Santos ( Born on July 22, 1988) has represented New York’s 3rd congressional district since 2023.
After losing to Thomas Suozzi in 2020, Republican Santos was elected to Congress in 2022.
Santos has publicly and privately made several false or dubious claims concerning his biography, employment history, criminal record, financial situation, ethnicity, religion, and other topics.
Six weeks after his election, multiple news sites discovered that substantial aspects of his self-published biography looked to be falsified, including claims about his lineage, schooling, career, charity work, property ownership, and crimes he claimed to be a victim of. Santos acknowledged faking his education and employment.
In 2010, Santos admitted to checking fraud in Brazil 2008 but failed to appear in court in 2011, leaving the issue unsolved.
In 2010, Santos admitted to checking fraud in Brazil in 2008. However, he did not appear in court in 2011.
In late 2022, Brazilian authorities reopened the investigation.
Santos also has many US judgments for eviction and personal debt. He acknowledged not paying 2010s judgments in 2022.
In 2017, Santos was charged with theft by deception for writing bad checks to dog breeders in the US. In 2021, the charges were withdrawn, and the record was deleted when the checks’ signatures did not match his.
On Thursday, the U.S. House of Representatives Ethics Committee started an inquiry into controversial Republican congressman George Santos, who admitted to lying about his CV.
The committee decided on Tuesday to probe Santos’ 2022 campaign, House comments, financial firm, and sexual misbehavior toward a job applicant.
Santos’s office did not reply to an investigation comment request.
New York’s first-term congressman confesses to falsifying his CV. Santos said he graduated from New York University and Baruch College, but neither school possessed his record. He lied about working at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
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