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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 6, 2023 · Santos has admitted that he lied about much of his personal history and resume, but senior House Republicans have remained largely silent.
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May 12, 2023 · Representative George Santos of New York was forcibly expelled from office by a two-thirds vote of Congress on Friday, making him the first person in more than a century to be expelled without a...
- Graduating from Baruch College. Santos claims that in 2010 he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance from Baruch College, a public university in New York City.
- Having Jewish grandparents. This lie feels especially egregious. Santos says his grandparents survived the Holocaust as Ukrainian Jewish refugees from Belgium.
- Losing employees in the Pulse nightclub shooting. During an interview with WNYC while campaigning, Santos said “people that work for me” were impacted during the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando back in 2016.
- Running an animal charity. Friends of Pets is a charity that Santos claims he founded from 2013 to 2018, which acted as an animal rescue operation that rescued 2,400 dogs and 280 cats.
- 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.
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...
Dec 26, 2022 · Ending a weeklong silence, Representative-elect George Santos admitted on Monday to a sizable list of falsehoods about his professional background, educational history and property ownership.
