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Well this is an interesting one. Incoming Republican Congressman George Santos of NY-3 has a number of questions on his biography in which there seems to be no records to indicate. This is my district FWIW.
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Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Santos’ campaign biography, told The New York Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College, which 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 Santos claimed, a tax-exempt organization: The Internal Revenue Service could locate no record of a registered charity with that name.
His financial disclosure forms suggest a life of some wealth. He lent his campaign more than $700,000 during the midterm election, has donated thousands of dollars to other candidates in the last two years and reported a $750,000 salary and more than $1 million in dividends from his company, the Devolder Organization.
Yet the firm, which has no public website or LinkedIn page, is something of a mystery. On a campaign website, 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 Santos’ disclosures did not reveal any clients, an omission three election law experts said could be problematic if such clients exist.
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I read the entire article carefully.
It CERTAINLY appears he's extremely shady with his information, and the biggest question comes up - WHERE did his new-found money come from?
All the other stuff, lying about where he lives, lying about working for different respectable places, lying about his degree, appearing to hold a lucrative fundraising gala for an animal rescue org and then pocketing the entire proceeds, lying about being a landlord, lying about contributing to the defense of the 1/6 rioters, is just graft and sleaziness.
Where did his 5 million bucks he claims to have been paid actually COME from?
And a second part of the question, what can the Republican party now do, to put a halt on his taking office?
The bigger question is how he got away with all those lies for this long......
In 2020 he was an unknown taking on a pretty safe Incumbent and no one paid attention to him. This year he was running for an open seat against an opponent who ran a poor campaign and obviously did a terrible job on oppo research.
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