George Santos (34) entangled in a web of untruth, but still sits in Congress over the New Year: – I’m not a fraud, assures Republicans.

In November, the young politician won congressional elections in northern Long Island and in the northeastern Queens borough of New York. Since then he has been pushed from doubt to doubt.

The American media almost tore his image to shreds.

Santos was forced to admit that what he said about his family background, higher education and career was not entirely true.

Now federal and local prosecutors will investigate whether he has committed a crime.

State Attorney Anne Donnelly of Nassau County in New York state was very clear:

– The many lies and inconsistencies associated with congressman Santos are appalling.

– Shown on CV

George Santos is the first openly gay Republican to win a seat in Congress, where his party snatched a majority from Democrats in the midterm elections.

He won by a wide margin in a district that has traditionally supported Democrats.

The election victory faded, however, as journalists at the New York Times, CNN and other outlets discussed his published CV and began digging into Santos’ past.

– Did I embellish my CV? Yes I do. And I’m sorry for that, it shouldn’t have been done, George Santos told the publication City & State.

– Same person

He added that words cannot fully explain his feelings.

– But I’m still the same person. I’m not a fraud. I’m not a cartoon character. I am not a mythical creature made up by someone.

In the election campaign, Santos described himself as the personification of the American dream and claimed that he ran to ensure others could cover the same distance.

But New York Time the autobiography on his campaign website is left at the seams. Here is the fake that the American media has exposed:

Career

Santos stated that he had worked for the world’s largest financial company Citigroup and the well-known brokerage house Goldman Sachs.

He presents himself as a seasoned financier and investor on Wall Street. But both companies deny that he ever worked for them.

– An unfortunate choice of words, explains Santos New York Post.

In fact he was once employed by a company called LinkBridge Investors, which connects fund managers with investors.

Education

Santos earned a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from Baruch College in Manhattan. He also claimed to have studied at New York University.

None of the educational institutions found him among his former students.

– I have not taken exams at any higher educational institution, the newly elected congressman admitted in the New York Post.

Santos also claimed to have been a student at the elite Horace Mann school in the Bronx, but this school also did not find him in the archives, he wrote. Washington Post.

Property

Santos stated that he and his family owned a portfolio of 13 valuable New York properties that provided them with high rental income.

Journalists checked real estate databases and found no properties listed in his name, his immediate family, or businesses associated with him.

– George Santos did not own any property, he admitted to the New York Post.

He instead had to admit that in 2017 he was sentenced to pay more than NOK 100,000 to a landlord in Queens, after he failed to pay his rent for months.

Several years earlier, he was evicted from another house, when he didn’t pay his rent…

Charity

Santos stated that he founded and runs a charity called Friends of Pets United, which reportedly rescues 2,500 dogs and cats.

Gifts to organizations must be tax-free, but the IRS has not registered any organizations under that name.

massacre

Santos claims that the company he worked for lost four employees mass shooting against gay nightclub Pulse in Orlando, Florida in June 2016.

The New York Times reviewed news coverage and memorials after the massacre that claimed 49 lives and found nothing to support Santos’ claims.

In an interview with the radio station WABC changing Saint’s explanation:

– We lost four people who were going to start working for the company that I was going to found in Orlando, said the young politician.

Family

Santos stated that her mother was born in Brazil as the daughter of immigrants fleeing persecution of Jews in Ukraine.

But CNN checked public records and revealed that his mother’s parents did not escape the disaster, but were born in Brazil before World War II.

Santos has identified as a Catholic and a secular Jew.

– I always joke that I’m Catholic, but I’m also Jewish – as in “jew-ish”, the Republican told City & State.

based on Language Council is the “ish” that ends the reservation meaning like that, that sort of thing.

Santos said he grew up with the story that his grandparents came from a Jewish family and were refugees from Ukraine who settled in Brazil.

Fraud

Court documents in Brazil show that, aged 21, Santos admitted that two years earlier he had stolen checkbooks and committed fraud.

He was charged, but did not appear in court, according to the New York Times.

– I’m not a criminal. Not here, not in Brazil, not anywhere in the world. Absolutely not. That didn’t happen, one distressed politician told the New York Post.

– Shame and regret

at Santos’ campaign website His biography on Wednesday was changed and updated.

– I am ashamed and sorry to embellish my CV, he told the New York Post.

He won’t be speaking to the New York Times, which first disclosed it. Her attorney Joe Murray hit back at the tabloids in a brief statement:

– It’s not surprising that Santos has enemies in the New York Times who are trying to tarnish his good name with these slanderous accusations.

According to the New York Times, the federal investigation focused on financial issues, such as how Santos was able to loan his own election campaign $700,000.

– No one is above the law

Local investigations in Nassau deal with lies.

– No one is above the law. If a crime was committed in this area, we will prosecute, said State Attorney Anne Donnelly.

Democrats like Outgoing Speaker Nancy Pelosi have declared that Santos is unfit for a seat in Congress. Republican leaders are silent.

The House of Representatives cannot prevent Santos from taking his seat next Tuesday. But Santos could be subject to ethical scrutiny, according to experts.

– Dirty lie

On Fox News on Tuesday, Santos’ ears fluttered from interviewer Tulsi Gabbard, a former Democrat congresswoman.

She asked him if he wasn’t ashamed of his life and scolded him for the statement that he only embellished his CV:

– This is a big lie. How are your constituents and the American people supposed to believe anything you say in the House of Representatives?