In a surprise to nobody...

by **Turtleneck** 2022-12-19, 09:36

A Trump-loving Republican recently elected to the House might have fabricated his entire life story...and somehow, the Democrats missed all of it. He is one of the people who recently dined with white supremacists and European fascists.

But a New York Times review of public documents and court filings from the United States and Brazil, as well as various attempts to verify claims that Mr. Santos, 34, made on the campaign trail, calls into question key parts of the résumé that he sold to voters.

Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Mr. Santos’s campaign biography, told The Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College, which Mr. Santos has said he graduated from in 2010, could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduating that year.

There was also little evidence that his animal rescue group, Friends of Pets United, was, as Mr. Santos claimed, a tax-exempt organization: The Internal Revenue Service could locate no record of a registered charity with that name.

Yet the firm, which has no public website or LinkedIn page, is something of a mystery. On a campaign website, Mr. Santos once described Devolder as his “family’s firm” that managed $80 million in assets. On his congressional financial disclosure, he described it as a capital introduction consulting company, a type of boutique firm that serves as a liaison between investment funds and deep-pocketed investors. But Mr. Santos’s disclosures did not reveal any clients, an omission three election law experts said could be problematic if such clients exist.

And while Mr. Santos has described a family fortune in real estate, he has not disclosed, nor could The Times find, records of his properties.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html

by AvgMSUJoe 2022-12-19, 10:03

So, that's long island, not some upstate podunk district.

And not even his opponent (let alone the party) did a cursory background check on him?

To be fair, in a really red district, one piece of shit is the same as any other... just a different face on the exact same output.

by **GRR Spartan** 2022-12-19, 10:05

Just read that investigative piece.

The GOP just elected a real Manchurian Candidate complete with a Russian donor connection.

Other than:
Santos being unable to prove previous employment;running a non-profit that’s not registered;
having no record of education NYU and Baruch College, schools Santos claims to have attended;
refusing to explain how he could have attended and earned a degree in economics and finance from Baruch College when Brazilian court records show he stole a checkbook and used it for personal purchases

https://theisland360.com/featured/cousin-of-russian-oligarch-donates-nearly-30k-to-devolder-santos-campaign/?wallit_nosession=1

But But But Santos is another persecuted Republican.

by **DWags** 2022-12-19, 10:45

Welp, I'm guessing the new leadership will put him on some kind of nuclear secrets committee or some national security committee. Whe the dems and the general public start to complain, the republicans will say something about our tears taste good, and we're snowflakes and basically say "fuck you" to us.

So, there it is.

by **steveschneider** 2022-12-19, 11:06

In defense of the democrats with the long list of racists and hate mongerers (Proud Boy Leader Enrico Tarrio, Alex Jones commander of the InfoWars battle tank, holocaust denier Nicholas Fuentes, Proud Boys founder Gavin McCinnes, Hitler admirer Candace Owens, white nationalist Anne Coulter, Q supporter Marjorie Taylor Greene and the list goes on) it's understandable that the DNC might have missed out on this one nazis false history.

by RQA 2022-12-19, 12:07

Turtleneck wrote:A Trump-loving Republican recently elected to the House might have fabricated his entire life story...

And then we have the guy who says he got his uncle the purple heart while in an elected office. It turns out the uncle died before the guy was in the office and there is no record of the uncle ever receiving the purple heart.

by **Motown Spartan** 2022-12-19, 13:28

Can’t catch every Republic fraud, there’s just too many of them so we just have to assume they all are.

by **Turtleneck** 2022-12-19, 13:37

RQA wrote:
Turtleneck wrote:A Trump-loving Republican recently elected to the House might have fabricated his entire life story...

And then we have the guy who says he got his uncle the purple heart while in an elected office. It turns out the uncle died before the guy was in the office and there is no record of the uncle ever receiving the purple heart.

Which is the same as falsifying a college degree, falsifying employment history, falsifying business claims and net worth, and falsifying claims about operating a charitable organization. Maybe falsify is the wrong word. Maybe fabricate is a better word since most of it was probably made up as part of a con. The GOP has become a party of cons, a bunch of fancy street hustlers, but I am glad they can count on you for your loyal support.

by **DWags** 2022-12-19, 14:23

Turtleneck wrote:
RQA wrote:

And then we have the guy who says he got his uncle the purple heart while in an elected office. It turns out the uncle died before the guy was in the office and there is no record of the uncle ever receiving the purple heart.

Which is the same as falsifying a college degree, falsifying employment history, falsifying business claims and net worth, and falsifying claims about operating a charitable organization. Maybe falsify is the wrong word. Maybe fabricate is a better word since most of it was probably made up as part of a con. The GOP has become a party of cons, a bunch of fancy street hustlers, but I am glad they can count on you for your loyal support.

They’d rather lie and pretend they’re right than be honest and maybe lose a point. You cant tell me It’s how they were raised. And as far as them changing their ways? No way that happens.

by **GRR Spartan** 2022-12-19, 14:59

Piece of shit Everybody Picks on Me Russian Quisling Agent steps right up to divert and try to change the subject from a guy in Long Island elected to Congress as a Republican who is just as phony.

Why? Because like the Russian Quisling Agent, Santos has his marching orders to help upend American Democracy.

by **Trapper Gus** 2022-12-20, 19:15

RQA wrote:
Turtleneck wrote:A Trump-loving Republican recently elected to the House might have fabricated his entire life story...

And then we have the guy who says he got his uncle the purple heart while in an elected office. It turns out the uncle died before the guy was in the office and there is no record of the uncle ever receiving the purple heart.

What does someone being dead have to do with their being awarded a military medal?

by **Turtleneck** 2022-12-21, 18:20

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