher learning," the newspaper quoted him as saying. Santos denied New York Times reporting that he had been charged with fraud in Brazil after being caught writing checks with a stolen checkbook. "He deceived us and misrepresented his heritage," said Matt Brooks, the coalition's chief executive. "I am Catholic.

GOP Rep.-elect George Santos is facing growing condemnation from House Democrats, some of whom have called on him to step aside, and even from some corners ...

In public comments and to us personally he previously claimed to be Jewish. Tulsi Gabbard, who was guest hosting Fox’s “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” Santos said, “My heritage is Jewish. “He deceived us and misrepresented his heritage. “While Santos has taken a required first step by ‘coming clean’ with respect to his education, work experience and other issues, he must continue to pursue a path of honesty.” Santos, and I expected more than just a blanket apology,” Cairo said in a statement. The House has the power under the Constitution to expel any member with a two-thirds vote, but doing so is extremely rare and only five lawmakers have been expelled in US history. “I am Catholic. McCarthy has also declined to weigh in when members are under investigation, arguing he will let the probes play out before determining how to proceed. I was raised a practicing Catholic.” “I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told the New York Post on Monday. House GOP leadership, however, remains silent over [revelations](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/19/politics/george-santos-resume/index.html) that the New York Republican lied about parts of his biography. “I am deeply disappointed in Mr.

On Tuesday, congressman-elect George Santos addressed his résumé controversy during an appearance on Tucker Carlson Tonight with Tulsi Gabbard.

He also admitted that he “never worked directly” for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, despite his previous assertions. His admission came after the New York Times published a report that raised discrepancies in his background. It was stated poorly,” Santos said, and stated that he “never claimed to be Jewish.” “I own up to that … Even in the campaign, I say ‘Guys, I’m Jew-ish.'” I’m having to admit this on national television for the whole country to see.”

Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (D-Hawaii) ripped into Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) over his embellishments and fabrications about his background, ...

It’s hard to imagine how they could possibly trust your explanations when you’re not really even willing to admit the depth of your deception to them,” Gabbard said. Anthony Weiner (D-N.Y.), who resigned in 2011 after the revelation of sexually explicit messages he sent to a minor, on WABC radio this week. And the people who are now, you’re asking to trust you to go and be their voice for them, their families and their kids in Washington?” Gabbard is the second former Democratic member of Congress to interview Santos this week. “Tulsi, I can say the same thing about the Democrats,” Santos responded. “Not being raised a practicing Jew, I’ve always joked with friends and circles, even within the campaign, I’d say, guys, I’m ‘Jew-ish.’ Remember, I was raised Catholic.” I was raised as a practicing Catholic,” Santos said. I’m not a persona. I’m not a facade. He’s the president of the United States. Joe Biden has been lying to the American people for 40 years. “Do you have no shame?

Democratic complacency, Republican extremism, and media decline contributed to the new congressman's victory.

But now, barring a surprise Santos resignation or action following investigations by the House Ethics Committee and the Department of Justice, Long Islanders—and the nation—are stuck with a congressman who is a figment of his own imagination. But they don’t have the resources to cover everything—not even everything in their political backyard—and they appear to have written off NY-3 as low priority given the district’s Democratic tilt. The media should have as well. That’s what I mean by Democratic complacency: the complacency of the establishment. The media’s failure to dig into Santos shows the predicament that local newsrooms face in 2022. The Republicans should have vetted Santos. But by and large, the district is as normal as Santos is extreme. Moderate Democratic candidates have fared well in the region since 2000. Voter disconnection must be part of the explanation for why Santos won. The district is On Monday, he [ admitted](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/nyregion/george-santos-interview.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare) that he’d engaged in serial falsehoods, but said that he intended to join the House majority anyway. Their disparate political attitudes reflect the ideological diversity of the area, which swings gently from red to blue and back again.

Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) is starting to emerge from days of silence following explosive reports in The New York Times and elsewhere detailing key ...

Santos told the New York Post this week that his grandmother told stories about being Jewish before converting to Catholicism. [called for](https://twitter.com/nicklalota/status/1607832712836009989) “a full investigation by the House Ethics Committee and, if necessary, law enforcement” into Santos. A New York Times review found that none of the 49 victims appeared to have worked for any of the firms to which Santos was connected. It also said that one person who was supposed to benefit from a fundraiser held by Friends of Pets United never received those funds and that Santos gave excuses for not sending the money. Santos” and expects “more than just a blanket apology.” “We did have people who were being hired to work for the company at the time. I’m not a wanted criminal in any jurisdiction,” Santos told City & State in But just two years later, Santos reported bringing in a $750,000 salary from his company, the Devolder Organization. Santos was 19 at the time. His 2020 financial disclosure said that he made $55,000 from LinkBridge Investors during the previous year and listed no other assets, income or liabilities. In total, Santos brought in nearly $3 million from all sources during his 2022 campaign. He worked for a company called LinkBridge, he said, which did business with both other companies and helped make “capital introductions” through “limited partnerships.”

George Santos, aherutse gutorwa , avuga ko yabeshe ku mashure yize n'akazi yakoze.

Ariko Santos yabwiye New York Post ko “atigeze akorera mu buryo butaziguye” kompanyi n’imwe muri izo, yemera ko kwabaye “ugihitamwo nabi amajambo’’[yo gukoresha]. Ico gihe umushingwamanza wa Santos yariyamirije yivuye inyuma ivyari vyanditswe ko yabeshe ko yize kaminuza n’aho yavuga ko yakoze, uwo mushingwamanza avuga ko ari “ukumbika iceyi” ne no “kwifatira mu gahanga”. US-Republicans: Uwatowe mu bushingameteka George Santos yemeye ko yabeshe kuri CV yiwe

Santos, who was elected in November to represent New York's 3rd congressional district, had claimed to earn degrees from Baruch College and New York University ...

[resigned from his post as CEO of Yahoo](https://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/19/business/the-undoing-of-scott-thompson-at-yahoo-common-sense.html) when it was revealed he hadn't earned a degree in computer science despite saying he had on his resume. The same survey found a quarter of those queried never do. [told The New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/nyregion/george-santos-interview.html) they had no record of Santos graduating. In the academic world, a business school dean, Mario Enzler at the University of St. They could use a service such as Federal privacy laws generally prevent colleges from sharing more specific information, including grade point averages. He [claimed to earn a degree](https://www.ajc.com/politics/politics-blog/herschel-walkers-campaign-falsely-claimed-he-graduated-from-college/4GXXB3TDCBB2TONACZWKVWO5JE/) from the University of Georgia despite never graduating from the institution, according to the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. But earning a degree can And he probably won't be the last. Many white-collar jobs require a bachelor's degree, and earning one can still be a point of pride for students and their families. And David Tovar, a former vice president of communications at Walmart, was [ousted in 2014](https://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/business/17tovar.html) after being with the company for nearly a decade for saying he had earned a degree he had not.

New York congressman-elect George Santos now admits he “embellished” his background, though it seems he really just made most of it up.

[Semafor](https://www.semafor.com/article/12/28/2022/george-santos-tries-to-explain-his-wealth), Santos explained — without providing much detail — that the $3.5 million to $11.5 million he made from a company he founded in 2021 was from “deal building” and “specialty consulting” for “high-net-worth individuals.” The firm, Devolder, was dissolved in 2022 after it failed to file an annual report; Santos claimed it was an accounting error. The Times found no record of his having attended the college from which he claimed to have graduated, no evidence he worked for the financial firms he listed as his prior employers, no sign of an animal-rescue charity he boasted of founding, no indication his claim of Jewish (and Holocaust-adjacent) ancestry was real, and on and on. But by the time he first ran for office in 2015, the basic outlines of Trump’s life and career in business and entertainment were well known and clearly established. But he’s going to have to come clean and stop pretending he just buffed up his accomplishments and characteristics rather than just making them up. He also did not provide much detail about his employment at Harbor City Capital, a firm [accused](https://www.sec.gov/litigation/litreleases/2021/lr25082.htm) in April 2021 by the Securities and Exchange Commission of running a Ponzi scheme. With Republicans (and particularly presumptive Speaker [Kevin McCarthy](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/the-many-ways-maga-republicans-threaten-kevin-mccarthy.html)) needing every vote they can muster to organize the House and Democrats being reluctant to disenfranchise Santos’s constituents, he will probably get away with his lies for the present. inventive, such as the claim that several of his employees in the shadowy family business he says he owns were killed in the But when the New York Times began [looking into his background](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html) in mid-December, it quickly became clear that the candidate who called himself the “full embodiment of the American Dream” may have been dreaming up an identity for himself. [George Santos](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/12/what-hasnt-george-santos-lied-about.html), congressman-elect from the Third District of New York and international man of mystery, has been the feel-bad story of the holiday season. But the firm has has no website or LinkedIn page, and Santos did not list any clients of the firm on campaign disclosure forms. At any rate, Santos now has the celebrity that will make further “embellishments” impossible. The (apparently) 34-year-old Long Island Republican won one of the handful of upset races that gave his party a slim margin of control of the U.S.

“New Yorkers deserve the truth and House Republicans deserve an opportunity to govern without this distraction.” Meanwhile, on Fox News on Tuesday night, former ...

[Nick Wu reports](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/28/larger-squad-how-the-hills-newest-progressives-plan-to-wield-power-00075631) this morning. politics for The Post, dies at 90,”](https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/12/27/richmond-journalist-donald-baker-dead/)by WaPo’s Harrison Smith: “Mr. [NYT’s Jonathan Weisman and Ken Bensinger report](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/us/politics/ronna-mcdaniel-harmeet-dhillon-rnc.html). Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) is joining K&L Gates as a government affairs counselor in the firm’s public policy and law practice. SUMMER LEE (Pa.), MAXWELL FROST (Fla.), GREG CASAR (Texas), BECCA BALINT (Vt.) and DELIA RAMIREZ (Ill.) are among the names you can get ready to hear a lot. [“Transportation Department will be looking into Southwest flight cancellations, Buttigieg says,”](https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/transportation-department-will-looking-southwest-flight-cancellations-rcna63422)NBC [“Supreme Court blocks lifting of Trump-era Title 42 border policy,”](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/27/supreme-court-blocks-lifting-of-title-42-border-policy-00075650)by Myah Ward and Josh Gerstein: “The high court’s action spares the Biden administration from a court-ordered winding down of the policy, as both Republicans and Democrats warned that the U.S. “White House officials view the political salience of his agenda as both an underappreciated element of their ability to defy the expectations of sweeping GOP gains in the midterms and as a critical piece of what comes next. [WSJ’s Scott Calvert reports](https://www.wsj.com/articles/glenn-youngkin-floated-as-potential-2024-contender-first-faces-tests-in-2023-11672149621?mod=hp_listb_pos5) that Youngkin’s desires to pass a 15-week abortion ban and $1 billion in tax cuts could face stiff resistance in the Democratic-led state Senate. [“DeSantis ‘Czar’ Used Alias, Private Email As Contractor Sought Migrant Flights’ Deal,”](https://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local/desantis-czar-used-alias-private-email-as-contractor-sought-migrant-flights-deal/2937675/)by NBC 6 South Florida’s Tony Pipitone: “As his former client was seeking the contract to relocate migrants from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard, Gov. South Carolina is leading the way on a bill to define gender in the state constitution “in the context of reproductive potential,” not someone’s gender identity. And “the talks have been prompted in part by concerns over the lack of genomic sequencing data that could help identify the emergence of a new variant,” as health experts warn that China’s surge could birth the first new bad one in over a year.

New York Rep.-elect George Santos is facing mounting criticism from his future Democratic colleagues for fabricating parts of his biography.

"He must do the public's will in Washington. "Attempts to blame others or minimize his actions are only making things worse and a complete distraction from the task at hand." "The left doesn't care about lying. His whole life story made up, and he's going to have to answer that question: Did you perpetrate a fraud on the voters?" I will be effective," he "I am not a criminal. "He appears to be a complete and utter fraud. Yet over the last few weeks, I have heard from countless Long Islanders how deeply troubled they are by the headlines surrounding George Santos," LaLota said. Speaking [with the website Semafor](https://www.semafor.com/article/12/28/2022/george-santos-tries-to-explain-his-wealth), Santos gave some details about how he said he earned fees from his work in finance and business but did not name any clients. That's a question from Kevin McCarthy at this point in time," Jeffries said. Additionally, Santos did not identify any clients of the firm on his financial disclosure forms. A 2020 disclosure form stated that Santos was paid a $55,000 salary the previous year.

Rep.-elect Nick LaLota, a Republican set to be sworn in next week, on Tuesday called for an ethics investigation into his fellow New Yorker George Santos, who ...

Roll Call [reported](https://www.rollcall.com/2022/12/27/fellow-new-york-republican-calls-for-santos-ethics-investigation/): [before Election Day](https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/gops-santos-acknowledges-lies-questions-remain-rcna63316)? “These are blatant lies, and it calls into question how your constituents and the American people can believe anything that you may say when you are standing on the floor of the House of Representatives.” [so wealthy so quickly](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/26/george-santos-resume-wealth/)? At this point, House Republican leaders, who desperately need Santos’ vote, are choosing to say [effectively nothing](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/us/politics/george-santos-mccarthy-republicans.html). [deceived](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/27/us/politics/george-santos-republican-jewish-coalition.html)” the organization about his faith.

(WASHINGTON) — New York Rep.-elect George Santos is facing mounting criticism from his future Democratic colleagues for fabricating parts of his biography ...

“He must do the public’s will in Washington. Residents want him to deliver tax relief and pass laws that will make our neighborhoods and our nation safer,” Cairo said. “He appears to be a complete and utter fraud. Yet over the last few weeks, I have heard from countless Long Islanders how deeply troubled they are by the headlines surrounding George Santos,” LaLota said. I will be good.” That’s a question from Kevin McCarthy at this point in time,” Jeffries said.

The former presidential candidate called resume-inflating Santos's claims 'blatant lies' in Fox News interview.

“Wow,” Gabbard responded. Santos initially talked about the role of integrity for politicians, but Gabbard pushed back: “What does it mean though? When asked about this, Santos told Gabbard that he has Jewish heritage but was raised Catholic. When Gabbard confronted him further about his lies regarding his work at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, and how he can expect his constituents to trust him, Santos said the lies on his resume are “debatable” and “not false at all”. “We can have this discussion that can go way above the American people’s head”, he said, “but that’s not what I campaigned on”. He said he has joked that he is “Jew-ish”.

A New York Republican who flipped a Democratic-held congressional seat on Long Island is being investigated by a local prosecutor for telling “stunning” ...

U.S. Representative-elect George Santos, a New York Republican who acknowledged lying about his education and employment history while running for Congress, ...

[reviewed records](https://imgur.com/a/7LWzFjg) indicating he used the alias of “Anthony Zabrovsky” for fundraising for a pet charity. CNN reached out to GoFundMe but did not receive a response. Um, and the first thing to go was the prep school. This was the panel I was on. The Republican Jewish Coalition disinvited Santos from appearing at any of its events because he “misrepresented his heritage.” “We don’t carry the Ukrainian last name. “He obtained a GED during his senior year.” He also falsely claimed that his grandparents “survived the Holocaust” and fled Europe to escape Jewish persecution. “And I did it in the fashion of renewable energy and global warming. The Nassau County district attorney’s office said Wednesday that it is looking into Santos’ fabrications, though it did not specify the falsehoods it would explore. Genealogists CNN previously spoke with found no evidence of Jewish or Ukrainian heritage in his family tree. CNN also reviewed more instances of Santos providing additional false history of his family’s background.

“The numerous fabrications and inconsistencies associated with Congressman-Elect Santos are nothing short of stunning,” said Nassau County District Attorney ...

The 87-page dossier sought to tie him to the Jan. “I am Catholic,” he told the Post. “He deceived us and misrepresented his heritage. The report also sought to depict him as a far-right candidate. “Congressman-Elect George Santos has broken the public trust by making serious misstatements regarding his background, experience and education, among other issues,” said Joseph G. The Times uncovered records in Brazil that show Santos was the subject of a criminal investigation there in 2008 over allegations that he used stolen checks to buy items at an clothing shop in the city of Niteroi. “No one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it.” He is scheduled to be sworn in next Tuesday, when the U.S. At the time, Santos would have been 19. In public comments and to us personally he previously claimed to be Jewish,” the coalition said. Cairo said he “expected more than just a blanket apology,” adding that “the damage that his lies have caused to many people, especially those who have been impacted by the Holocaust, are profound.” A spokesperson for the Nassau County DA’s office, Brendan Brosh, said Wednesday: “We are looking into the matter.” The scope of the investigation was not immediately clear.

The Nassau County district attorney said on Wednesday her office would examine Mr. Santos, who admitted to lying about his work and educational history ...

On Monday, he admitted that he had not graduated from that institution after The Times reported no record of his doing so. On Tuesday, Representative-elect Nick LaLota, a Republican who won in a neighboring district on Long Island, called for an investigation by the House Ethics Committee. She said that those calling for Mr. Santos to face further investigation for his statements on the campaign trail and on financial disclosure forms. Donnelly is one of several Long Island Republicans who have called on Mr. Jackie Silver, 56, of Great Neck, said she had voted for Mr. “When they don’t like someone, they really go after them,” Ms. In interviews with more than two dozen Long Islanders, many residents, including some who supported Mr. “He cheated,” Ms. He also acknowledged that he was not, as he had claimed, making substantial income as a landlord. Santos, a Republican who will represent northern Nassau County and northeast Queens when the next Congress begins, in the wake of a New York Times investigation that uncovered discrepancies in his campaign biography and raised questions about his business dealings. “No one is above the law, and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it,” said Ms.

In a sense Santos is a sad, farcical version of where Donald Trump has taken the Republican Party — into the land of unreality, the continent of lies. Trump's ...

McAdams quotes people who had been close to Trump who reported that being with him wasn’t like being with a conventional person; it was like being with an entity who was playing the role of Donald Trump. (If he were real, Jay Gatsby might have lived — estimations of the precise locations of the fictional East and West Egg vary — in what is now Santos’s district.) This feels different. McAdams calls Trump an “episodic man,” who experiences life as a series of disjointed moments, not as a coherent narrative flow of consciousness. I wonder if the era of the short-attention spans and the online avatars is creating a new character type: the person who doesn’t experience life as an accumulation over decades, but just as a series of disjointed performances in the here and now, with an echo of hollowness inside. In his book, “The Strange Case of Donald J. A reasonably accurate and coherent autobiographical narrative is one of the most important things a person can have. I don’t feel sorry for Trump the way I do for Santos, because Trump is so cruel. He claims to be a populist who hates the elites, but he wanted you to think he once worked at Goldman Sachs. Trump,” the eminent personality psychologist Dan McAdams argues that Trump could continually lie to himself because he had no actual sense of himself. He fabricated a new persona, that of a meritocratic superman. In a sense Santos is a sad, farcical version of where Donald Trump has taken the Republican Party — into the land of unreality, the continent of lies. I can’t feel much anger toward Santos for his deceptiveness, just a bit of sorrow.

The Nassau County district attorney said on Wednesday her office would examine Mr. Santos, who admitted to lying about his work and educational history ...

On Monday, he admitted that he had not graduated from that institution after The Times reported no record of his doing so. On Tuesday, Representative-elect Nick LaLota, a Republican who won in a neighboring district on Long Island, called for an investigation by the House Ethics Committee. She said that those calling for Mr. Santos to face further investigation for his statements on the campaign trail and on financial disclosure forms. Donnelly is one of several Long Island Republicans who have called on Mr. Jackie Silver, 56, of Great Neck, said she had voted for Mr. “When they don’t like someone, they really go after them,” Ms. In interviews with more than two dozen Long Islanders, many residents, including some who supported Mr. “He cheated,” Ms. He also acknowledged that he was not, as he had claimed, making substantial income as a landlord. Santos, a Republican who will represent northern Nassau County and northeast Queens when the next Congress begins, in the wake of a New York Times investigation that uncovered discrepancies in his campaign biography and raised questions about his business dealings. “No one is above the law, and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it,” said Ms.

New York: A New York Republican who flipped a Democratic-held congressional seat on Long Island is being investigated by a local prosecutor for telling ...

In an interview last week with Semafor, he struggled to explain what the company did, saying it “landed a couple of million-dollar contracts”. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, who is counting every vote in his bid to become Speaker, has so far been silent about Santos’ lies. No one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it.” [George Santos, who is scheduled to be sworn in next week](/link/follow-20170101-p5c91c), has admitted he made up much of his resume, including that he graduated from college and worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup. Santos’ lies first came to light in a New York Times report last week. “The residents of Nassau County and other parts of the third district must have an honest and accountable representative in Congress.

George Santos of New York lied about his heritage, education and professional pedigree as he campaigned for...

“He deceived us and misrepresented his heritage. “Congressman-elect George Santos has broken the public trust by making serious misstatements regarding his background, experience and education, among other issues,” Joseph G. In public comments and to us personally, he previously claimed to be Jewish,” the coalition said. Federal campaign records show that he loaned his campaign more than $US700,000 (more than $1 million) but the source of that money has yet to be explained. “I am Catholic,” he told the Post. During his campaign, he referred to himself as “a proud American Jew”. Beyond his resume, Santos invented a life story that has also come under question, including claims that his grandparents “fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and again fled persecution during WWII”. In an interview with the New York Post earlier this week, Santos apologised for his fabrications but downplayed them as “sins” over embellishing his resume, adding that “we do stupid things in life”. The Times uncovered records in Brazil that show Santos was the subject of a criminal investigation there in 2008 over allegations that he used stolen cheques to buy items at a clothing shop in the city of Niteroi. “The residents of Nassau County and other parts of the third district must have an honest and accountable representative in Congress,” she said. Donnelly, a Republican, said the fabrications and inconsistencies were “nothing short of stunning”. A spokesperson for the Nassau County District attorney's office, Brendan Brosh, said on Wednesday: “We are looking into the matter.”

Santos won one of the New York State seats in Congress that flipped from Democrat to Republican.

Obama got the Nobel Peace Prize and proceeded to wage war in various parts of the world for his entire two terms of office. It points to broader issues relating to the nature of the political system and the capitalist political establishment. He attempted to finesse some of them, for instance “correcting” an earlier claim that one of his businesses had “lost four people” in the horrific Pulse nightclub massacre in which 49 people were killed in an anti-gay rampage in Orlando, Florida. The lesson of this latest political escapade is that the working class has no choice between these liars who represent the ruling class. The media was hypnotized by the fact that the vote pitted two openly gay candidates against one another, breathlessly informing us that this was a first in US history. Biden, the most “pro-union” president ever, just robbed the railroad workers of their right to strike and presides over an economy in which the billionaires are more powerful than ever. It is very likely, however, that the media and self-proclaimed liberals and “progressives” pulled their punches because Santos made cynical use of identity politics—yet more evidence of its reactionary role. Four House seats were “flipped” to the fascistic Republicans, contributing significantly to the narrow majority won by Trump’s party in the House of Representatives. Even his address could not be confirmed; an individual at the address he had listed had no knowledge of him. His personal finances were a combination of chaos and suspicious elements that were nowhere explained. The New York Times discovered, in short order, that the 34-year-old native of Brazil was not, as he claimed, the grandson of Ukrainian Jews who fled the Holocaust. The Republican leadership, most prominently Kevin McCarthy of California, who is running for Speaker when the new Congress convenes on January 3, has maintained total silence on the Santos scandal.