“I am embarrassed and sorry for embellishing my CV […]. We do stupid things in life. said George Santos at New York Post. Elected in November from New York state, the 34-year-old Republican still intends to sit in the House of Representatives from January.
In an interview granted to the conservative tabloid on December 26, Santos admits he does not have it “never worked directly” for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, on Wall Street. He regrets “poorly chosen words”, stating that he actually worked for a company that dealt with the two financial giants.
He also admits that he never earned a degree, while an official biography presents him as a former student of New York University and Baruch College, with a degree in finance and economics, he recalls The New York Times, who discovered these lies.
George Santos also admits that he doesn’t own his home, despite saying he owns a real estate portfolio of 13 properties. Furthermore, the future deputy reveals that he has been married to a woman for years, he who has become one “the first openly gay Republican to win a seat in the House of Representatives,” insert The New York Times.
A “stunning” example of forgery
Instead, he resolutely denies having committed a crime, “while the New York Times court documents uncovered in Brazil showing Santos was accused of fraud as a young man,” reminiscent of everyday life. He is identified there “with his full name, his date of birth and the names of his parents”.
It also refutes the chain’s allegations Cnn and the Jewish magazine The Forward, who falsely led to believe that he had Jewish ancestry, stating on his campaign website that his grandparents were born in Europe and fled the Holocaust in Brazil during World War II.
To pour The New York Times, this whole story is “one of the most stunning examples of a future parliamentarian falsifying essential elements of his biography. Santos maintained his lies during two consecutive campaigns to enter Congress, the first failed.”
