Republican George Santos, who flipped a U.S. House seat in New York from blue to red, has admitted to making up key aspects of his educational, professional, and personal background.
about the congressman-elect after the New York Times reported that Santos misled the public on key aspects of his life, including his education and employment history.
Santos confirmed some aspects of the report to the Post but insisted that he will show up in January to be sworn into Congress. "I am not a criminal," Santos told the Post in an interview. "This [controversy] will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good."Santos apparently misrepresented his education, employment history, and even personal background in his official bio that appeared on his campaign website.
He claimed that he graduated from CUNY's Baruch College, worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, runs a family investment firm, owns multiple properties, and his grandparents escaped the Holocaust."I didn't graduate from any institution of higher learning. I'm embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume," Santos said. "We do stupid things in life."
He also said he is Catholic, not Jewish, and that his grandmother told stories about being Jewish and later converting to Catholicism. The Post didn't report is Santos addressed his previous claims that his grandparents fled from the Nazis during World War II.Santos admitted that he never worked for either Goldman Sachs or Citigroup but that he worked for a firm that did business with them.
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