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Jan 6, 2023 · January 6, 2023 10:48 AM EST. I n the first week of a new Congress plagued with gridlock, New York Republican George Santos sat all alone, snubbed by his peers over lies about his life story...
Mar 8, 2024 · Federal prosecutors say Santos illegally applied to receive unemployment benefits in June 2020, after the program was expanded to help people out of work due to the pandemic. At the time he was ...
Jan 27, 2023 · Embattled freshman Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was expelled on Friday in a bipartisan vote, following a scathing House Ethics Committee report released two weeks ago that described how Santos,...
Dec 26, 2022 · “I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my résumé,” he said, later adding: “We do stupid things in life.”
- Nov. 3, 2020: Santos loses his first bid for Congress to Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi. He concedes two weeks later, on Nov. 17.
- Jan. 6, 2021: Santos speaks at President Donald Trump’s rally in Washington, D.C., which precedes the attack on the U.S. Capitol, claiming his own election was stolen.
- June 10, 2021: Santos announces his second campaign for Congress, running to represent New York’s 3rd Congressional District. His campaign website biography includes that he graduated from Baruch College and was employed as an associate asset manager at Citigroup and at Goldman Sachs.
- Sept. 6, 2022: Santos files his personal financial disclosure report, claiming his assets are as much as $11 million. The massive increase in net worth since his 2020 campaign leads The North Shore Leader, a newspaper on Long Island, to raise questions about his finances.
Dec 1, 2023 · Santos, several weeks later, admitted to fabricating his job experience as well as lying about attending college, telling the New York Post "my sins are embellishing my resume." He later told...
Dec 28, 2022 · - The New York Times. George Santos Is in a Class of His Own. But Other Politicians Have Embellished Their Resumes, Too. Mr. Santos, a Republican representative-elect from Long Island, has...
