In a surprise to nobody...

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.

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

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.  

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.

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.