George Santos

The embattled representative allegedly performed in drag shows under the name “Kitara Ravache.”

2023. The Handbasket, 18 Jan. "The Daily Santos: Vol. Federal and local New York prosecutors are also [looking](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/10/nyregion/george-santos-ethics-inquiry.html) into whether Santos committed any crimes involving his finances or his lies on the campaign trail. The [Republican Party](https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/blogs/stateline/2022/12/14/gop-lawmakers-aim-to-criminalize-drag-shows-where-children-could-be-present) has increasingly denounced drag shows and performers in recent years, saying performances where children are present should be criminalized. The media continues to make outrageous claims about my life while I am working to deliver results": She also said Santos' drag name was Kitara Ravache. He was always such a dreamer," Rochard She said the photograph she posted was from a 2008 Pride parade. We were unable to determine with certainty whether the person photographed with Rochard was indeed Santos — he denied the accusations, describing them as "categorically false." 19, 2023, that Santos was part of the drag queen pageant circuit around 15 years ago, and at one point aspired to be Miss Gay Rio de Janeiro. George Santos, R-N.Y., began work at the Capitol in January 2023, his history was under intense scrutiny, including an alleged time he performed as a drag queen in Brazil.

U.S. Representative George Santos competed as a drag queen in Brazilian beauty pageants 15 years ago, two acquaintances told Reuters on Wednesday, adding to ...

Santos competed in a drag beauty pageant that year using the drag name Kitara Ravache but lost, Rochard said. He was always such a dreamer," Rochard said. Three years later, Santos competed in a drag beauty pageant in Rio, Rochard said.

Reports that Santos was a former drag queen who played a role in a dog's death would normally prompt GOP leaders to cut ties. But these aren't normal times.

Tim Murphy in 2017 [announced](https://www.politico.com/story/2017/10/05/tim-murphy-resigns-from-congress-243510) his resignation in the wake of reports he pressured his lover to have an abortion… His [schooling](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/26/nyregion/george-santos-interview.html), his [faith](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/embattled-republican-santos-faces-new-heat-over-jew-ish-heritage-claim-2022-12-27/), his [wealth](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/george-santos-worst-lies), his mother’s [whereabouts](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/nyregion/george-santos-mother-911.html) on 9/11, his grandmother’s [experiences](https://www.cnn.com/2022/12/21/politics/george-santos-geneaology/index.html) during the Holocaust, his staffers’ [deaths](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html) at a gay club in Orlando… Trey Radel of Florida called it a day in 2014 after [pleading](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2014/01/27/trey-radel-resign-congress-cocaine/4934741/) guilty to misdemeanor cocaine possession, Republican Rep. [realize](https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/more-people-are-resigning-from-congress-than-at-any-time-in-recent-history/) they can’t do the job under such conditions. Anthony Weiner [quit](https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/17/nyregion/anthony-d-weiner-tells-friends-he-will-resign.html) in 2011 after a three-week circus surrounding his lewd online messages, Republican Rep. Now that’s the case so long as the [protesters](https://apnews.com/article/drag-story-hour-hosts-e1ad3ff0dd73e2e66d98190d00568a1e) who interrupt them don’t frighten the kids with their threats of violence. [reporting](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/embattled-us-rep-santos-was-drag-queen-brazil-pageants-say-associates-2023-01-19/) that Santos, who campaigned as a hard-right conservative, performed in drag during his time in Brazil in the late aughts. GOP leaders apparently [knew](https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/mccarthy-insists-questions-santos-resume/story?id=96465195) that his résumé was as fishy as the seafood counter in Bayville, but nonetheless allowed his candidacy to move ahead—for a second time—as they chased power. [richest](https://www.forbes.com/sites/andrewdepietro/2022/10/21/the-wealthiest-congressional-districts-of-2022/?sh=69608a866f76), meaning the right Republican in that role could help raise bank for the party. Santos even won seats on the committees overseeing small business and science, suggesting Republican indifference to charges that they are talking out of both sides of their mouths on LGBTQ policies just to keep a seat in a district that leans in Democrats’ favor. Still, for GOP leadership, Santos (née Kitara Ravache) is a useful widget in their majority machine. [rile up](https://www.wsj.com/articles/drag-queen-story-hour-is-just-the-beginning-american-library-association-woke-social-justice-book-banning-white-supremacy-11668193580) potential voters who perceive the acts as alien to their values.

Santos "is crazy," the performer, Eula Rochard, told Insider. Rochard told NBC Santos was "never the type of drag queen who could hold down the show."

She added that Santos competed as a drag queen at a 2008 beauty pageant in Rio. [He lied on his resume,](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html) falsely claimed his mom [died on 9/11](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/12/29/george-santos-mother-911-death/), and has been cagey about how his sudden unexplained wealth helped [finance his congressional run](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-09/santos-illegally-hid-source-of-campaign-donations-campaign-legal-center-alleges). - A Brazilian drag performer said Thursday that GOP Rep. Insider asked Rochard for a response to Santos' denial. The performer, who uses the drag name Eula Rochard, also spoke with Insider via Instagram on Thursday. "The media continues to make outrageous claims about my life while I am working to deliver results.

The veteran who owned the dog says Santos pocketed $3000 from a GoFundMe page that was set up to help pay for surgery.

"The organizer failed to respond, which led to the fundraiser being removed and the email associated with that account prohibited from further use on our platform." Navy veteran, says that Santos posed as the owner of a pet charity under the alias Anthony Devolder. GoFundMe confirmed to CBS News it blocked the email associated with the fundraiser in 2016. George Santos, the embattled Republican congressman from New York, is under fire for allegations that he stole thousands meant to pay for life-saving surgery for a homeless veteran's dying service dog. These distractions won't stop me!" Richard Osthoff, a U.S.

Hours later, video surfaced showing a person in a dress, who appears to be the first-term New York congressman, talking about performing in drag.

The new allegations, though he denies them, have only added fuel to the fire for those calling him out on lies and hypocrisy. “My work in animal advocacy was the labor of love & hard work. Kabas said she spoke with Eula Rochard, a Brazilian drag queen who allegedly was friends with Santos when he lived near Rio de Janeiro, who said she and her friends knew the now-congressman as Anthony or his drag name, Kitara. Even though he has boasted of being an openly gay Republican, Santos has voiced support for far-right policies such as Florida’s “Don’t Say Gay” law. “The media continues to make outrageous claims about my life while I am working to deliver results. The video was first

A nonpartisan watchdog group has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission accusing Santos of illegally concealing the source of campaign funds and ...

(Copping a plea spared [Vice President Spiro Agnew](https://www.nytimes.com/1973/10/11/archives/judge-orders-fine-3-years-probation-tells-court-income-was-taxable.html) jail time in 1973.) Santos might figure that surrendering his seat in Congress will only earn him a quicker seat in prison. [reported that Santos had told](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/28/george-santos-kevin-mccarthy-house-speaker-00075706) New York party leaders that he wouldn’t seek reelection in 2024. Expulsion requires a two-thirds majority of the House, and only two convicted members have been [expelled in modern times](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expulsion_from_the_United_States_Congress) — Michael Myers of Pennsylvania and Jim Traficant of Ohio. [two dozen members](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2015/07/29/more-than-two-dozen-members-of-congress-have-been-indicted-since-1980/) of the House and Senate have been charged with crimes since 1980, mostly for accepting bribes. But last Friday, he fended off calls for his resignation by indicating he might seek vindication by [running again](https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/house/santos-defends-record-hints-running-again). As [Ben Jacobs](https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/1/12/23551728/george-santos-congress-resign) noted in Vox, clutching his seat might give him some plea-bargaining leverage if and when federal prosecutors come calling. Santos wisely barnacled himself to Speaker Kevin McCarthy as quickly as he could, voting for him on all 15 ballots in the speaker race, and his loyalty has earned him two A nonpartisan watchdog group has [filed a complaint](https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-watchdog-accuses-rep-george-santos-breaking-campaign-finance-laws-2023-01-09/) with the Federal Election Commission accusing Santos of illegally concealing the source of campaign funds and of using donor cash to cover his personal rent. [confessed liar](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/the-everything-guide-to-george-santoss-lies.html) under [criminal investigation](https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/george-santos-federal-investigation/), like the recently sworn-in Rep. According to a [Congressional Research Service report](https://www.everycrsreport.com/reports/RL33229.html) from 2014, no federal statute or House rule commands a lawmaker to leave Congress if indicted or convicted of a felony. The Santos campaign also [appears to have overspent](https://www.politico.com/news/2022/12/30/where-the-george-santos-scandals-stand-00075871) on air travel, hotels and car services. But Congress is a great place to hang out and collect a paycheck if you’re charged with breaking the law.

With Kevin McCarthy and co. giving government oversight power to election deniers, it's perhaps fitting that the comically dishonest New York representative ...

[the Burberry scarf](https://patch.com/new-york/portwashington/friends-say-santos-wore-stolen-scarf-stolen-election-speech) he wore to the January 5 “ [Freedom Plaza rally](https://www.pscp.tv/w/1mnxeawdWwPxX?t=59m55s)” pre-insurrection event was claimed to have been stolen. (Santos [called](https://www.semafor.com/article/01/17/2023/george-santos-denies-swindling-a-disabled-veteran-while-their-dog-died-of-cancer) the story “fake.”) [playing three-dimensional chess](https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/06/03/kevin-mccarthy-washington-media-taboo-intelligence-00036894). [YouTube video](https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/29/us/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-republicans.html) in 2018 in which she claimed that the 1999 plane crash that killed John F. And Santos seems to be happy to be a member of any club that would have him: He appeared this past week on Steve Bannon’s podcast, [interviewed](https://www.mediamatters.org/real-americas-voice/while-guest-hosting-steve-bannons-podcast-rep-matt-gaetz-r-fl-defends-rep) by fellow MAGA caucus member Matt Gaetz. “It’s odd, there’s never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon,” [she said.](https://apnews.com/article/donald-trump-technology-las-vegas-mass-shooting-media-social-media-700f28747d856a9bad22a59674a9afe6) Greene will now be tasked with serving on the committee that was created after a terrorist attack that she’s spun conspiracy theories about. [shot back](https://nypost.com/2022/12/28/marjorie-taylor-greene-defends-george-santos/): “The real reason they’re attacking George Santos is that he [is] the first openly gay [non-incumbent] Republican elected and they hate him for it.” Tell that to the disabled veteran he reportedly grifted $3,000 from. [phone seized](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/10/us/politics/scott-perry-phone-fbi.html) by the FBI as part of a federal probe into Trump’s plot to overturn the 2020 election “might investigate the investigators,” while Marjorie Taylor Greene, “who incited Jan. The Small Business Committee assignment is especially galling given that Santos [lied about having an MBA](https://nypost.com/2023/01/17/george-santos-assigned-to-two-house-committees-despite-repeated-lies/). Santos found out about it.” Sure, Santos’s campaign fundraiser is the problem, but not the newly sworn in congressman whose documented dishonesty is so off the charts that New York magazine is running (and updating) a listicle titled “ [Here’s Every Single Lie Told by George Santos](https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2023/01/the-everything-guide-to-george-santoss-lies.html).” [seating](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/politics/george-santos-committee-assignments/index.html) Santos on two House committees—Small Business and Science, Space, and Technology—just like he’s any other new member. He could try distancing himself from Trump, but fully breaking with MAGA would be too painful; the former president still had a hold on the GOP base and was [raking](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/07/31/trump-committees-fundraising-2021-fec/) in donations.

A Long Island Patch reporter is racking up scoops while congressional correspondents chase down the fabulist freshman rep, who may just be leaning into the ...

On my time.” In another [clip](https://twitter.com/KevinFreyTV/status/1613531890987995142) that went viral on Twitter, from January 12, Santos is asked for a response to calls that he step down. [bathroom brawl](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/marjorie-taylor-greene-lauren-boebert-bathroom-fight) of Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, to the positively Kardashian-like dramas [chronicled](https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/01/congressional-kardashians-kevin-mccarthy-speaker-drama) last week by my colleague Molly Jong-Fast. [was previously known](https://twitter.com/KFILE/status/1616080236143058946) to many—intensified when Santos showed up for his first day of work in the nation’s capital on January 3, greeted by a crush of journalists staking out his office, “just waiting for him to come in and say literally anything,” as Politico’s Nicholas Wu put it, “waiting outside for any sign of life, any crumb of news he might drop. If you’re finding it difficult to stay up to speed on all the madness, you might want to subscribe to this [new Substack series](https://thehandbasket.substack.com/) by freelance journalist Marisa Kabas, “The Daily Santos.” From the lead of [Tuesday’s installment](https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/the-daily-santos-vol-6): “He basically killed a dog.” Instead, as the television correspondent recalled, “He was parked on Independence, and there was a super long TV shot where the press was running after him, this amazing footage of reporters throwing questions until he jumped into a Ford Bronco. “The truth has finally come out,” he [told](https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/17/politics/george-santos-former-roommate-cnntv/index.html) a stunned Don Lemon. [reported](https://patch.com/new-york/portwashington/more-george-santos-acquaintances-come-forward-theft-allegations) that a former Santos roommate, Gregory Morey-Parker, was “100 percent” certain his missing Burberry scarf was the same one [draped around Santos’s neck](https://nypost.com/2023/01/14/george-santos-wore-stolen-clothes-to-stolen-election-rally/) during a “Stop the Steal” rally in Washington on the eve of the January 6 riot. “How does he have the time for all these scams?” Rusty Foster [pondered](https://www.todayintabs.com/p/in-my-hypos-era?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email) in his “Today in Tabs” newsletter. [bombshell investigation](https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html) that demonstrated, in cringe-inducing, mortifying detail, how Santos’s entire résumé appeared to be an elaborate work of fiction. I will not be distracted nor fazed by this.”) Hours later, on Wednesday night, the Times [published](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/18/nyregion/george-santos-mother-911.html) a review of immigration documents that appeared to fully debunk Santos’s claim that his mother had been working in the World Trade Center’s South Tower on 9/11. ‘Kevin McCarthy sent a dog-abusing swindler of disabled veterans to look after your small business’ is the kind of thing that starts dragging down people beyond Santos.” (Sarlin got a [comment](https://www.semafor.com/article/01/17/2023/george-santos-denies-swindling-a-disabled-veteran-while-their-dog-died-of-cancer) from Santos calling the Patch story “fake,” which, it goes without saying, should be taken with a hundred-pound bag of salt.) “It reminds me of Scooby-Doo,” Sweet told me when we spoke earlier in the day, “and the journalists are the pesky kids.” (Jimmy Kimmel [made the same joke](https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/19/arts/television/jimmy-kimmel-george-santos.html) the following night.) [sneered](https://twitter.com/bgrueskin/status/1615514805242155009?s=43&t=JNrbAYEGyxH1e_hXOdXsmQ) Columbia J-school professor Bill Grueskin.

“The reports that I would let a dog die is shocking & insane,” embattled Republican Rep. George Santos tweeted. The tweet refers to allegations that Santos ...

[NBC reported Wednesday](https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/records-show-george-santos-mom-wasnt-us-sept-11-rcna66411) that Santos claimed his mother was in the World Trade Center on Sept. [Santos flaunting his inaccurate resume](https://www.cnbc.com/2023/01/09/george-santos-raised-money-from-wealthy-gop-donors-while-lying-about-his-resume.html) to help raise campaign funds, to Santos lying about being a [college volleyball star](https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/11/santos-lies-volleyball/). "GoFundMe has a zero tolerance policy for misuse of our platform and cooperates with law enforcement investigations of those accused of wrongdoing." House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., has echoed Santos' own argument that voters of his district should be the ones to decide whether he stays in Congress. The Queens District Attorney's office declined to comment specifically on Santos' alleged mishandling of the crowdfunding campaign. "My work in animal advocacy was the labor of love & hard work." But some top Republicans on Capitol Hill have not joined those calls. Navigating a swirling torrent of scandals and calls for his resignation, embattled Republican Rep. The New York Times He was described as a disabled U.S. He doesn't deserve that job. - The tweet refers to allegations that Santos years earlier had disappeared with thousands of dollars raised in a GoFundMe to cover the costs of a surgery for a disabled veteran's dog's stomach tumor.

Andrew Intrater, a wealthy businessman, has been in touch with the S.E.C. about Mr. Santos's dealings on behalf of a company accused in a Ponzi scheme.

But Mr. Mr. (Mr. By then, Mr. In fact, Mr. He and Mr. Maroney liked Mr. After Mr. Some of Mr. Although Mr. is handling Mr. And while Mr.

Photos from 2008 have emerged, apparently depicting embattled New York congressman George Santos living in Rio as a drag queen named Kitara Ravache.

(Santos appears in video at 4:40) George had disappeared for a little while, and then returned to Brazil with a lot of money, and that was about the same time when the picture was taken,” she said. She said everyone knew him as Anthony (*never* George), or by his drag name, Kitara, and confirms this photo is from a 2008 drag show at Icaraí Beach. There’s nothing wrong with being a cleaning lady, but if his dad was rich, then why?” Santos in a tweet angrily denied that he had ever been a Drag queen. “The most recent obsession from the media claiming that I am a drag Queen or “performed” as a drag Queen is categorically false.