New GOP Congressman's entire resume is faked

[Orale 1087]

Wild stuff. 

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html?unlocked_article_code=7I5I5q41cKnRkYl-zR-fvzS4MGHIjgxHizW0sgK6KjzK2Beod0Y1r438o5omNNsqYJfsyPwhDMS9lG8TM36jTy660J7C6WxngiN1CgJVqxRVo1U8_qGj07Vm0aTzt9Okjg10ayO76O1kbU2m8_7OZxg7TcReyMxPi72ErF56r_ah58PigQ4ECa9EeD10xi2Z_lHD7hGyneaiO7zw3njSetmBPSm9pjh4Fn4v4gRYGm0prWYxq9L7cJLzNSdr7CVjSF3CAxXMd912LyyEwYbmB1q47FMcR8Sgc2FxTdKNvPbb80dF9i8KEscBOseK9-tA3QJLDHA1WXJF7IkM4B98zj0mhezTEI4&smid=share-url

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Mr. Santos, a Republican from New York, says he’s the “embodiment of the American dream.” But he seems to have misrepresented a number of his career highlights.

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By Grace Ashford and Michael Gold

Dec. 19, 2022Updated 8:51 a.m. ET

11 MIN READ

George Santos, whose election to Congress on Long Island last month helped Republicans clinch a narrow majority in the House of Representatives, built his candidacy on the notion that he was the “full embodiment of the American dream” and was running to safeguard it for others.

His campaign biography amplified his storybook journey: He is the son of Brazilian immigrants, and the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a non-incumbent. By his account, he catapulted himself from a New York City public college to become a “seasoned Wall Street financier and investor” with a family-owned real estate portfolio of 13 properties and an animal rescue charity that saved more than 2,500 dogs and cats.

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.

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 over $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, 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.

Mr. Santos’s eight-point victory, in a district in northern Long Island and northeast Queens that previously favored Democrats, was considered a mild upset. He had lost decisively in the same district in 2020 to Tom Suozzi, then the Democratic incumbent, and had seemed to be too wedded to former President Donald J. Trump and his stances to flip his fortunes.

His appearance earlier this month at a gala in Manhattan attended by white nationalists and right-wing conspiracy theorists underscored his ties to Mr. Trump’s right-wing base.

At the same time, new revelations uncovered by The Times — including the omission of key information on Mr. Santos’s personal financial disclosures, and criminal charges for check fraud in Brazil — have the potential to create ethical and possibly legal challenges once he takes office.

Mr. Santos did not respond to repeated requests from The Times that he furnish either documents or a résumé with dates that would help to substantiate the claims he made on the campaign trail. He also declined to be interviewed, and neither his lawyer nor Big Dog Strategies, a Republican-oriented political consulting group that handles crisis management, responded to a detailed list of questions.

The lawyer, Joe Murray, said in a short statement that it was “no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at The New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these defamatory allegations.”

A criminal case in Brazil

Mr. Santos has said he was born in Queens to parents who emigrated from Brazil and was raised in the borough. His father, he has said, is Catholic and has roots in Angola. His mother, Fatima Devolder, was descended from migrants who fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine and World War II strife in Belgium. Mr. Santos has described himself as a nonobservant Jew but has also said he is Catholic.

Records show that Mr. Santos’s mother, who died in 2016, lived for a time in the Brazilian city of Niterói, a Rio suburb where she was employed as a nurse. After Mr. Santos obtained a high school equivalency diploma, he apparently also spent some time there.

In 2008, when Mr. Santos was 19, he stole the checkbook of a man his mother was caring for, according to Brazilian court records uncovered by The Times. Police and court records show that Mr. Santos used the checkbook to make fraudulent purchases, including a pair of shoes. Two years later, Mr. Santos confessed to the crime and was later charged.

 

 

The court and local prosecutor in Brazil confirmed the case remains unresolved. Mr. Santos did not respond to an official summons, and a court representative could not find him at his given address, records show.

That period in Brazil overlapped with when Mr. Santos said he was attending Baruch College, where he has said he was awarded a bachelor’s degree in economics and finance. But Baruch College said it was unable to find records of Mr. Santos — using multiple variations of his first, middle and last names — having graduated in 2010, as he has claimed.

A biography of Mr. Santos on the website of the National Republican Congressional Committee, which is the House Republicans’ campaign arm, also includes a stint at New York University. The claim is not repeated elsewhere, and an N.Y.U. spokesman found no attendance records matching his name and birth date.

 

 

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After he said he graduated from college, Mr. Santos began working at Citigroup, eventually becoming “an associate asset manager” in the company’s real estate division, according to a version of his biography that was on his campaign site as recently as April.

A spokeswoman for Citigroup, Danielle Romero-Apsilos, said the company could not confirm Mr. Santos’s employment. She also said she was unfamiliar with Mr. Santos’s self-described job title and noted that Citi had sold off its asset management operations in 2005.

A previous campaign biography of Mr. Santos indicates that he left Citi to work at a Turkey-based hospitality technology company, MetGlobal, and other profiles mention a brief role at Goldman Sachs. MetGlobal executives could not be reached for comment. Abbey Collins, a spokeswoman at Goldman Sachs, said she could not locate any record of Mr. Santos’s having worked at the company.

 

 

Attempts to find co-workers who could confirm his employment were unsuccessful, in part because Mr. Santos has not provided specific dates for his time at these companies.

He has also asserted that his professional life had intersected with tragedy: He said in an interview on WNYC that his company, which he did not identify, “lost four employees” at the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in June 2016. But a Times review of news coverage and obituaries found that none of the 49 victims appear to have worked at the various firms named in his biography.

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After two evictions, a reversal of fortunes

As he was purportedly climbing the corporate ranks, Mr. Santos claimed to have founded Friends of Pets United, which he ran for five years beginning in 2013. As a candidate, he cited the group as proof of a history of philanthropic work.

Though remnants of the group and its efforts could be found on Facebook, the I.R.S. was not able to find any record showing that the group held the tax-exempt status that Mr. Santos claimed. Neither the New York nor New Jersey attorney general’s offices could find records of Friends of Pets United having been registered as a charity.

Friends of Pets United held at least one fund-raiser with a New Jersey animal rescue group in 2017; the invitation promised drinks, donated raffle items and a live band. Mr. Santos charged $50 for entry, according to an online fund-raising page that promoted the event. But the event’s beneficiary, who asked for anonymity for fear of retribution, said that she never received any of the funds, with Mr. Santos only offering repeated excuses for not forwarding the money.

During that same period, Mr. Santos was also facing apparent financial difficulties. In November 2015, a landlord in the Whitestone neighborhood of Queens filed an eviction suit in housing court accusing Mr. Santos of owing $2,250 in unpaid rent.

The landlord, Maria Tulumba, said in an interview that Mr. Santos had been a “nice guy” and a “respectful” tenant. But she said that he had financial problems that led to the eviction case, declining to elaborate further. The judge ruled in favor of Ms. Tulumba.

 

 

In May 2017, Mr. Santos faced another eviction case, from a rent-stabilized apartment in Sunnyside, Queens. Mr. Santos’s landlord accused him of owing more than $10,000 in rent stretching over five months and said in court records that one of his tenant’s checks had bounced. A warrant of eviction was issued, and Mr. Santos was fined $12,208 in a civil judgment.

By early 2021, Mr. Santos was becoming vocal on housing issues but not from a tenant perspective. During New York’s pandemic-era eviction moratorium, Mr. Santos said on Twitter that he was a landlord affected by the freeze.

“Will we landlords ever be able to take back possession of our property?” he wrote.

Mr. Santos said that he and his family had not been paid rent on their 13 properties in nearly a year, adding that he had offered rental assistance to some tenants, but found that some were “flat out taking advantage of the situation.”

But Mr. Santos has not listed properties in New York on required financial disclosure forms for either of his campaigns; the only real estate that he mentioned was an apartment in Rio de Janeiro. Property records databases in New York City and Nassau County did not show any documents or deeds associated with him, immediate family members or the Devolder Organization.

It is unclear what might have led to Mr. Santos’s apparent reversal in fortunes. By the time he launched his first run for the House, in November 2019, Mr. Santos was working in business development at a company called LinkBridge Investors that says it connects investors with fund managers.

Mr. Santos eventually became a vice president there, according to a company document and a May 2020 campaign disclosure form where he declared earnings of $55,000 in salary, commission and bonuses.

 

 

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Mr. Santos, campaigning before Election Day, captured the race for the Third Congressional District, a contest he lost in 2020. Credit...Mary Altaffer/Associated Press

Over the next two years, Mr. Santos bounced between several ill-fated ventures. As he ran for Congress, he moved from LinkBridge to take on a new role as regional director of Harbor City Capital, a Florida-based investment company.

 

 

Harbor City, which attracted investors with YouTube videos and guarantees of double-digit returns, soon garnered attention from the S.E.C., which filed a lawsuit accusing the company and its founder of running a $17 million Ponzi scheme. Neither Mr. Santos nor other colleagues were named in the lawsuit, and Mr. Santos has publicly denied having any knowledge of the scheme.

Two weeks later, a handful of former Harbor City executives formed a company called Red Strategies USA, as reported by The Daily Beast. Corporate filings listed the Devolder Organization as a partial owner — even though the papers to register Devolder would not be filed for another week.

Red Strategies was short lived: Federal campaign records show it did political consulting work for at least one politician — Tina Forte, a Republican who unsuccessfully challenged Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in November — before it was dissolved in September for failing to file an annual report.

The Devolder Organization seems to have flourished as Mr. Santos ran for office. According to Mr. Santos’s disclosures, his work there earned him a salary of $750,000. By the time it too was dissolved — also for failing to file an annual report — Mr. Santos reported that it was worth more than a million dollars.

A November win raises new questions

Mr. Santos announced his intent to make a second run at Congress almost immediately after the end of his first. He figured to again be an underdog in the district, which largely favored President Biden in 2020.

But things began to swing in his favor. Republicans in Nassau performed well in local elections in 2021. Mr. Suozzi opted to not run for re-election in 2022, instead launching an unsuccessful bid for governor. And with high turnout expected in a midterm election that also featured a governor’s race, Mr. Santos’s race became more competitive — and his campaign stance became more tempered.

 

 

During his first campaign, Mr. Santos, an adherent of Mr. Trump, opposed mask mandates and abortion access, and defended law enforcement against what he called the “made-up concept” of police brutality.

But during his second campaign, older posts on Twitter were suddenly deleted, including his claims of election fraud that he said cost Mr. Trump the election in 2020. In March 2021, he resurfaced the claim, writing on Twitter in a since-deleted post, “My new campaign team has 4 former loyal Trump staffers that pushed him over the finish line TWICE, yes I said TWICE!”

Mr. Santos also briefly claimed without evidence in another since-deleted tweet that he had been a victim of fraud in his first congressional race, at one point using the hashtag #StopTheSteal, a reference to a slogan associated with Mr. Trump’s false election claims.

And while he previously boasted that he attended the Jan. 6 rally (but, he has said, not the riot) in support of Mr. Trump in Washington, he has since ducked questions about his attendance and a prior claim that he had written “a nice check for a law firm” to assist some rioters with their legal bills.

Mr. Santos’s improved circumstances are evident on the official financial disclosure form he filed in September with the House of Representatives, though the document still leaves questions about his finances.

In the disclosure, Mr. Santos said that he was the Devolder Organization’s sole owner and managing member. He reported that the company, which is based in New York but was registered in Florida, paid him a $750,000 salary. He also earned dividends from Devolder totaling somewhere between $1 million and $5 million — even though Devolder’s estimated value was listed in the same range.

The Devolder Organization has no public-facing assets or other property that The Times could locate. Mr. Santos’s disclosure form did not provide information about clients that would have contributed to such a haul — a seeming violation of the requirement to disclose any compensation in excess of $5,000 from a single source.

 

 

Kedric Payne, the vice president of the watchdog Campaign Legal Center, and a former deputy chief counsel for the Office of Congressional Ethics, was one of three election law experts consulted by The Times who took issue with the lack of detail.

“This report raises red flags because no clients are reported for a multimillion-dollar client services company,” Mr. Payne said, adding: “The congressman-elect should explain what’s going on.”

The Times attempted to interview Mr. Santos at the address where he is registered to vote and that was associated with a campaign donation he made in October, but a person at that address said on Sunday that she was not familiar with him.

Material omissions or misrepresentations on personal financial disclosures are considered a federal crime under the False Statements Act, which carries a maximum penalty of $250,000 and five years in prison. But the bar for these cases is high, given that the statute requires violations to be “knowing and willful.”

The House of Representatives has several internal mechanisms for investigating ethics violations, issuing civil or administrative penalties when it does. Those bodies tend to act largely in egregious cases, particularly if the behavior took place before the member was inaugurated.

Campaign disclosures show that Mr. Santos lived large as a candidate, buying shirts for his staff from Brooks Brothers and charging the campaign for meals at the restaurant inside Bergdorf Goodman.

Mr. Santos also spent a considerable amount of money traveling — charging his campaign roughly $40,000 in flights to places that included California, Texas and Florida. All told, Mr. Santos spent more than $17,000 in Florida, mostly on restaurants and hotels, including at least one evening at the Breakers, a five-star hotel and resort in Palm Beach, three miles up the road from Mar-a-Lago, Mr. Trump’s private club and residence.

Manuela Andreoni contributed reporting from Rio de Janeiro, Jay Root contributed reporting from Albany, N.Y., and Susan C. Beachy contributed research.

 

 

Grace Ashford is a reporter on the Metro desk covering New York State politics and government from the Albany bureau. She previously worked on the Investigations team. @gr_ashford

 

 

[Biff Tannen 45500]

This is my shocked face.

[Dbeasy 14970]

This will result in…nothing. 

[Brandywine 1313]

Seems like the only crooks who are trying to steal elections are Republicans, not liberals.

[ConferenceRoom 6130]

A most timely exposé.  

[RPM 26230]

[Red Five 40666]

12 minutes ago, Brandywine said:

Seems like the only crooks who are trying to steal elections are Republicans, not liberals.

Yeah weird huh. It's almost like the accusations they make, are in reality more like confessions. 

[High Plains Drifter 10981]

20 minutes ago, ConferenceRoom said:

A most timely exposé.  

 

good job new york times.

 

What we really need is some sort of Office of the Devil's Advocate, that ruthlessly investigates all public office candidates, with the express intent of finding dirt. Then publish the results of those investigations BEFORE THE FUCKING ELECTION.

 

 

[Chuckie Finster 22600]

New York Democratic Party oppo research team this morning.

[DigglerontheHoof 21068]

Republicans are scumbags and Democrats are inept.  Example 1,398,345,234

[Nice Guy Eddie 13414]

"The complete lie about my past was only a clerical error made by a low level staffer, who has been appropriately punished." - expected response.

Given the slim GOP House majority I doubt we hear any criticism or even acknowledgment of this situation by the GOP. If asked they will feign ignorance of the situation.

[Foosters 17734]

What's the recall procedure in NY?

[ChuckNorrisActionJeans 2659]

Wow that's not even his real name either. Actual name is Santos L. Halper 

[HenryJames 65890]

[tx 3 putt 76414]

Hahahaha 

 

[elfenix 34176]

3 hours ago, Chuckie Finster said:

New York Democratic Party oppo research team this morning.

looks like they did their job, whoever is in marketing over at democrats, inc., just sucks ass at their job (shocker!)

 

 

 

 

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

So was it more of a case of “the D candidate will win this district so no need to spend time and money to get this information to the voters”?

[HenryJames 65890]

 

[elfenix 34176]

"here's a statement from my lawyer, who definitely signs his name 'Esq.'"

[Foosters 17734]

As Abraham Lincoln once said, "if you have enemies, good, the enemies of the good are the enemies of we all." - Michael Scott 

[Huckleberry 32704]

17 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

"Excuse me, Mr. Murray Esquire sir? Did you forget to include the part where you deny anything that was reported? Because I couldn't help but notice that your statement does not deny anything that was reported."

[Firemans4Horn 17839]

28 minutes ago, HenryJames said:

 

[YGIFS 19449]

Baruch College, Citigroup, Friends of Pets United, the Brazilian government, and Goldman all got together and conspired to deny that George Santos ever existed at any of those places?  You know that totally not new New York Times tactic where they could be easily proven wrong by walking in a diploma, HR records, charity tax filings, etc?   

[Foosters 17734]

31 minutes ago, Huckleberry said:

"Excuse me, Mr. Murray Esquire sir? Did you forget to include the part where you deny anything that was reported? Because I couldn't help but notice that your statement does not deny anything that was reported."

[Chooky 13302]

[RDCanecutter 26287]

So, Brazil got all slackadaisical about the check book thievery case because they didn't find him at his address.

I assume they have an address now?

[Dr. Teeth 5832]

Probably isn’t even gay. 

[YGIFS 19449]

1 minute ago, Dr. Teeth said:

Probably isn’t even gay. 

Yeah, but like his bullshit MBA from NYU...you have to admire his commitment to the role.  

This whole con...it's like Frank Abagnale from "Catch Me if You Can"...only instead of forging his way into Amy Adams' heart...he heads off to the Chelsea to suck his way to the GOP nomination. 

And Santos' classmate in the Finance Dept. at Baruch College in the 2000s?  Another upstanding American who was brought down by you darn Democrats---Martin Shkreli.  This fucking timeline...

[SimonBolivar 10937]

[atomheartbevo 89452]

20 minutes ago, YGIFS said:

Baruch College, Citigroup, Friends of Pets United, the Brazilian government, and Goldman all got together and conspired to deny that George Santos ever existed at any of those places?  You know that totally not new New York Times tactic where they could be easily proven wrong by walking in a diploma, HR records, charity tax filings, etc?   

Take a lesson from God King Emperor Donald Trump.

[Nivek 16862]

12 minutes ago, atomheartbevo said:

Take a lesson from God King Emperor Donald Trump.

I think he tried that. 

[Irwin F Fletcher 3550]

Shouldn't the first clue have been the made up college? Baruch College? That just sounds fake.

[YGIFS 19449]

3 minutes ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

Shouldn't the first clue have been the made up college? Baruch College? That just sounds fake.

Baruch Atah Adonai.  Tell me you don't spend much time around New Yorkers without telling me you don't spend much time around New Yorkers.  

It's actually a public school in the CUNY system.  But obviously has deep Jewish roots in Manhattan.  

I'm guessing he picked it for a reason to lie about.  I am now morbidly curious what the rationale was/is.  I mean you're running for office in New York, you're gonna meet somebody on the campaign trail that went to Baruch and they're gonna ask you about your time there.  It's a pretty big school with lots of alums on Long Island...... that was a very strange risk to take.  Never mind the NYU MBA.  And the cake-taker is telling people you worked at Goldman.  That's like crossfit or veganism in Manhattan, 30 seconds after meeting sombody that worked there, they'll find a way to work it into the conversation. 

[Irwin F Fletcher 3550]

Baruch Atah Adonai.  Tell me you don't spend much time around New Yorkers without telling me you don't spend much time around New Yorkers.  
It's actually a public school in the CUNY system.  But obviously has deep Jewish roots in Manhattan. 

Well not since the early 90's......still sounds fake.

Glad to see my old team getting the job done, even if it's a fake sounding school.

[YGIFS 19449]

Santos should have gone with the Akeem bit, "I go to the University!"

"Which one?"

"Uh, the University of the United States."

"Really?  I've never heard of it."

"It's very small.  We don't even have a baseball team."

"Well we've an extra ticket to the Baruch, Merchant Marine game tomorrow night if you wanna come."

 

[Bullneck 18987]

23 minutes ago, Irwin F Fletcher said:

Shouldn't the first clue have been the made up college? Baruch College? That just sounds fake.

Baruch College is part of the City of New York system. I think you can get a decent education there if you try, but the idea that Goldman Sachs and Citigroup are going to hire him seems far fetched when there are plenty of other candidates around.  But hey, he was rich and all so maybe he fit right in.  Then again, if they have all this money why go to CUNY when Columbia would have fit the story better?

Even the lies don't seem very well though out.  

[TexArcher 37525]

Tucker Carlson will convince 40% of the country that the liberal media is running a smear campaign on this guy, including hacking of government records and university databases to make him look like a fraud.  And they'll lap it up.

They can do literally whatever they want.

[YGIFS 19449]

He could produce a hard copy diploma, photos of his graduation, a textbook or paper he saved from undergrad, etc.  Any number of physical objects that can't be hacked from a database.  I mean yeah, some schools don't have the best cybersecurity.  But there's no way the HR files of Goldman Sachs got hacked and nobody knew about it until now?  Or worse Citigroup, you know the giant issuer of credit cards and related cybersecurity.  

But Tucker will say, "Congressman, I applaud you for not stooping down to their level and trying to prove what you know in your heart to be true.  If you give into their ridiculous demands of proof now, they'll keep coming after you in D.C. for proof of other things."  

and yep, it'll work on 35% of 'em.  

[Hornius Emeritus 12420]

It gets better. Santos received 55 thousand dollars (that we know of) in campaign funds from the cousin and cash handler for one of Russia’s most notorious oligarchs, Viktor Vekselberg, after labeling the Ukrainians a totalitarian regime. 


https://www.thedailybeast.com/republican-george-devolder-santos-got-cash-from-andrew-intrater-cousin-of-russian-oligarch-viktor-vekselberg

[hpslugga 4044]

20 hours ago, Brandywine said:

Seems like the only crooks who are trying to steal elections are Republicans, not liberals.

BUT BUT BOTH SIDES!!!

[Hornius Emeritus 12420]

You all may remember Andrew Intrater, Viktor Vekselberg's cash handler, as the man who made hundreds of calls to Michael Cohen during Trump's 2016 campaign and gave Cohen's firm 500k.

More greatness: in his 2020 financial disclosure, George Santos declared no assets or earned income in his 2020 report, and that his only compensation in excess of $5,000 from a single source came from a commission bonus:

https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2020/10035760.pdf



In his 2022 financial disclosure,  Santos declared that he had assets worth between $2.6 million and $11.25 million. It also said he had income from a family business, the Devolder Organization, between $1 million to $5 million and a salary of $750,000.

https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2022/10050385.pdf


 

[RPM 26230]

16 minutes ago, hpslugga said:

BUT BUT BOTH SIDES!!!

To be fair, you used to be able to say that until Kyrsten quit the Dems.

[atomheartbevo 89452]

34 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

You all may remember Andrew Intrater, Viktor Vekselberg's cash handler, as the man who made hundreds of calls to Michael Cohen during Trump's 2016 campaign and gave Cohen's firm 500k.

More greatness: in his 2020 financial disclosure, George Santos declared no assets or earned income in his 2020 report, and that his only compensation in excess of $5,000 from a single source came from a commission bonus:

https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2020/10035760.pdf


In his 2022 financial disclosure,  Santos declared that he had assets worth between $2.6 million and $11.25 million. It also said he had income from a family business, the Devolder Organization, between $1 million to $5 million and a salary of $750,000.

https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2022/10050385.pdf
 

He’s not even trying to cover up his Russian ties or his shady dealings.  Because it’s 2022, and he doesn’t have to, because voters don’t care.

[Macanudo 12928]

45 minutes ago, Hornius Emeritus said:

You all may remember Andrew Intrater, Viktor Vekselberg's cash handler, as the man who made hundreds of calls to Michael Cohen during Trump's 2016 campaign and gave Cohen's firm 500k.

More greatness: in his 2020 financial disclosure, George Santos declared no assets or earned income in his 2020 report, and that his only compensation in excess of $5,000 from a single source came from a commission bonus:

https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2020/10035760.pdf



In his 2022 financial disclosure,  Santos declared that he had assets worth between $2.6 million and $11.25 million. It also said he had income from a family business, the Devolder Organization, between $1 million to $5 million and a salary of $750,000.

https://disclosures-clerk.house.gov/public_disc/financial-pdfs/2022/10050385.pdf


 

I hate the world we live in where if someone questions this they just get "How dare you ask that kind of thing.   You're just a rabble-rouse and can't be trusted."

 

[horn4life 3756]

I prefer to think of this candidate as simply a natural extension of the "morals and principles" held by the Republican Party as a whole.

[Js1 85117]

14 hours ago, Dr. Teeth said:

Probably isn’t even gay. 

He's also hideous, so I highly doubt he is 100% Brazilian from both his parents.  I've seen the Brazilians, they ain't that.  @SubliminalHorn can back me up, hot gay Brazilian men don't look like that. 

[PenelopeWitherspoon 19093]

13 hours ago, YGIFS said:

Santos should have gone with the Akeem bit, "I go to the University!"

"Which one?"

"Uh, the University of the United States."

"Really?  I've never heard of it."

"It's very small.  We don't even have a baseball team."

"Well we've an extra ticket to the Baruch, Merchant Marine game tomorrow night if you wanna come."

 

The New York Democratic Party is getting lambasted over this.  What a shitshow.

[SubliminalHorn 6675]

8 minutes ago, Js1 said:

He's also hideous, so I highly doubt he is 100% Brazilian from both his parents.  I've seen the Brazilians, they ain't that.  @SubliminalHorn can back me up, hot gay Brazilian men don't look like that. 

Brazilian men are a different breed. Some of the hottest out there

[Red Five 40666]

Present company excluded.

[Pato del Muerto 52342]

13 hours ago, YGIFS said:

He could produce a hard copy diploma, photos of his graduation, a textbook or paper he saved from undergrad, etc.  Any number of physical objects that can't be hacked from a database.  I mean yeah, some schools don't have the best cybersecurity.  But there's no way the HR files of Goldman Sachs got hacked and nobody knew about it until now?  Or worse Citigroup, you know the giant issuer of credit cards and related cybersecurity.  

But Tucker will say, "Congressman, I applaud you for not stooping down to their level and trying to prove what you know in your heart to be true.  If you give into their ridiculous demands of proof now, they'll keep coming after you in D.C. for proof of other things."  

and yep, it'll work on 35% of 'em.  

Liberals didn’t need proof of Obama’s birth, so they shouldn’t need proof of anything here.  Just take his word for it! (Stares at camera)