Inaccurate Biographies of a Newly-elected Representative Candidate, George Anthony Devolder-Santos

The media outlets were correct in their reporting, and Santos fudged his resume and many of his biographies. He claimed in a WABC interview that many people exaggerate in their resume, or twist it a bit.

The discrepancies raise ethical and legal questions for Santos as he prepares to officially take on his role as a lawmaker in January as part of the new Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

Santos represents the kind of progress that the Left is so threatened by – a gay, Latino, immigrant and Republican who won a Biden district in overwhelming fashion by demonstrating that there is a better option than the broken promises and failed policies of the Democratic Party.

Santos’ biography has at times listed an education at Baruch College and New York University, earning degrees in finance and economics. A NYU spokesperson, John Beckman, told CNN, “the University’s records do not reflect anyone with that name [George Anthony Devolder-Santos] having attended NYU.” A spokesperson for Baruch College told CNN it could not find a record of anyone with his name or birthday ever attending the school.

CNN confirmed that the salarySantos listed in his financial disclosures this year and last was $750,000, and that the Devolder Organization that he claimed was a “family firm” with 80 million dollars of assets, is in fact not.

After failing to file the required annual report, the business was temporarily deemed inactive by the state of Florida and was registered there in 2021, as found in a search for the organization. Santos failed to report any clients he served in his financial disclosure due to the fact that a website or LinkedIn profile couldn’t be found.

What George Santos allegedly told about his time at the New York Times during his term as a Republican congressional aide to the 2016 Florida shooting at Pulse

GOP control of the House went from being limited to New York suburbs to being widespread in Queens and some Long Island suburbs, thanks to a competitive election in the newly drawn district.

It was Santos’ second run – he lost to Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi in 2020 – and most of the criticism he faced centered on his attendance of former President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington on January 6, 2021, and a video in which he claimed to have written a “nice check” to help alleged rioters with their legal fees.

Joseph Cairo Jr., the chairman of Nassau County’s Republican committee, believes that George Santos should be given an opportunity to address the claims detailed in the article.

Cairo said he looks forward to hearing the response fromSantos.

“It is no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at the New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations,” said Joseph Murray.

“Only in this country does somebody who comes from a basement apartment in Jackson Heights, like I did, is able to rise to become a successful businessperson, to then run for United States Congress.”

Four employees were lost in the 2016 shooting at the Pulse nightclub in Florida. That wasn’t true, either, although he now says it was four prospective employees; still, he didn’t provide any names or other details.

At the time, I had some people that worked for me in the club. “My company at the time, we lost four employees that were at Pulse.”

The New York Rep.-Electoral Candidate George Santos is a Marga Republican, and he is not a Fraud

In an editorial before the election, the North Shore Leader newspaper endorsed Santos’ Democratic opponent, Robert Zimmerman, and voiced skepticism about Santos’ credibility.

McCarthy, who is still trying to get enough votes to become speaker, has not commented about the controversy surrounding Santos’ biography.

Discrepancies on New York Rep.-elect George Santos’ resume are “serious” and the GOP politician “deserves an opportunity” to clear his name in the face of accusations, a top Republican in Nassau County said Monday.

Jeffries said in the statement to CNN that he was clearly unqualified to serve in the House, and he called Santos an “extreme” and “marga” Republican.

A Nassau County Legislator, who was once a candidate for the 3rd Congressional District, said thatSantos should resign immediately.

Lafazan said he plans to write letters to the House Ethics Committee requesting an investigation and called on the attorney general’s office to look at “potential wrongdoing when it comes to campaign finance violations.”

The stories of scam artists and con men are very captivating, and the Santos saga is no different. What makes a person lie so often and so brazenly? What is it that makes someone who has a mostly worthless resume put themselves in the public eye while running for office? When this person is finally caught, they lash out defiantly and refuse to face consequences, but how is that possible?

Santos even seems to have lied about his charity work. Friends of Pets United was not a charity in either New York or New Jersey, and he claims to be the one who founded it. The New York Times reported that the IRS has no record of it. The purported beneficiary of one $50-a-head fundraiser for Friends of Pets United says that she never received the money raised, according to the Times as well. Now, he said he helped out the charity and found homes for the animals.

“I am not a criminal. In an interview with John Catsimatidis, the man talked about not committing any crimes in any jurisdiction in the world.

“To get down to the nit and gritty, I’m not a fraud. I am not a criminal who defrauded the nation and made up a fictional character to run for Congress. I’ve been around a while. A lot of people know me. They are familiar with who I am. They’ve done business dealings with me,” he added.

“I’m not going to make excuses for this, but a lot of people overstate in their resumes, or twist a little bit. He said he was not denying he was guilty of that.

He admitted that he never worked directly for the financial firms as he had previously claimed, but he also claimed that he did work for them through his company, saying that was a bad choice of words.

“I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume,” he told the Post, adding that he owns up to that and that “we do stupid things in life.”

Santos was similarly dismissive of reporting on his false claims of Jewish heritage. According to the Post, Santos never claimed to be Jewish. I’m a Catholic. I said that I was Jewish because I had learned my maternal family had a Jewish background.

The New York Post reported that Santos said that he never claimed to be Jewish. “I am Catholic. I said I was “Jew-ish” because I know my maternal family had a Jewish background.

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CNN has reached out to House GOP leadership and the National Republican Congressional Committee in the wake of Santos’ admissions. House GOP leadership was silent amid last week’s revelations. Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy would not answer CNN’s questions Thursday when asked if he was concerned about apparent misrepresentations.

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For example, he claimed he worked at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, listing specific roles he held in these organizations. He says that he simply interacted with both companies through his actual employment at the company Link Bridge, and that a mistake was made with a poor choice of words.

So why should the public trust anything further he says, given his egregious pattern of lying, dissembling and then downplaying his own lies? And how should the GOP respond?

Republican Party leaders could try to keep Santos out of office. They could publicly denounce him, and say that their party stands for honesty and will not stand for brazenly lying to constituents. That may end with their party losing the seat in a special election, but that’s hardly a foregone conclusion; and at some point, principles have to trump power. If he insists on taking office, they could launch an ethics investigation or hold committee assignments back from him.

Although he apologized for the fabrication of his resume, Santos still says he intends to serve in Congress.

Democratic Reps. Joaquin Castro of Texas and Ted Lieu of California were among those calling on Santos – after the congressman-elect gave interviews acknowledging “embellishing” his resume – to resign and if he refuses, for the House to expel him.

Nick LaLota, the new Republican Rep., said in a statement that there should be a full investigation by the House ethics committee and law enforcement is required.

Anthony D’Agostino, who will be sworn in as a lawmaker from New York later this year, condemned the false statements thatSantos made but stopped short of calling for an investigation.

When it came to bad behavior in the past, the California Republican has shown little desire to punish his own members. McCarthy will let the probes play out before deciding how to proceed, so he has declined to weigh in when members are under investigation.

In an interview with City & State posted Monday night,Santos said he would remain a productive member of the US Congress in the 118th session.

The chairman of the GOP in Nassau County said Tuesday that he believed Santos to be a broken public trust and has a lot to do to regain it.

“I am deeply disappointed in Mr. Santos, and I expected more than just a blanket apology,” Cairo said in a statement. Those who were impacted by the Holocaust have been the most damaged by his lies.

The Republican Jewish Coalition said on Tuesday that a congressman would not be welcome at future events because he misrepresented his heritage.

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Santos has not answeredNPR’s repeated requests for an interview, but spoke to conservative media outlets and insisted that he will take office next month as scheduled.

He now acknowledges none of that is true. He also admits his claim that four of his employees died in the 2016 Pulse night club shooting in Orlando, Fla., was false.

The Constitution doesn’t prevent candidates from lying, according to Richard Briffault, an expert on campaign law at Columbia University.

One legal wrinkle could be the roughly $700,000 Santos says he loaned his campaign. According to Briffault, federal law prohibits candidates from misstating the source of campaign funds.

Dan Goldman, New York Democrat who won a House seat last month, said in a statement that all of Mr. Santos’ disclosures must be thoroughly investigated by the Federal Election Commission.

In interviews, Santos blamed his past on what he describes as the liberal media and said he has the support of voters in his Long Island district.