Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) fabricated different components of his life story over time in what gave the impression to be a sample of telling elaborate lies throughout his two congressional campaigns, in keeping with new reporting from CNN.
The New York Republican is beneath fireplace and beneath investigation by Lengthy Island prosecutors after he admitted on Monday that — not like he beforehand claimed — he isn't Jewish, didn't graduate from faculty and didn't work at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.
Within the report printed Wednesday, CNN’s KFile listed extra cases of Santos making false claims about his background and identification, together with utilizing a “Jewish” alias to fundraise for a pet charity and claiming he went to a prestigious New York prep college that has no document of him ever being a pupil.
Santos’ marketing campaign didn't instantly return requests for remark.
In 2015, he reportedly used the identify Anthony Zabrovsky to function a GoFundMe marketing campaign for a pet charity. That web page not exists.
Santos informed Fox Information Digital in February that his maternal grandparents modified their Jewish final identify from Zabrovsky.
“We don’t carry the Ukrainian final identify, for lots of people who're descendants of World Warfare II refuges or survivors of the Holocaust, a whole lot of names or paperwork have been modified within the identify of survival,” he stated.
Nonetheless, in keeping with CNN, which enlisted a genealogist to investigate Santos’ household tree, there’s no indication Santos has any Jewish or Ukrainian heritage or that his relations modified their names alongside the way in which.
In one other interview with CNN, he stated his mother was a white immigrant from Belgium. His mom was born in Brazil, the place her household has lived because the late 1800s.
He additionally seems to have informed extra lies about his education.
In a marketing campaign biography from Santos’ unsuccessful 2019 congressional run, he claimed he “started Horace Mann preparatory college within the Bronx, nevertheless, didn't graduate from Horace Mann as a consequence of monetary difficulties for his household.”
A spokesperson for the college informed CNN it had no data of Santos ever attending.
Santos additionally seems to have informed various tales about how and when his mom died. In July 2021, he tweeted that “9/11 claimed my moms life.” 5 months later, he stated that “December twenty third marks 5 years I misplaced my finest buddy and mentor. Mother you'll dwell without end in my coronary heart.”
On his marketing campaign web site, he says his mom was within the South Tower on Sept. 11, 2001, however survived the terrorist assaults and “handed away a couple of years later when she misplaced her battle to most cancers.” His mother, Fatima Devolder, seems to have died greater than 15 years in a while Dec. 23, 2016.
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