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class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-U.S._House_of_Representatives" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#U.S._House_of_Representatives"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4</span> <span>U.S. House of Representatives</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-U.S._House_of_Representatives-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle U.S. House of Representatives subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-U.S._House_of_Representatives-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Elections" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Elections"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1</span> <span>Elections</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Elections-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-2020_campaign" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2020_campaign"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.1</span> <span>2020 campaign</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2020_campaign-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Refusal_to_accept_election_results" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Refusal_to_accept_election_results"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.2</span> <span>Refusal to accept election results</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Refusal_to_accept_election_results-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2022_campaign" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2022_campaign"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.3</span> <span>2022 campaign</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2022_campaign-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-2024_campaign" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#2024_campaign"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.1.4</span> <span>2024 campaign</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-2024_campaign-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Tenure" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Tenure"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.2</span> <span>Tenure</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Tenure-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Expulsion_resolutions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Expulsion_resolutions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">4.3</span> <span>Expulsion resolutions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Expulsion_resolutions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Political_positions" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Political_positions"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5</span> <span>Political positions</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Political_positions-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-False_biographical_statements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#False_biographical_statements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>False biographical statements</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-False_biographical_statements-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle False biographical statements subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-False_biographical_statements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Family" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Family"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Family</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Family-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Mother" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mother"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1.1</span> <span>Mother</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mother-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Education" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Education"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Education</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Education-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Employment" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Employment"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Employment</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Employment-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Residence" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Residence"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4</span> <span>Residence</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Residence-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Victimhood" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Victimhood"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5</span> <span>Victimhood</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Victimhood-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Health" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Health"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.6</span> <span>Health</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Health-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Charitable_work" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Charitable_work"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.7</span> <span>Charitable work</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Charitable_work-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Campaign_finance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Campaign_finance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Campaign finance</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Campaign_finance-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Campaign finance subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Campaign_finance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Financial_disclosures" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Financial_disclosures"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Financial disclosures</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Financial_disclosures-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Campaign_spending" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Campaign_spending"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Campaign spending</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Campaign_spending-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Donations_to_other_candidates" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Donations_to_other_candidates"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Donations to other candidates</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Donations_to_other_candidates-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Unitemized_expenses" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Unitemized_expenses"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4</span> <span>Unitemized expenses</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Unitemized_expenses-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Il_Bacco_restaurant" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Il_Bacco_restaurant"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.5</span> <span>Il Bacco restaurant</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Il_Bacco_restaurant-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Political_action_committee" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Political_action_committee"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.6</span> <span>Political action committee</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Political_action_committee-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-FEC_investigations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#FEC_investigations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.7</span> <span>FEC investigations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-FEC_investigations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Campaign_treasurer" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Campaign_treasurer"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.7.1</span> <span>Campaign treasurer</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Campaign_treasurer-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alleged_use_of_fictitious_donors_and_donations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alleged_use_of_fictitious_donors_and_donations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.8</span> <span>Alleged use of fictitious donors and donations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alleged_use_of_fictitious_donors_and_donations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Alleged_credit_card_fraud_and_misuse_of_WinRed" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Alleged_credit_card_fraud_and_misuse_of_WinRed"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.9</span> <span>Alleged credit card fraud and misuse of WinRed</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Alleged_credit_card_fraud_and_misuse_of_WinRed-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Misrepresentations_in_fundraising" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Misrepresentations_in_fundraising"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.10</span> <span>Misrepresentations in fundraising</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Misrepresentations_in_fundraising-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Red_Strategies_and_RedStone_Strategies" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Red_Strategies_and_RedStone_Strategies"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.11</span> <span>Red Strategies and RedStone Strategies</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Red_Strategies_and_RedStone_Strategies-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Rise_NY" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Rise_NY"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.12</span> <span>Rise NY</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Rise_NY-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Investigations_and_legal_issues" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Investigations_and_legal_issues"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Investigations and legal issues</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Investigations_and_legal_issues-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Investigations and legal issues subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Investigations_and_legal_issues-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-House_Ethics_Committee" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#House_Ethics_Committee"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.1</span> <span>House Ethics Committee</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-House_Ethics_Committee-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Brazilian_check_fraud_charges" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Brazilian_check_fraud_charges"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.2</span> <span>Brazilian check fraud charges</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Brazilian_check_fraud_charges-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Evictions_and_unpaid_judgments" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Evictions_and_unpaid_judgments"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.3</span> <span>Evictions and unpaid judgments</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Evictions_and_unpaid_judgments-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Friends_of_Pets_United" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Friends_of_Pets_United"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4</span> <span>Friends of Pets United</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Friends_of_Pets_United-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Theft_charges" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Theft_charges"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4.1</span> <span>Theft charges</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Theft_charges-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Allegations_of_mishandling_funds" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Allegations_of_mishandling_funds"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.4.2</span> <span>Allegations of mishandling funds</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Allegations_of_mishandling_funds-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Credit-card_skimming" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Credit-card_skimming"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.5</span> <span>Credit-card skimming</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Credit-card_skimming-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sexual_harassment_allegation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sexual_harassment_allegation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8.6</span> <span>Sexual harassment allegation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sexual_harassment_allegation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Federal_prosecution" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Federal_prosecution"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>Federal prosecution</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Federal_prosecution-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Federal prosecution subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Federal_prosecution-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Superseding_indictment" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Superseding_indictment"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.1</span> <span>Superseding indictment</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Superseding_indictment-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Guilty_plea" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Guilty_plea"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9.2</span> <span>Guilty plea</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Guilty_plea-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Post-congressional_career" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Post-congressional_career"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">10</span> <span>Post-congressional career</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Post-congressional_career-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">11</span> <span>Personal life</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Personal_life-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_popular_culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_popular_culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">12</span> <span>In popular culture</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-In_popular_culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Electoral_history" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Electoral_history"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Electoral history</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Electoral_history-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Awards_and_nominations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Awards_and_nominations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span 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title="Surname">family name</a> is <i>Devolder</i>&#32;and the second or paternal family name is <i>Santos</i>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size: 100%;"><div class="fn" style="font-size:125%;">George Santos</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Rep._George_Santos_Official_Portrait.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Rep._George_Santos_Official_Portrait.jpg/220px-Rep._George_Santos_Official_Portrait.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="275" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Rep._George_Santos_Official_Portrait.jpg/330px-Rep._George_Santos_Official_Portrait.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b5/Rep._George_Santos_Official_Portrait.jpg/440px-Rep._George_Santos_Official_Portrait.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3360" data-file-height="4200" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-top:0.2em;">Official portrait, 2022</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <span style="display: inline-block;"><a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S.&#32;House&#32;of&#32;Representatives</a></span><br />from <a href="/wiki/New_York_(state)" title="New York (state)">New York</a>'s <span data-sort-value="New York03&#160;!"><a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="New York&#39;s 3rd congressional district">3rd</a></span> district</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 3, 2023&#160;–&#32;December 1, 2023</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Tom_Suozzi" title="Tom Suozzi">Tom Suozzi</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Tom Suozzi</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1988-07-22</span>) </span>July 22, 1988<span class="noprint ForceAgeToShow"> (age&#160;36)</span></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Independent_(politics)" class="mw-redirect" title="Independent (politics)">Independent</a> (2024–present)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other political<br />affiliations</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> (2019–2024)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231127120714/https://santos.house.gov/">House website (archived)</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><b>Criminal information</b><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Criminal status</th><td class="infobox-data category"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Plea_bargain" title="Plea bargain">Plea bargain</a> (Brazil)</li><li>Guilty pleas (U.S.)</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap"><a href="/wiki/Conviction" title="Conviction">Conviction(s)</a></span></th><td class="infobox-data"><b>Brazil:</b> Felony <a href="/wiki/Cheque_fraud" title="Cheque fraud">check fraud</a><br /><b>United States</b>: <a href="/wiki/Wire_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Wire fraud">Wire fraud</a> and <a href="/wiki/Aggravation_(law)" title="Aggravation (law)">aggravated</a> <a href="/wiki/Identity_theft" title="Identity theft">Identity theft</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>George Anthony Devolder Santos</b> (born July 22, 1988) is an American former politician and convicted felon. He served as the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">U.S. representative</a> for <span data-sort-value="New York03&#160;!"><a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="New York&#39;s 3rd congressional district">New York's 3rd congressional district</a></span> from January to December 2023 when he was <a href="/wiki/Expulsion_from_the_United_States_Congress" title="Expulsion from the United States Congress">expelled</a>. He had run for the seat in 2020 but was defeated by incumbent <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> Rep. <a href="/wiki/Tom_Suozzi" title="Tom Suozzi">Tom Suozzi</a>. Suozzi opted against seeking re-election in 2022, and Santos ran for Congress again. That time, Santos prevailed, defeating Democrat Robert Zimmerman. Santos, who is gay, was the first <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> to be openly <a href="/wiki/List_of_LGBT_members_of_the_United_States_Congress" class="mw-redirect" title="List of LGBT members of the United States Congress">LGBT</a> before being elected to Congress. </p><p>Within six weeks of Santos's election, news outlets began reporting that much of his biography appeared to be fabricated. Santos admitted to having lied about his education and employment history, while his disclosures about his business activities, income, and personal wealth were inconsistent with one another. Further, Santos had not disclosed his criminal history or the existence of lawsuits against him. Santos was sworn in as a member of the House in January 2023, but faced ongoing media scrutiny as well as demands for his resignation from members of both parties. </p><p>On December 1, 2023, following an investigation by the <a href="/wiki/House_Ethics_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="House Ethics Committee">House Ethics Committee</a> and a federal <a href="/wiki/Indictment" title="Indictment">indictment</a>, the House of Representatives voted 311–114 to expel Santos. Santos is the first member of the House expelled without having previously been convicted of a crime (or having fought for the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederacy</a>). He is also the <a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_expelled,_censured,_or_reprimanded" title="List of United States representatives expelled, censured, or reprimanded">sixth member</a> of the House to be expelled and the first <a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a>. In August 2024, Santos pleaded guilty to <a href="/wiki/Identity_theft" title="Identity theft">identity theft</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wire_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Wire fraud">wire fraud</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_guilty_plea_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_guilty_plea-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-EDNY_guilty_plea_press_release_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-EDNY_guilty_plea_press_release-3"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life,_family,_and_education"><span id="Early_life.2C_family.2C_and_education"></span>Early life, family, and education</h2></div> <p>George Anthony Devolder Santos<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>a<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> was born on July 22, 1988,<sup id="cite_ref-Official_House_Bio_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Official_House_Bio-8"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>b<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> to Fátima Alzira Caruso Horta Devolder and Gercino Antônio dos Santos Jr. (known as Junior), both of whom were born in Brazil;<sup id="cite_ref-Silverstein_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Silverstein-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> he has a younger sister, Tiffany.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202330_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202330-12"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>His maternal grandparents, Paulo Horta Devolder and Rosalina Caruso Horta Devolder, were also born in Brazil. Three of his four maternal great-grandparents were also born in Brazil, with the other born in Belgium.<sup id="cite_ref-Silverstein_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Silverstein-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His mother, Fátima Devolder, immigrated to Florida in 1985, working in agriculture. She later moved to New York City, working as a housekeeper, cook, and nanny.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>c<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gercino Santos was a house painter.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202321_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202321-17"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos has claimed <a href="/wiki/Dual_citizenship" class="mw-redirect" title="Dual citizenship">dual citizenship</a> in the U.S. and Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Brazilian_check_fraud_story_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Brazilian_check_fraud_story-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>d<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2013, a Brazilian court described him as American.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos has said his family was poor during his childhood, living in a rat-infested basement apartment in <a href="/wiki/Jackson_Heights,_Queens" class="mw-redirect" title="Jackson Heights, Queens">Jackson Heights, Queens</a>, near a Brazilian immigrant enclave in <a href="/wiki/Astoria,_Queens" title="Astoria, Queens">Astoria</a>. Relatives and friends recall that his parents and an aunt often bought him dolls, toys and clothes despite their money problems.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202316–17_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202316–17-22"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His parents' marriage appears to have ended by 1998, when records in Gercino's native state of <a href="/wiki/Minas_Gerais" title="Minas Gerais">Minas Gerais</a> show that he remarried there. Santos remained close to his mother (living with her intermittently until her death) and maintained infrequent contact with his father.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202311,_28–30_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202311,_28–30-23"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to a biographer, Santos developed a reputation within his family for deceit and theft during his childhood.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>e<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos holds a <a href="/wiki/Certificate_of_High_School_Equivalency" class="mw-redirect" title="Certificate of High School Equivalency">GED (Certificate of High School Equivalency)</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He attended Intermediate School 125 (also known as I.S. 125 Thomas J. McCann Woodside Intermediate School) in <a href="/wiki/Woodside,_Queens" title="Woodside, Queens">Woodside, Queens</a>, and Primary School 122 (also known as P.S.122 The Mamie Fay School) in Astoria.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="In_Brazil">In Brazil</h3></div> <p>Around 2008, George moved to <a href="/wiki/Niter%C3%B3i" title="Niterói">Niterói</a> in Brazil's <a href="/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro_Metropolitan_Area" class="mw-redirect" title="Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area">Rio de Janeiro Metropolitan Area</a>, where his mother, Fátima, was then living, and lived there until 2011,<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Brazilian_check_fraud_story_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Brazilian_check_fraud_story-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MoJoBrazil_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MoJoBrazil-32"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> although acquaintances of Santos from that period are unsure whether he lived in Brazil or merely visited. Many knew him as Anthony Devolder. Fátima lived in difficult circumstances, working odd jobs, moving around frequently due to unpaid rent, and obtaining electricity illegally. Santos told people his family had money because his father was a high-paid executive in New York.<sup id="cite_ref-WP_Brazil_story_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP_Brazil_story-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A friend from that time says Santos was very involved in local <a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Brazil" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Brazil">LGBT activism</a>, handing out leaflets and regularly attending meetings of a local activist group and <a href="/wiki/LGBT_Pride" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT Pride">Pride</a> parades.<sup id="cite_ref-WP_Brazil_story_33-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP_Brazil_story-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>f<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Two former acquaintances said that he competed as a <a href="/wiki/Drag_queen" title="Drag queen">drag queen</a> in Brazilian beauty pageants in 2008 using the drag name Kitara Ravache,<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>g<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with one saying that Santos began dressing in drag in 2005. Manoel Antiqueira, who performs in drag as Eula Rochard, recalls Santos returning from a 2007 trip to the U.S. with expensive materials for a dress that were not available in Brazil at the time.<sup id="cite_ref-WP_Brazil_story_33-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP_Brazil_story-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>h<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos denied having been a drag queen, calling the allegations "categorically false" and accusing the media of making "outrageous claims about my life";<sup id="cite_ref-hilldenial_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-hilldenial-45"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> two days later, he said, "No, I was not a drag queen in Brazil, guys. I was young and I had fun at a festival."<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>While in Brazil, Santos's politics were shaped by his family's support for right-wing politician <a href="/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro" title="Jair Bolsonaro">Jair Bolsonaro</a>, who later became Brazil's <a href="/wiki/President_of_Brazil" title="President of Brazil">president</a>. Santos supported Bolsonaro despite his <a href="/wiki/Jair_Bolsonaro#Views_on_homosexuality" title="Jair Bolsonaro">open homophobia</a>. The Santoses frequently disparaged Brazil's then-president, <a href="/wiki/Luiz_In%C3%A1cio_Lula_da_Silva" title="Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva">Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva</a>, on social media. After winning his House election, Santos posted a picture of himself with Bolsonaro's conservative ally <a href="/wiki/Carla_Zambelli" title="Carla Zambelli">Carla Zambelli</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202343-44_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202343-44-47"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_career">Early career</h2></div> <p>From October 2011 to July 2012, Santos worked as a customer service representative at a call center for <a href="/wiki/Dish_Network" title="Dish Network">Dish Network</a> in <a href="/wiki/College_Point,_Queens" class="mw-redirect" title="College Point, Queens">College Point, Queens</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Sweet_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sweet-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Hired for his second-language skills, he handled calls from Portuguese-speaking customers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano20236–9_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano20236–9-49"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> verified that sometime after 2013, Santos worked for HotelsPro, a subsidiary of <a href="/wiki/Turkey" title="Turkey">Turkey</a>-headquartered MetGlobal.<sup id="cite_ref-resume_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resume-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In early 2016, Santos moved to Orlando, Florida, where HotelsPro was opening an office. He registered to vote and changed his driver's license to his Florida residence.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos has worked for LinkBridge Investors, a company that states that it "connects investors with fund managers".<sup id="cite_ref-resume_50-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resume-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His 2019 campaign disclosure form and a company document list him as a vice president,<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but that same year, the company president testified in a lawsuit that Santos was a freelancer who worked on commission.<sup id="cite_ref-Newsday_LinkBridge_article_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newsday_LinkBridge_article-52"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A press release for the company referred to him as its New York regional director.<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Harbor_City_Capital">Harbor City Capital</h3></div> <p>In January 2020, shortly after launching his first campaign for Congress in November 2019,<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-campaignlaunch_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-campaignlaunch-54"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos began working for Harbor City Capital, a Florida-based <a href="/wiki/Alternative_investment" title="Alternative investment">alternative investment</a> firm. The <a href="/wiki/U.S._Securities_and_Exchange_Commission" title="U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission">SEC</a> later filed a civil suit accusing the company of running a $17<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>million <a href="/wiki/Ponzi_scheme" title="Ponzi scheme">Ponzi scheme</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Harbor_City_story_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Harbor_City_story-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In June 2020, during his first run for Congress, Santos (under the name George Devolder) opened an office for Harbor City Capital in <a href="/wiki/Manhattan" title="Manhattan">Manhattan</a><sup id="cite_ref-Harbor_City_press_release_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harbor_City_press_release-56"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and became the firm's New York regional director.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>i<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Harbor_City_hiring_press_release_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Harbor_City_hiring_press_release-59"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was not named in the lawsuit, and he has denied knowledge of the fraud.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2020, Santos claimed to be managing $1.5 billion in funds for Harbor City, with a fixed <a href="/wiki/Yield_(finance)" title="Yield (finance)">yield</a> of 12 percent and an <a href="/wiki/Internal_rate_of_return" title="Internal rate of return">internal rate of return</a> of 26 percent.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Harbor_City_story_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Harbor_City_story-55"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An investor said Santos called him after the SEC suit was filed, crying that he had lost a million dollars of his own money as a result.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPost_Harbor_City_story_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPost_Harbor_City_story-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Harbor City paid Santos at least through April 2021,<sup id="cite_ref-WPonzi_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WPonzi-61"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but <a href="/wiki/Andrew_Intrater" title="Andrew Intrater">Andrew Intrater</a>, a New York financier, said Santos told him he had been let go before that due to conflicts with his political activities.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_Intrater_story_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_Intrater_story-62"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Devolder_Organization">Devolder Organization</h3></div> <p>Around the time he is reported to have left Harbor City Capital, Santos founded a <a href="/wiki/Limited_liability_company" title="Limited liability company">limited liability company</a> (LLC) called the Devolder Organization, and his reported personal income rose substantially.<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>j<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The company had no public presence when major media investigations commenced, and Santos has given inconsistent explanations of its business.<sup id="cite_ref-MJdevolder_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MJdevolder-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to his financial disclosures, Santos was the sole owner and managing member,<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>k<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> managing $80 million in assets.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On financial disclosure forms, Santos called the organization a "<a href="/wiki/Capital_introduction" title="Capital introduction">capital introduction</a> consulting" firm.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Although based in New York, the company was registered in Florida, where it was dissolved in September 2022 for failing to file annual reports. Santos said that its accountant had missed the annual filing deadline.<sup id="cite_ref-Semafor_interview_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Semafor_interview-66"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2022, the organization lent Santos's congressional campaign more than $700,000. Santos reported receiving a salary of $750,000 and dividends of $1–$5 million from the company, even though he also claimed that its estimated value was in the same range.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite his claims about the organization's size, Santos's financial disclosure forms listed no clients.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In July 2022, <a href="/wiki/Dun_%26_Bradstreet" title="Dun &amp; Bradstreet">Dun &amp; Bradstreet</a> estimated Devolder's revenue at less than $50,000.<sup id="cite_ref-WP_charge_revival_story_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP_charge_revival_story-67"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos listed himself as the <a href="/wiki/Registered_agent" title="Registered agent">registered agent</a> for the LLC and listed Florida as his state of residence. The company's mailing address was a <a href="/wiki/Merritt_Island,_Florida" title="Merritt Island, Florida">Merritt Island</a> apartment<sup id="cite_ref-The_Intercept_story_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Intercept_story-68"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> owned by Harbor City's <a href="/wiki/Chief_technology_officer" title="Chief technology officer">chief technology officer</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-MJ_57-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MJ-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The House Ethics Committee's investigation found that Santos incorporated the LLC in May 2021, although he reported income from it on his 2020 income tax return.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202338,_42n188_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202338,_42n188-69"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The committee found that when Santos applied for a business account in May 2021, he told the bank that the organization made $800,000 in net profit every year and grossed $1.5M; his May 2022 campaign financial disclosure said that the company's assets were in the $1M to $1.5M range. The organization's 2021 financial statements showed $614 of income and over $14,000 of expenses, amounting to a loss exceeding $13,000, and at the time Santos filed the 2022 disclosure, there was $4 in the company bank account.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>l<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The committee said that both Santos' personal and business accounts were used for a series of "significant" cash deposits followed by prompt cash withdrawals of similar amounts, and the source of the cash was unclear.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202343–44_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202343–44-72"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The unexplained cash withdrawals amounted to over $240,000.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202340_70-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202340-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_political_activities">Early political activities</h2></div> <p>Santos was president of United for Trump, a small New York-based group supporting <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump" title="Donald Trump">Donald Trump</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Donald_Trump_2020_presidential_campaign" title="Donald Trump 2020 presidential campaign">2020 re-election campaign</a>. In July 2019, the group staged a counter-protest to an anti-Trump rally in <a href="/wiki/Buffalo,_New_York" title="Buffalo, New York">Buffalo, New York</a>, which led to shouting and a fistfight.<sup id="cite_ref-crazy_money_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-crazy_money-73"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="U.S._House_of_Representatives">U.S. House of Representatives</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Elections">Elections</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2020_campaign">2020 campaign</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York#District_3" title="2020 United States House of Representatives elections in New York">2020 United States House of Representatives elections in New York §&#160;District 3</a></div> <p>Santos ran as a Republican for the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_of_Representatives" title="United States House of Representatives">United States House of Representatives</a> in <span data-sort-value="New York03&#160;!"><a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_3rd_congressional_district" title="New York&#39;s 3rd congressional district">New York's 3rd congressional district</a></span>, against Democratic incumbent <a href="/wiki/Tom_Suozzi" title="Tom Suozzi">Tom Suozzi</a>, launching his campaign in November 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Normally, the Nassau County Republican Committee, known for the tight control that its leadership exercises over often competitive races for its nominations, would have discouraged an unknown candidate with such minimal experience. However, Suozzi was expected to win the race easily, and no other candidates had put their names forward.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_GOP-knew_story_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_GOP-knew_story-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos raised funds, spoke to donor groups, and attended a phone-banking session at <a href="/wiki/Mar-a-Lago" title="Mar-a-Lago">Mar-a-Lago</a> with Donald Trump's children; his efforts impressed party officials. He bought entire tables at New York <a href="/wiki/Young_Republican" class="mw-redirect" title="Young Republican">Young Republican</a> events. Other candidates making the same rounds noticed that Santos repeatedly exaggerated his fundraising totals, with a wide contrast between what he said and what he reported in his campaign finance disclosure forms.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMag_2018-2022_story_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMag_2018-2022_story-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Suozzi later recalled that he had no doubt he would defeat Santos, an unknown who was not well-funded and who at the time was registered to vote in an area of Queens that was outside the district.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMag_2018-2022_story_76-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMag_2018-2022_story-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Suozzi_NYT_piece_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Suozzi_NYT_piece-77"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When reporters pressed him about living outside the district, Santos claimed an address that turned out to be his campaign treasurer's.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMag_2018-2022_story_76-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMag_2018-2022_story-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Because Santos was so little-known in the district, the Suozzi campaign decided not to pay for opposition research, deciding that it would be counterproductive to increase his name recognition.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_GOP-knew_story_75-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_GOP-knew_story-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> As expected, Suozzi prevailed; he defeated Santos 56.0%-43.5% (a margin of about 46,000 votes).<sup id="cite_ref-2020_General_Results_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020_General_Results-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Despite Santos's loss, local Republicans were pleasantly surprised by his performance.<sup id="cite_ref-Buffalo_News_story_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Buffalo_News_story-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Refusal_to_accept_election_results">Refusal to accept election results</h4></div> <p>Santos refused to accept his 2020 defeat and falsely claimed that the vote totals had been manipulated. He began raising money and hiring additional staff for a recount, insisting that half the Democratic ballots should have been discarded. Santos also refused to leave the orientation session for new members of Congress even after his opponent's victory was certified.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMag_2018-2022_story_76-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMag_2018-2022_story-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos spoke at a "<a href="/wiki/Stop_the_Steal" class="mw-redirect" title="Stop the Steal">Stop the Steal</a>" rally the day before the <a href="/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack" title="January 6 United States Capitol attack">January 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol</a>, telling the crowd that the election he lost by 13 percentage points in 2020 was stolen from him.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMag_2018-2022_story_76-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMag_2018-2022_story-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On January 6, he attended Trump's <a href="/wiki/January_6_United_States_Capitol_attack#January_6_Trump_rally" title="January 6 United States Capitol attack">Save America</a> rally at <a href="/wiki/The_Ellipse" title="The Ellipse">the Ellipse</a> in Washington, D.C. He later said that Trump "was energized", gave "a great speech", and was "at his full awesomeness" that day. After the speech, a mob of Trump supporters attacked the Capitol, disrupting the <a href="/wiki/2021_United_States_Electoral_College_vote_count" title="2021 United States Electoral College vote count">counting of the electoral votes</a> that formalized Trump's loss in the <a href="/wiki/2020_United_States_presidential_election" title="2020 United States presidential election">2020 United States presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FullAwesomeness_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FullAwesomeness-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos later said he was "never on Capitol grounds" on January 6, called it a "sad and dark day", and acknowledged that <a href="/wiki/Joe_Biden" title="Joe Biden">Joe Biden</a> won the 2020 presidential election.<sup id="cite_ref-FullAwesomeness_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FullAwesomeness-80"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-auto_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-81"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2022_campaign">2022 campaign</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2022_New_York%27s_3rd_congressional_district_election" title="2022 New York&#39;s 3rd congressional district election">2022 New York's 3rd congressional district election</a></div> <p>Shortly after his loss to Suozzi, Santos formed GADS PAC, a <a href="/wiki/Leadership_PAC" class="mw-redirect" title="Leadership PAC">leadership PAC</a>, and began raising money to run for Congress again.<sup id="cite_ref-Daily_News_PAC_loan_story_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daily_News_PAC_loan_story-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Then-New York state Republican chair <a href="/wiki/Nick_Langworthy" title="Nick Langworthy">Nick Langworthy</a> noted that "George never stopped being a candidate" and was "spending time at Mar-a-Lago, raising money in different circles".<sup id="cite_ref-Buffalo_News_story_79-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Buffalo_News_story-79"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> U.S. representative <a href="/wiki/Elise_Stefanik" title="Elise Stefanik">Elise Stefanik</a> endorsed him in August 2021 and helped him raise over $100,000 at a fundraiser.<sup id="cite_ref-harsh_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-harsh-83"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some Republicans had reservations about Santos. In mid-2021, one of his former advisors uncovered questionable business practices at Harbor City, but was unable to get press coverage.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_GOP-knew_story_75-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_GOP-knew_story-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Late in the year, Santos's campaign commissioned a vulnerability study, which revealed significant issues. Some staff members advised him to drop out; instead, he dismissed the concerns and refused to show his diplomas, leading several staffers to resign.<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_News_vulnerability_story_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBS_News_vulnerability_story-84"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Times_GOP-knew_story_75-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_GOP-knew_story-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Those who stayed became increasingly concerned and asked him to seek professional help.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202310_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202310-85"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Despite internal concerns, Santos continued his campaign, donating $185,000 to the county Republican committee, which endorsed him.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMag_2018-2022_story_76-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMag_2018-2022_story-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Suozzi announced he would not seek reelection to Congress in November 2021, improving Republicans' chances of winning the seat.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_Suozzi_leaves_story_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_Suozzi_leaves_story-86"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Unopposed for the Republican nomination, Santos ran against Democrat Robert Zimmerman.<sup id="cite_ref-santoszimmerman_87-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-santoszimmerman-87"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Zimmerman's campaign had access to a lengthy opposition research file but chose to focus on voter outreach instead.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_GOP-knew_story_75-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_GOP-knew_story-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In September 2022, <i><a href="/wiki/The_North_Shore_Leader" title="The North Shore Leader">The North Shore Leader</a></i> raised questions about Santos's employment, financial disclosures, and claims of wealth, but other media outlets did not report on the matter until after the election.<sup id="cite_ref-Elison_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Elison-88"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos defeated Zimmerman by 8%, flipping the district and helping Republicans retake the House.<sup id="cite_ref-2022_General_Results_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2022_General_Results-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After his victory, numerous outlets reported that much of Santos's <a href="/wiki/Biography" title="Biography">biography</a> appeared fabricated. Santos admitted to lying about his education and employment history, while his financial disclosures were inconsistent.<sup id="cite_ref-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History_90-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-MJdevolder_63-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MJdevolder-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="2024_campaign">2024 campaign</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York#District_3" title="2024 United States House of Representatives elections in New York">2024 United States House of Representatives elections in New York §&#160;District 3</a>, <a href="/wiki/2024_New_York%27s_3rd_congressional_district_special_election" title="2024 New York&#39;s 3rd congressional district special election">2024 New York's 3rd congressional district special election</a>, and <a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections_in_New_York#District_1" title="2024 United States House of Representatives elections in New York">2024 United States House of Representatives elections in New York §&#160;District 1</a></div> <p>The Santos campaign announced in April 2023 that he would seek re-election in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-Vice_citizenship_story_91-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vice_citizenship_story-91"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The state's <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(New_York)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party (New York)">Conservative</a> and Republican Party chairs said they would not support Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_2024_announcement_story_92-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_2024_announcement_story-92"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Following the failure of an October 2023 vote to expel him from the House, Santos said he would run again in 2024 even if he was expelled from the House before the election.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_November_2023_interview_93-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_November_2023_interview-93"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November 2023, after the House Ethics Committee's report made further fraud allegations against Santos, he reversed course and announced that he would not seek re-election.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_Ethics_Committee_report_story_94-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_Ethics_Committee_report_story-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/2024_State_of_the_Union_Address" title="2024 State of the Union Address">2024 State of the Union Address</a> in March, Santos announced that he would run for the House in <a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="New York&#39;s 1st congressional district">New York's 1st congressional district</a>, challenging incumbent Republican <a href="/wiki/Nick_LaLota" title="Nick LaLota">Nick LaLota</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> who had long advocated for Santos's expulsion or resignation. Santos called LaLota a <a href="/wiki/RINO" class="mw-redirect" title="RINO">RINO</a>. "[T]o hold a pathological liar who stole an election accountable," LaLota responded, "I led the charge to expel George Santos. If finishing the job requires beating him in a primary, count me in."<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_2024_campaign_story_96-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_2024_campaign_story-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On March 22, 2024, Santos announced his departure from the Republican Party, stating that he, "in good conscience, cannot affiliate myself with a party that stands for nothing and falls for everything." He intended to continue his congressional campaign as an <a href="/wiki/Independent_politician" title="Independent politician">independent</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On April 23, 2024, Santos dropped out of the race.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Tenure">Tenure</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Office_of_Congressman_George_Santos,_Douglaston,_November_8,_2023.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Office_of_Congressman_George_Santos%2C_Douglaston%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg/220px-Office_of_Congressman_George_Santos%2C_Douglaston%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Office_of_Congressman_George_Santos%2C_Douglaston%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg/330px-Office_of_Congressman_George_Santos%2C_Douglaston%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e6/Office_of_Congressman_George_Santos%2C_Douglaston%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg/440px-Office_of_Congressman_George_Santos%2C_Douglaston%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg 2x" data-file-width="7641" data-file-height="5094" /></a><figcaption>George Santos's constituent office in Douglaston, during his tenure</figcaption></figure> <p>On January 11, only eight days after the start of his tenure, four Republican New York congressmen who had also been elected in 2022—<a href="/wiki/Anthony_D%27Esposito" title="Anthony D&#39;Esposito">Anthony D'Esposito</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nick_LaLota" title="Nick LaLota">Nick LaLota</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nick_Langworthy" title="Nick Langworthy">Nick Langworthy</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Brandon_Williams_(politician)" title="Brandon Williams (politician)">Brandon Williams</a>—called for Santos to resign.<sup id="cite_ref-GoldCallsResign_99-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GoldCallsResign-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The other two freshman Republican members of Congress from New York, <a href="/wiki/Marc_Molinaro" title="Marc Molinaro">Marc Molinaro</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mike_Lawler" title="Mike Lawler">Mike Lawler</a>, followed suit.<sup id="cite_ref-Blake_100-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Blake-100"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Joseph Cairo, the chair of the Nassau County Republican Party, also called for Santos to resign, saying that he had "disgraced the House of Representatives, and we do not consider him one of our congresspeople".<sup id="cite_ref-GoldCallsResign_99-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GoldCallsResign-99"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos refused to resign,<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and kept the support of Republican House leadership, including former House speaker <a href="/wiki/Kevin_McCarthy" title="Kevin McCarthy">Kevin McCarthy</a>, House majority leader <a href="/wiki/Steve_Scalise" title="Steve Scalise">Steve Scalise</a>, and Representative <a href="/wiki/Elise_Stefanik" title="Elise Stefanik">Elise Stefanik</a> (the fourth-highest-ranking House Republican), who relied in part on Santos's vote to support their very narrow (four-seat) House majority.<sup id="cite_ref-FrekingExpel_102-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FrekingExpel-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-KarniGold_103-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KarniGold-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> McCarthy did not deny Santos committee assignments or impose any penalty on him for the misrepresentations he made during his campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-KarniGold_103-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-KarniGold-103"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos was assigned to the committees on <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Small_Business" title="United States House Committee on Small Business">small business</a> and <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Science,_Space,_and_Technology" title="United States House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology">space, science, and technology</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Brooks_Jan_17_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brooks_Jan_17-104"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Guardian_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian-105"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On January 31 (two weeks after the assignments were announced), he announced at a meeting of House Republicans that he was vacating his committee memberships, but said the move was temporary; he never rejoined.<sup id="cite_ref-Brooks_Jan31_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brooks_Jan31-106"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2023, Santos co-sponsored a bill to designate the "<a href="/wiki/AR-15%E2%80%93style_rifle" title="AR-15–style rifle">AR-15–style rifle</a>" the National Gun of the United States.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023, Santos voted in favor of the key bills supported by the House Republican leadership.<sup id="cite_ref-FrekingExpel_102-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FrekingExpel-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After his indictment in May, House Republican leadership reiterated that they would not seek to force Santos to resign or expel him from the House.<sup id="cite_ref-FrekingExpel_102-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FrekingExpel-102"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A subsequent attempt by Democrats to force a vote on an expulsion resolution was blocked and referred to the <a href="/wiki/United_States_House_Committee_on_Ethics" title="United States House Committee on Ethics">Committee on Ethics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-stall_109-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stall-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Later in 2023, House Democrats announced they would introduce a resolution to <a href="/wiki/Censure_in_the_United_States#House_censures" title="Censure in the United States">censure</a> Santos. Unlike an expulsion, the measure would need only a simple majority to pass. Democrats said that Republicans, who had informally criticized Santos, should have no problem with a censure vote.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_censure_motion_story_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_censure_motion_story-110"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Five New York Republicans who had already called on Santos to resign—LaLota, Molinaro, D'Esposito, Langworthy and Lawler—said they would vote for censure, as did Ohio Republican <a href="/wiki/Max_Miller_(politician)" title="Max Miller (politician)">Max Miller</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_censure_vote_story_111-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico_censure_vote_story-111"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Roll_Call" title="Roll Call">Roll Call</a></i> reported in July 2023 that Santos's office lagged behind those of members from neighboring districts in handling constituent service requests.<sup id="cite_ref-Roll_Call_services_story_112-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roll_Call_services_story-112"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos was among the 71 Republicans who voted against final passage of the <a href="/wiki/Fiscal_Responsibility_Act_of_2023" class="mw-redirect" title="Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023">Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023</a> in the House.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October, Santos voted to keep McCarthy as speaker when eight Republicans joined with House Democrats to <a href="/wiki/Removal_of_Kevin_McCarthy_as_Speaker_of_the_House" title="Removal of Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House">remove him</a>. He refused to support <a href="/wiki/Steve_Scalise" title="Steve Scalise">Steve Scalise</a> as McCarthy's replacement, since the Louisiana congressman had not personally sought Santos's support.<sup id="cite_ref-Daily_News_Scalise_story_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daily_News_Scalise_story-114"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Expulsion_resolutions">Expulsion resolutions</h3></div> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:George_Santos_Expulsion_Vote_118th_Congress.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/George_Santos_Expulsion_Vote_118th_Congress.svg/300px-George_Santos_Expulsion_Vote_118th_Congress.svg.png" decoding="async" width="300" height="151" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/George_Santos_Expulsion_Vote_118th_Congress.svg/450px-George_Santos_Expulsion_Vote_118th_Congress.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/03/George_Santos_Expulsion_Vote_118th_Congress.svg/600px-George_Santos_Expulsion_Vote_118th_Congress.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="996" data-file-height="501" /></a><figcaption>Distribution of votes on the 3rd and ultimately successful attempt to expel George Santos from Congress: <br /><span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#92C5DE; color:#92C5DE;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span>&#160;Democratic yes</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#BDD3FF; color:#BDD3FF;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span>&#160;Democratic no</span><br /> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#FFC8CD; color:#FFC8CD;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span>&#160;Republican yes</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#F48882; color:#F48882;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span>&#160;Republican no</span><br /> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#DFEEFF; color:#DFEEFF;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span>&#160;Democratic not voting</span> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#FFE0EA; color:#FFE0EA;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span>&#160;Republican not voting</span><br /> <span style="margin:0px; font-size:90%;"><span style="border:none; background-color:#a9bec9; color:#a9bec9;">&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160;</span>&#160;Democrat present</span></figcaption></figure> <p>In May 2023, after Santos was indicted on federal charges, <a href="/wiki/Robert_Garcia_(California_politician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Garcia (California politician)">Robert Garcia</a> and other House Democrats introduced a <a href="/wiki/Simple_resolution" title="Simple resolution">resolution</a> to expel Santos from the House, which required a two-thirds vote, or 290 votes, in favor. Because an expulsion motion is <a href="/wiki/Privileged_motion" class="mw-redirect" title="Privileged motion">privileged</a>, the Republican House leadership was required to either schedule a vote within two <a href="/wiki/Legislative_day" class="mw-redirect" title="Legislative day">legislative days</a>, table the proposal or refer it to the Ethics Committee. They introduced a motion to send the resolution to the Ethics Committee.<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-stall_109-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stall-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The House approved the motion by 221–204 along party lines; seven Democrats voted "present".<sup id="cite_ref-stall_109-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-stall-109"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After Santos was indicted on additional charges in October, D'Esposito introduced a second expulsion resolution, cosponsored by the other five Republican House freshmen from New York.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_GOP_frosh_expulsion_resolution_story_116-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_GOP_frosh_expulsion_resolution_story-116"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> After Rep. <a href="/wiki/Mike_Johnson" title="Mike Johnson">Mike Johnson</a> was elected speaker, the sponsors moved to force a floor vote on the resolution.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_expulsion_vote_story_117-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_expulsion_vote_story-117"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 1, the expulsion motion failed 213–179, with 19 voting present. Support was mostly from Democrats, joined by 24 Republicans, while 31 Democrats joined Republicans in opposing. California representative <a href="/wiki/Katie_Porter" title="Katie Porter">Katie Porter</a>, one of those 31, believed that it was wrong to expel Santos before his case had been disposed in the courts or the House Ethics Commission had issued its report. Santos said the result was a victory for <a href="/wiki/Due_process" title="Due process">due process</a> and dismissed the resolution as a political stunt by his colleagues anxious about their re-election prospects in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_expulsion_vote_story_118-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_expulsion_vote_story-118"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the wake of the Ethics Committee's report on Santos two weeks later, Garcia announced he would introduce another expulsion resolution, with the expectation that it would be voted on after the <a href="/wiki/Thanksgiving_Day_(United_States)" class="mw-redirect" title="Thanksgiving Day (United States)">Thanksgiving</a> recess. It was seen as possible that some of the representatives who had voted against expelling Santos previously would reconsider their positions in the wake of the report. One, Maryland Democrat <a href="/wiki/Jamie_Raskin" title="Jamie Raskin">Jamie Raskin</a>, said he would vote to expel, as "[t]he report's findings are extremely damning".<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_Ethics_Committee_report_story_94-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_Ethics_Committee_report_story-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Rep. <a href="/wiki/Michael_Guest_(politician)" title="Michael Guest (politician)">Michael Guest</a>, chair of the Ethics Committee, introduced an expulsion resolution of his own after the report was released.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Guest_resolution_story_119-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Guest_resolution_story-119"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Over the holiday recess, Santos said on an <a href="/wiki/Twitter" title="Twitter">X Space</a> that he expected to be expelled the following week when Congress returned.<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_Thanksgiving_Saturday_story_120-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico_Thanksgiving_Saturday_story-120"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He said he would "wear it like a badge of honor", called Guest a "pussy" and said that no one from <a href="/wiki/Mississippi" title="Mississippi">Mississippi</a> was going to push a New Yorker out of Congress. Santos said it was hypocritical of the House to expel him.<sup id="cite_ref-Business_Insider_expulsion_story_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Business_Insider_expulsion_story-121"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 1, the House voted to pass Guest's resolution to expel Santos, 311–114.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Specifically, 206 Democrats and 105 Republicans voted for the resolution, with two Democrats<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>m<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and 112 Republicans voting against his expulsion. Ten representatives did not vote, with two voting present and the rest absent.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He is the sixth member of the House to be expelled, the only Republican, and the only member expelled without first being convicted of a federal crime or having supported the <a href="/wiki/Confederate_States_of_America" title="Confederate States of America">Confederacy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-UPI_expulsion_125-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UPI_expulsion-125"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Times_Confederacy_126-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Confederacy-126"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After Suozzi won the <a href="/wiki/2024_New_York%27s_3rd_congressional_district_special_election" title="2024 New York&#39;s 3rd congressional district special election">February 2024 special election</a> to fill Santos's seat, leaving the House Republicans with an even narrower majority, Santos lashed out at his former Republican colleagues who had voted to expel him in a group text. "I hope you guys are happy with this dismal performance and the 10 million dollars your futile Bull Shit cost the party," Santos wrote. "I look very much forward to seeing most of you lose due to your absolute hate filled campaign to remove me from Congress arbitrarily."<sup id="cite_ref-Vanity_Fair_post-special_piece_129-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vanity_Fair_post-special_piece-129"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Political_positions">Political positions</h2></div> <p>Politically, Santos has aligned himself with former president Donald Trump.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> At a March 2019 event held by the conservative <a href="/wiki/WalkAway_campaign" title="WalkAway campaign">#WalkAway Foundation</a> that encouraged members of the <a href="/wiki/LGBT_community" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT community">LGBTQ community</a> to leave the <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic Party</a>, Santos (introducing himself as Anthony Devolder) claimed to have formed a group called United for Trump and asked <a href="/wiki/Blaire_White" title="Blaire White">Blaire White</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Transgender" title="Transgender">transgender</a> YouTuber, how she could "help educate other trans people from not having to follow the narrative that the media and the Democrats put forward".<sup id="cite_ref-WalkAway_130-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WalkAway-130"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2023, Santos attended a rally of supporters outside the Manhattan courthouse where <a href="/wiki/Prosecution_of_Donald_Trump_in_New_York" title="Prosecution of Donald Trump in New York">Trump was arraigned</a> on felony charges of <a href="/wiki/Falsifying_business_records" title="Falsifying business records">falsifying business records</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Trump_arraignment_story_131-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Trump_arraignment_story-131"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos has called <a href="/wiki/Police_brutality" title="Police brutality">police brutality</a> a "made-up concept".<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In a 2022 speech to the Whitestone Republican Club in <a href="/wiki/Whitestone,_Queens" title="Whitestone, Queens">Whitestone, Queens</a>, Santos called <a href="/wiki/Abortion" title="Abortion">abortion</a> "barbaric" and compared it to <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the <a href="/wiki/2023_Hamas_attack_on_Israel" class="mw-redirect" title="2023 Hamas attack on Israel">October<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel</a>, Santos said, "I think every inch of the United States at this point should be mapped out again and completely checked. I don't care if we go into a <a href="/wiki/Police_state" title="Police state">police state</a> for a couple of months."<sup id="cite_ref-santos-nyt-police-state-23_133-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-santos-nyt-police-state-23-133"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="False_biographical_statements">False biographical statements</h2></div> <p>On December 19, 2022, after Santos had been elected to Congress but before he had taken office, <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i> reported that he had lied about many aspects of his biography.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His lawyer denied the allegations.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-SteckDuster_134-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SteckDuster-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On December 22, New York attorney general <a href="/wiki/Letitia_James" title="Letitia James">Letitia James</a> announced that an investigation had been opened into Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-136" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-136"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 26, Santos broke his silence with interviews on <a href="/wiki/WABC_(AM)" title="WABC (AM)">WABC</a><sup id="cite_ref-137" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-137"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-138" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-138"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and with <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="The New York Post">The New York Post</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-NY_Post_interview_139-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NY_Post_interview-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-140" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-140"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He denied being a criminal, saying, "I'm not a fraud. I'm not a criminal who defrauded the entire country and made up this fictional character and ran for Congress".<sup id="cite_ref-Eidler_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eidler-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos admitted to the <i>Post</i> that he had lied about graduating from college and working for <a href="/wiki/Goldman_Sachs" title="Goldman Sachs">Goldman Sachs</a> and <a href="/wiki/Citigroup" title="Citigroup">Citigroup</a>. By December 28, federal prosecutors for the Eastern District of New York were investigating Santos's finances, and the Nassau County district attorney was investigating him.<sup id="cite_ref-Federal_and_County_Investigation_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Federal_and_County_Investigation-142"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family">Family</h3></div> <p>Santos was raised as a Catholic and has identified himself as a Catholic. At various points in his career, however, he has claimed to be "Jewish"; "Jew-<i>ish</i>"; "half Jewish"; a <a href="/wiki/Jewish_secularism" title="Jewish secularism">non-observant Jew</a>; "a proud <a href="/wiki/American_Jews" title="American Jews">American Jew</a>"; and a "<a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Jews_in_Latin_America_and_the_Caribbean" title="History of the Jews in Latin America and the Caribbean">Latino Jew</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-JI_Halakhic_story_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JI_Halakhic_story-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a January 2020 appearance on <i>Talking GOP</i>, a cable TV show he co-hosted, Santos claimed his maternal grandfather grew up Jewish, converted to Catholicism before the Holocaust, and raised his children Catholic. While Santos said that he was Catholic and that he was not "trying to claim Jewish heritage", he added, "I believe we are all Jewish, at the end – because Jesus Christ is Jewish. And if you believe in Jesus, and we're all brothers in Christ, I mean". The video resurfaced in early 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-144" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-144"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> More specifically, Santos has claimed that his maternal grandparents were <a href="/wiki/Emigration_of_Jews_from_Nazi_Germany_and_German-occupied_Europe" title="Emigration of Jews from Nazi Germany and German-occupied Europe">Jewish Holocaust refugees</a> who fled <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Ukraine" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Ukraine">Soviet Ukraine</a> and German-occupied Belgium.<sup id="cite_ref-father_info_145-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-father_info-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On an October 2020 radio show, Santos claimed that Democratic former congressman <a href="/wiki/Steve_Israel" title="Steve Israel">Steve Israel</a> offered him his support during an event hosted by the Council for a Secure America, a bipartisan group co-chaired by Israel. Santos claimed that Israel told him: "You're going to be the first Republican I am voting for in my life." Israel denied saying anything of the kind, and Santos did not appear on the event's guest list.<sup id="cite_ref-146" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-146"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-JI_Halakhic_story_143-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JI_Halakhic_story-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos did not otherwise make much mention of his purported Jewish ancestry during his 2020 run, but referred to it frequently in 2022 when all the candidates seeking the Democratic nomination to replace Suozzi were Jewish.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMag_2018-2022_story_76-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMag_2018-2022_story-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At a meeting at the U.S.–Israel PAC a month before his 2022 election, Santos courted pro-Israel activists by falsely claiming to be "<a href="/wiki/Who_is_a_Jew%3F" title="Who is a Jew?">halakhically Jewish</a>", according to attendees.<sup id="cite_ref-JI_Halakhic_story_143-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JI_Halakhic_story-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A co-chair of the organization said this served to give the impression that Santos's mother was Jewish, getting "a chuckle out of the crowd".<sup id="cite_ref-JI_Halakhic_story_143-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JI_Halakhic_story-143"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos's former roommate said Santos frequently made antisemitic jokes and said that it was acceptable for him to do so because he was Jewish. The former roommate corroborated a claim that Santos previously joked online about <a href="/wiki/Adolf_Hitler" title="Adolf Hitler">Adolf Hitler</a> killing Jews and Blacks.<sup id="cite_ref-patch_202301_147-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-patch_202301-147"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-offensivejoke_148-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-offensivejoke-148"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On December 21, 2022, following Santos's November 2022 election to Congress, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Forward" title="The Forward">The Forward</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Jewish_Insider" class="mw-redirect" title="Jewish Insider">Jewish Insider</a></i> reported that Santos's claims about his family's alleged Jewish heritage were false.<sup id="cite_ref-Silverstein_11-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Silverstein-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-father_info_145-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-father_info-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His maternal grandparents were born in <a href="/wiki/Brazil" title="Brazil">Brazil</a>, not in Ukraine or Belgium.<sup id="cite_ref-Silverstein_11-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Silverstein-11"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During a December 26, 2022 interview, Santos said: "I never claimed to be Jewish. I am <a href="/wiki/Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Catholic">Catholic</a>. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background, I said I was 'Jew-ish'".<sup id="cite_ref-NY_Post_interview_139-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NY_Post_interview-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On December 27, 2022, the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) asserted that Santos would no longer be welcome at RJC events because he had "'deceived' the organization and 'misrepresented' his Jewish heritage".<sup id="cite_ref-149" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-149"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2023 media appearances, Santos claimed that his claim to Jewish ancestry was vindicated by <a href="/wiki/DNA_test" class="mw-redirect" title="DNA test">DNA test</a> kits; however, he did not reveal the DNA information.<sup id="cite_ref-NBC_News_Piers_Morgan_story_150-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBC_News_Piers_Morgan_story-150"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Forward_Moment_DNA_story_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forward_Moment_DNA_story-151"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Forward_tests_imminent_story_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forward_tests_imminent_story-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos said on a May 2023 podcast that he was raised Catholic but considered himself a "member of the tribe" because his mother's ancestry was predominantly Jewish. Santos said he had many Jewish friends among his constituents and went to <a href="/wiki/Shabbat" title="Shabbat">Shabbat</a> dinners "more often than most".<sup id="cite_ref-Forward_tests_imminent_story_152-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Forward_tests_imminent_story-152"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Six months later, he promised CNN's <a href="/wiki/Manu_Raju" title="Manu Raju">Manu Raju</a> that he was still working on getting proof of his grandparents' ancestry, but that he was experiencing difficulty due to the ongoing <a href="/wiki/Russo-Ukrainian_War" title="Russo-Ukrainian War">Russo-Ukrainian War</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-154" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-154"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>n<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November 2023, Santos reportedly said that he was "finishing getting the last pieces" of evidence that his grandparents, after emigrating to Brazil, had forged documents that enabled them to "blend in and all of that".<sup id="cite_ref-Insider_Raju_interview_story_155-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Insider_Raju_interview_story-155"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, Santos claimed that he was biracial and that his Brazilian-born father had <a href="/wiki/Angola" title="Angola">Angolan</a> roots. <i>Jewish Insider</i> could not confirm this information.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-father_info_145-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-father_info-145"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mother">Mother</h4></div> <p>On his campaign website, Santos wrote that his mother was "the first female executive at a major financial institution", worked in the <a href="/wiki/List_of_tenants_in_2_World_Trade_Center" class="mw-redirect" title="List of tenants in 2 World Trade Center">South Tower of the World Trade Center</a>, and died "a few years later" after surviving the <a href="/wiki/September_11_attacks" title="September 11 attacks">September 11 attacks</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-SantosPriest_156-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SantosPriest-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On her 2003 visa application, however, his mother stated that she had not been in the country since 1999;<sup id="cite_ref-157" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-157"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in June 2001, Fatima reported that she was living in Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202324_158-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202324-158"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Her actual occupation has been described as <a href="/wiki/Domestic_worker" title="Domestic worker">domestic worker</a><sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> or <a href="/wiki/Home_care" title="Home care">home care</a> nurse.<sup id="cite_ref-160" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-160"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Times_mother_visa_story_161-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_mother_visa_story-161"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Upon the death of Santos's mother, a Brazilian newspaper described her as a cook. Santos's former roommates and friends said she spoke no English.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story_51-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In July 2021, Santos wrote that "9/11 claimed my mothers&#32;&#91;<i>sic</i>&#93; life". In an October 2021 interview, he said his mother was "caught up in the ash cloud" during 9/11 but "never applied for relief" because the family could afford the medical bills. In December 2022, he claimed that his parents survived being "down there" at the World Trade Center during 9/11.<sup id="cite_ref-162" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-162"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-163" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-163"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A priest at the family's Catholic church reported that when Santos's mother died in 2016, Santos told him that the family could not afford a funeral. The priest recalled that a collection at a <a href="/wiki/Catholic_funeral" title="Catholic funeral">memorial Mass</a> raised a "significant" amount for the family, which he gave to Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-SantosPriest_156-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SantosPriest-156"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He also had a friend set up a <a href="/wiki/GoFundMe" title="GoFundMe">GoFundMe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Mr._Santos_164-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mr._Santos-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In November 2023, <i><a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (magazine)">Vanity Fair</a></i> reported that the funeral home never received the $6,000 it was owed for its services.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202328_165-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202328-165"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his February 2023 <a href="/wiki/Piers_Morgan" title="Piers Morgan">Piers Morgan</a> interview, Santos insisted his mother had been at the World Trade Center the day of the attack. "It's quite insensitive to try to rehash my mother's legacy", he said. "She wasn't one to mislead me ... I stay convinced that's the truth".<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_Piers_Morgan_story_166-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_Piers_Morgan_story-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Education">Education</h3></div> <p>In 2019 and 2020, Santos said that as a child, he attended the <a href="/wiki/Horace_Mann_School" title="Horace Mann School">Horace Mann School</a>, an elite <a href="/wiki/College-preparatory_school" title="College-preparatory school">preparatory school</a> in <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">the Bronx</a>, before withdrawing because of family hardship. After the school denied those claims, Santos asserted that he had attended Horace Mann for only six months in ninth grade and suggested that he had used one of his other names. The school reiterated that it had no record of a student at the time using any variation of Santos's name.<sup id="cite_ref-Steck_167-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Steck-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story_51-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Morgan_followup_168-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Morgan_followup-168"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202320_169-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202320-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos's biographer wrote that although Santos has retracted claims about his higher education, he remained adamant about having attended Horace Mann despite the complete absence of evidence supporting this claim.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202320_169-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202320-169"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos falsely claimed to hold a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor&#39;s degree">bachelor's degree</a> in finance and economics from <a href="/wiki/Baruch_College" title="Baruch College">Baruch College</a> and to have graduated near the top of his class. His claimed period of attendance overlapped with his time in Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-resume_50-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resume-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos's friends recall times when he claimed to be taking classes at Baruch but never seemed to study.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story_51-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In January 2023, Santos falsely told a Republican Party chairman that he had been a "star player" on the Baruch volleyball team (as his LinkBridge supervisor had been), having won the league championship and defeated <a href="/wiki/Yale_University" title="Yale University">Yale University</a>. At the time in question, Yale had no men's varsity volleyball team.<sup id="cite_ref-People_Baruch_story_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-People_Baruch_story-170"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-171" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-171"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano2023128_172-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano2023128-172"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In a pre-election radio interview, Santos said his supposed volleyball career led to him needing both <a href="/wiki/Knee_replacement" title="Knee replacement">knees replaced</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-knee1_173-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-knee1-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-knee2_174-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-knee2-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos later admitted that he had never graduated from college.<sup id="cite_ref-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History_90-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Campaign documents claimed that Santos held a <a href="/wiki/Master_of_business_administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Master of business administration">master of business administration</a> (MBA) from <a href="/wiki/New_York_University" title="New York University">New York University</a> (NYU) and that he had scored a 710 on the <a href="/wiki/Graduate_Management_Admission_Test" title="Graduate Management Admission Test">Graduate Management Admission Test</a> (GMAT).<sup id="cite_ref-SteckDuster_134-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-SteckDuster-134"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-resume_50-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-resume-50"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In a 2020 podcast, Santos claimed to have paid off his MBA student loans by 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-Insider_student_debt_story_175-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Insider_student_debt_story-175"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A prospective Harbor City investor recalled Santos telling him he had turned down an offer to attend <a href="/wiki/Harvard_Business_School" title="Harvard Business School">Harvard Business School</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPost_Harbor_City_story_60-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPost_Harbor_City_story-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Gregory Morey-Parker, a roommate who lent Santos money in 2014 that has not been repaid, recalled that Santos claimed to be a graduate of <a href="/wiki/Stern_School_of_Business" class="mw-redirect" title="Stern School of Business">NYU's business school</a> but seemed not to know its name.<sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-176" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-176"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>o<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his interview with Morgan, Santos said that he lied about his college experience to meet perceived societal expectations. He added that he could not afford to attend college.<sup id="cite_ref-BBC_Piers_Morgan_story_166-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BBC_Piers_Morgan_story-166"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos said he did not know the source of the spurious GMAT score in his résumé published by the Nassau County Republican Committee. Morgan asked why Santos thought he could get away with lying about his education in a congressional election, and Santos replied that no one had raised any questions about his claims during his 2020 campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_Piers_Morgan_story_177-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_Piers_Morgan_story-177"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In a February 2023 <i><a href="/wiki/Newsmax" title="Newsmax">Newsmax</a></i> interview, Santos blamed his résumé lies on the local Republican Party;<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_blame-Nassau-GOP_article_178-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_blame-Nassau-GOP_article-178"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> later, after expulsion from the House, he said that a campaign staffer had written his résumé.<sup id="cite_ref-Marcia_Kramer_interview_179-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Marcia_Kramer_interview-179"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Employment">Employment</h3></div> <p>Santos has used various aliases, including "Anthony Zabrovsky" and "Anthony Devolder".<sup id="cite_ref-Alias_use_180-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Alias_use-180"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Steck_167-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Steck-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Mr._Santos_164-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mr._Santos-164"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A 2011 Wikipedia userpage created under the latter name claims that the account holder had acted in <i><a href="/wiki/Hannah_Montana" title="Hannah Montana">Hannah Montana</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Suite_Life_of_Zack_%26_Cody" title="The Suite Life of Zack &amp; Cody">The Suite Life of Zack &amp; Cody</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-HannahMontana_43-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HannahMontana-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After returning to the U.S. from Brazil, Santos told friends that he had worked as a journalist for Brazilian media conglomerate <a href="/wiki/Grupo_Globo" title="Grupo Globo">Globo</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Curbed_roommate_interview_181-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Curbed_roommate_interview-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The New York Times</i> could not find his name on the organization's website.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story_51-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos also told a roommate in late 2013 that he was a model who had worked at <a href="/wiki/New_York_Fashion_Week" title="New York Fashion Week">New York Fashion Week</a> and would be appearing in <i><a href="/wiki/Vogue_(magazine)" title="Vogue (magazine)">Vogue</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Curbed_roommate_interview_181-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Curbed_roommate_interview-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos has called himself a "seasoned Wall Street financier and investor" and said he had worked for <a href="/wiki/Citigroup" title="Citigroup">Citigroup</a> and <a href="/wiki/Goldman_Sachs" title="Goldman Sachs">Goldman Sachs</a>, but neither company has any record of him.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His campaign website stated that he was "an associate asset manager in the real asset division" of Citigroup,<sup id="cite_ref-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History_90-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but the company sold its <a href="/wiki/Asset_management" title="Asset management">asset management</a> division in 2005, before his claimed period of employment.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On a 2022 podcast, Santos claimed that while employed at Goldman Sachs seven years earlier, he had attended the <a href="/wiki/SALT_Conference" class="mw-redirect" title="SALT Conference">SALT Conference</a>; while there, he had allegedly criticized the company for investing in <a href="/wiki/Renewable_energy" title="Renewable energy">renewable energy</a>, calling it a taxpayer-subsidized scam. <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Scaramucci" title="Anthony Scaramucci">Anthony Scaramucci</a>, who runs the conference, said there is no record that Santos ever attended.<sup id="cite_ref-Steck_167-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Steck-167"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos worked as a customer service representative at a call center for <a href="/wiki/Dish_Network" title="Dish Network">Dish Network</a> in <a href="/wiki/College_Point,_Queens" class="mw-redirect" title="College Point, Queens">College Point, Queens</a> from October 2011 to July 2012, overlapping the time he said he worked at Citigroup.<sup id="cite_ref-Sweet_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sweet-48"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He later told the <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Post" title="New York Post">New York Post</a></i> that his Citigroup claim was "a poor choice of words" and that a subsequent employer had been in "limited partnerships" with those companies.<sup id="cite_ref-NY_Post_interview_139-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NY_Post_interview-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Acquaintances and coworkers said that Santos claimed his family was wealthy and had extensive real estate holdings in the U.S. and Brazil.<sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He repeated this claim during his 2022 congressional campaign, saying that he and his family owned 13 rental properties in New York. No such properties were listed on his campaign's financial disclosure forms or in public records.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos later admitted to the <i>Post</i> that the claim was false and that he owned no properties as of the end of 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-NY_Post_interview_139-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NY_Post_interview-139"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a November 2022 interview, Santos discussed the 2016 <a href="/wiki/Pulse_nightclub_shooting" title="Pulse nightclub shooting">Pulse nightclub shooting</a> that took place in Orlando, saying that his company "lost four employees" there.<sup id="cite_ref-Mann_182-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mann-182"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>The New York Times</i> found no connection between the 49 victims killed in the attack and any company named in Santos's biography.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In a December 2022 interview, Santos changed his story, saying, "We did lose four people that were going to be coming to work for the company that I was starting up in Orlando".<sup id="cite_ref-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History_90-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>During his 2022 congressional campaign, Santos told prospective donors that he was a producer for the musical <i><a href="/wiki/Spider-Man:_Turn_Off_the_Dark" title="Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark">Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark</a></i>. Michael Cohl, <i>Spider-Man</i>'s lead producer, denied that Santos was involved with the show. The musical's playbills did not contain his name. Santos was living in Brazil in 2011 when the show opened, and his alleged time as producer overlaps his employment at Dish Network.<sup id="cite_ref-183" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-183"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2023, Santos downplayed the significance of the many false or exaggerated claims he had made related to his job history, saying that he had not posted his résumé online during his campaign. He also noted that "studies show that most people lie on their résumés. It's just unfortunately ... the reality".<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_plea_deal_nix_story_184-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_plea_deal_nix_story-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Residence">Residence</h3></div> <p>During his 2020 campaign, Santos gave his address a residence in <a href="/wiki/Elmhurst,_Queens" title="Elmhurst, Queens">Elmhurst</a>, <a href="/wiki/Queens" title="Queens">Queens</a>, located outside the district in which he was then seeking office.<sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fn1_185-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fn1-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>p<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos and his partner later moved to a <a href="/wiki/Rowhouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Rowhouse">rowhouse</a> in <a href="/wiki/Whitestone,_Queens" title="Whitestone, Queens">Whitestone, Queens</a>; its owner said they had moved there in July 2020.<sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In March 2022, Santos told <i><a href="/wiki/Newsday" title="Newsday">Newsday</a></i> that he left Whitestone because of an alleged January 2021 vandalism incident.<sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was registered to vote at the Whitestone address during his congressional campaigns, but did not appear to live there.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos's landlord said he moved out of the Whitestone residence in August 2022, leaving $17,000 in damages,<sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but records showed he was still registered there when he voted that November. According to the landlord, Santos continued receiving mail there after the election, including the certificate of his election victory.<sup id="cite_ref-December_20_WCBS_story_186-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-December_20_WCBS_story-186"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos told reporters he planned to move to <a href="/wiki/Oyster_Bay,_New_York" title="Oyster Bay, New York">Oyster Bay</a>, <a href="/wiki/Nassau_County,_New_York" title="Nassau County, New York">Nassau County</a>, but he and his partner apparently moved into a house in <a href="/wiki/Huntington,_New_York" title="Huntington, New York">Huntington</a>, <a href="/wiki/Suffolk_County,_New_York" title="Suffolk County, New York">Suffolk County</a> (outside the boundaries of the 3rd <a href="/wiki/Congressional_district" title="Congressional district">congressional district</a>) in August 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-fn1_185-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-fn1-185"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>p<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He told the <i>Post</i> the house was his sister's, but <i>The New York Times</i> later found she lived in Elmhurst.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_campaign_finance_story_187-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_campaign_finance_story-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Victimhood">Victimhood</h3></div> <p>On at least three occasions, Santos has claimed to have been the victim of various <a href="/wiki/Unreported_crime" class="mw-redirect" title="Unreported crime">unreported crimes</a>. In January 2016, he claimed to have been robbed of the money he was on his way to give his former landlady's attorney in settlement of her eviction claim against him.<sup id="cite_ref-Gothamist_mugging_story_188-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gothamist_mugging_story-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Five years later, Santos claimed he and his partner had found stones and eggs thrown at their Whitestone apartment after they returned to it from a party at <a href="/wiki/Mar-a-Lago" title="Mar-a-Lago">Mar-a-Lago</a>. The owner, who lived in the building's lower unit, did not recall any such incident; the <i>Times</i> found no relevant police report.<sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After his election, Santos told two Brazilian journalists on a podcast that during mid-2021, he had been mugged in New York City as he walked out of a building at the corner of <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Avenue" title="Fifth Avenue">Fifth Avenue</a> and <a href="/wiki/55th_Street_(Manhattan)" title="55th Street (Manhattan)">55th Street</a> in mid-afternoon. Thieves, he said, made off with his briefcase, watch, and shoes, and fled the scene before anyone noticed anything. <i><a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (magazine)">Vanity Fair</a></i> noted that the intersection in question is one of the busiest in the city with high security at its luxury businesses. Santos did not provide a police report of the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-Vanity_Fair_podcast_story_189-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vanity_Fair_podcast_story-189"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His description of the alleged assault included a comment that has been characterized as an "overtly racist" stereotype about Black people being likely to commit crimes.<sup id="cite_ref-190" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-190"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2023, Santos told the <i>Times</i> that a few months earlier, his niece had vanished from a Queens playground, only to be found 40 minutes later in the company of two Chinese men. He claimed to suspect that the incident was retaliation for his opposition to the <a href="/wiki/Chinese_Communist_Party" title="Chinese Communist Party">Chinese Communist Party</a>. The newspaper found that while the incident had been reported to police, investigators found no evidence to support the story and suspected it had been invented.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Ashford_call_story_191-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Ashford_call_story-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Health">Health</h3></div> <p>In addition to his claim in October 2020 of having both knees replaced,<sup id="cite_ref-knee1_173-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-knee1-173"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-knee2_174-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-knee2-174"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos said in an interview earlier that year that he had been diagnosed with a <a href="/wiki/Brain_tumor" title="Brain tumor">brain tumor</a> and received <a href="/wiki/Radiation_treatment" class="mw-redirect" title="Radiation treatment">radiation treatment</a>. He also claims to suffer from an <a href="/wiki/Immunodeficiency" title="Immunodeficiency">immunodeficiency</a> and <a href="/wiki/Chronic_bronchitis" class="mw-redirect" title="Chronic bronchitis">acute chronic bronchitis</a>. When asked in 2022, his campaign did not give details or answer questions about his purported brain tumor.<sup id="cite_ref-Gothamist_192-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gothamist-192"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Charitable_work">Charitable work</h3></div> <p>In his 2020 campaign online biography, Santos claimed he and his family had worked charitably on behalf of children born with the rare genetic skin disorder <a href="/wiki/Epidermolysis_bullosa" title="Epidermolysis bullosa">epidermolysis bullosa</a> (EB). <i><a href="/wiki/Vice_News" title="Vice News">Vice News</a></i> found that no one involved with the few charities that specifically work with EB patients in the U.S. or Brazil had ever heard of or received contributions from him.<sup id="cite_ref-Vice_EB_story_193-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Vice_EB_story-193"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Sometime during 2022, the campaign changed the website so it no longer mentioned EB; the revised language said that his family's charitable efforts were directed at "helping at-risk children and America's veterans".<sup id="cite_ref-WashPost_bio_evolution_story_194-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPost_bio_evolution_story-194"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Campaign_finance">Campaign finance</h2></div> <p>During Santos's 2020 campaign, a consultant described him as "a walking campaign-finance violation." Santos suggested that donors bypass contribution limits by donating to other Republicans' PACs, which would then send the money back to him.<sup id="cite_ref-NYMag_2018-2022_story_76-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYMag_2018-2022_story-76"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Financial_disclosures">Financial disclosures</h3></div> <p>In September 2023, Santos filed his personal financial disclosures 20 months late.<sup id="cite_ref-195" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-195"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>q<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2020, he reported a net worth of $5,000 and only $50,000 from Harbor City Capital, but the House Ethics Committee later reported over $90,000 in income and exposed $80,000 in mostly fictitious loans to his campaign.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202342_196-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202342-196"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202316–17_197-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202316–17-197"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He personally profited $28,000 from repayments of those loans.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_campaign_spending_story_198-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_campaign_spending_story-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By 2022, he claimed a net worth of $2.5 to $11 million but reported no U.S. property, despite earlier claims of owning Long Island mansions.<sup id="cite_ref-worth_199-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-worth-199"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A $600,000 loan to his campaign was missing from his 2022 forms, but later bank records showed $715,000 in loans from his personal savings and Devolder accounts. The committee suggested these loans may have been illegal campaign contributions.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202322_200-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202322-200"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2023, Santos reportedly brokered a $19 million yacht sale between two major campaign contributors. Although not illegal, the transaction's timing raised concerns about potential campaign finance violations. Authorities are investigating.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_yacht_sale_story_201-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_yacht_sale_story-201"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> His campaign in July 2023 reported raising $133,000 but refunded $85,000 to him. Many donors were linked to Chinese billionaire <a href="/wiki/Miles_Guo" class="mw-redirect" title="Miles Guo">Miles Guo</a>, whom Santos has publicly supported.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_July_campaign_donations_story_202-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_July_campaign_donations_story-202"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> By April 2024, Santos’s 2022 campaign reported no fundraising or spending, but its debt had increased to nearly $800,000, with $630,000 in loans claimed to be from Santos personally.<sup id="cite_ref-Slate_April_2024_story_203-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Slate_April_2024_story-203"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Four months later, the campaign reported a similar amount of outstanding debt against $562 in cash on hand.<sup id="cite_ref-August_2024_Newsday_story_204-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-August_2024_Newsday_story-204"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Campaign_spending">Campaign spending</h3></div> <p>During his campaign, Santos spent prodigiously; he used campaign funds to pay for shirts for staff from <a href="/wiki/Brooks_Brothers" title="Brooks Brothers">Brooks Brothers</a>, meals at the restaurant at the <a href="/wiki/Bergdorf_Goodman_Building" title="Bergdorf Goodman Building">Bergdorf Goodman department store</a>, and $40,000 in airline fares, including to locations in California, Texas and Florida, and a stay at <a href="/wiki/The_Breakers_(hotel)" title="The Breakers (hotel)">the Breakers</a> in <a href="/wiki/Palm_Beach,_Florida" title="Palm Beach, Florida">Palm Beach, Florida</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> part of $30,000 in hotel bills, $14,000 paid to car services,<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_expenses_story_205-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico_expenses_story-205"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and an equivalent sum spent at a Queens restaurant.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_RedStone_story_206-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_RedStone_story-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> That much airfare, the <i>Times</i> later noted, is far more than most candidates spend on their first election and closer to the amounts spent by party leaders who have served in Congress for years. Two campaign aides told the <i>Times</i> that staff were increasingly concerned during the campaign that Santos was more interested in spending the $3<span class="nowrap">&#160;</span>million raised for the race "frivolously" than on winning the election.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_campaign_finance_story_187-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_campaign_finance_story-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The October 2023 indictment suggests that at least $11,000 in spending on luxury items was money obtained through <a href="/wiki/Credit_card_fraud" title="Credit card fraud">credit card fraud</a> and <a href="/wiki/Identity_theft" title="Identity theft">identity theft</a>, by Santos allegedly using donors' credit card information without their knowledge or consent, representing himself as them, and diverting those funds to a company he controlled.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_second_indictment_story_207-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_second_indictment_story-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The House Ethics Committee found several instances of apparent personal spending during and after the campaign that were not reported to the FEC. In February 2022, he had spent $1,700 at two Atlantic City casinos, $1,500 at a pet store, and smaller amounts on <a href="/wiki/JetBlue" title="JetBlue">JetBlue</a>, various retailers and the <a href="/wiki/Adventureland_(New_York)" title="Adventureland (New York)">Adventureland</a> amusement park in <a href="/wiki/East_Farmingdale,_New_York" title="East Farmingdale, New York">East Farmingdale</a> on Long Island. A July hotel bill in excess of $3,000 <i>was</i> reported, but conflicts with Santos's personal calendar showing he was elsewhere at the time and not doing any campaigning. Charges for a taxi and hotel in Las Vegas were made to the campaign during a time when Santos said he was there for his <a href="/wiki/Honeymoon" title="Honeymoon">honeymoon</a>. At the end of November, following his election victory, Santos's campaign wired him $20,000, which also went unrecorded. He spent $6,000 of it at <a href="/wiki/Ferragamo" class="mw-redirect" title="Ferragamo">Ferragamo</a>, withdrew $1,000 in cash from a Queens ATM and, later, $800 at a casino. Other money was used to pay his rent.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_campaign_spending_story_198-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_campaign_spending_story-198"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos's campaign finance reports listed a company called "Cleaner 123" as receiving $11,000 over four months in rent for campaign staff housing in the district. Neighbors of the house said that Santos and his partner appeared to have been living there during that time.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_campaign_finance_story_187-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_campaign_finance_story-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos continued to spend campaign money lavishly even after being expelled from the House. His FEC filing for the last quarter of 2023 reports a $1,300 expense at the Capitol Hill Club, a private Republican social club, on December 4, three days after his expulsion.<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_2024_1Q_story_208-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico_2024_1Q_story-208"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Donations_to_other_candidates">Donations to other candidates</h3></div> <p>Santos's campaign and GADS PAC reported making a combined $180,000 in contributions to other Republican campaigns. A review by the <i>Times</i> of those other campaigns' financial reports found many instances where their reports and Santos's reports did not match.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_missing_$365,000_story_209-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_missing_$365,000_story-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The PAC reported making two $2,900 donations to Michelle Bond's unsuccessful primary campaign for the Republican nomination in the neighboring <a href="/wiki/New_York%27s_1st_congressional_district" title="New York&#39;s 1st congressional district">1st district</a>. Her campaign's reports show a single donation of $5,000, $800 less than Santos's PAC reported. The PAC's donations to <a href="/wiki/Blake_Masters" title="Blake Masters">Blake Masters</a>'s unsuccessful <a href="/wiki/2022_United_States_Senate_election_in_Arizona" title="2022 United States Senate election in Arizona">campaign for the U.S. Senate in Arizona</a> are acknowledged by the recipient, but a subsequent $2,000 from Santos's campaign committee is not, and the Masters campaign says it can find no records of it. The address Santos's campaign gave for that contribution, like some of the donations Santos reported, was apparently fictitious, this one in the <a href="/wiki/Florida_Panhandle" class="mw-redirect" title="Florida Panhandle">Florida Panhandle</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_missing_$365,000_story_209-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_missing_$365,000_story-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>This pattern also extended to Republican candidates for state office. Disclosure reports for those campaigns on file with the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Board_of_Elections" title="New York State Board of Elections">New York State Board of Elections</a> in <a href="/wiki/Albany,_New_York" title="Albany, New York">Albany</a> show over 20 donations to them from Santos's campaign and his PACs during the 2020–22 election cycle. There are no corresponding reports of those donations on Santos's and GADS PAC's FEC filings.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_missing_$365,000_story_209-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_missing_$365,000_story-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Politico" title="Politico">Politico</a></i> later looked at Santos's 2020 campaign finance reports, and found similar discrepancies in both state and federal reports. Shortly after being formed in 2019, Santos's campaign committee made its first donations, $9,000 total, to Trump's presidential campaign committee and two local Republican organizations. The first, at $2,800, is not reported in the Trump campaign's filings and exceeds the cycle limit for contributions from one campaign to another. The second is to the "<a href="/wiki/Oyster_Bay_(town),_New_York" class="mw-redirect" title="Oyster Bay (town), New York">Town of Oyster Bay</a> Republican Club", a nonexistent entity. The New York state records of two Republican organizations that do use the town's name show no contributions from Santos. Similarly, a $2,000 contribution to the Nassau County Republican Committee is not reflected on that organization's records. "It's impossible to believe that all three of these political committees independently lost track of political donations from Santos's campaign during this period", a campaign finance lawyer the website spoke to said.<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_2020_campaign_finance_story_210-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico_2020_campaign_finance_story-210"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In April 2023, Texas representative <a href="/wiki/Beth_Van_Duyne" title="Beth Van Duyne">Beth Van Duyne</a> reported that her campaign had never received its share of a joint fundraising committee (JFC) created for a fundraiser held with Santos in July 2022. In a report filed by its treasurer, Nancy Marks, the JFC reported raising $11,600. Around $2,000 was spent on the event, at a <a href="/wiki/Garden_City,_New_York" title="Garden City, New York">Garden City, New York</a>, restaurant; the rest was, according to the report, divided evenly between the two campaigns, with each receiving almost $5,000. A spokesman for the Van Duyne campaign said that money was never disbursed to them and that it will not hold further fundraisers with Santos through it. Santos's campaign had no comment.<sup id="cite_ref-Dallas_Morning_News_JFC_story_211-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dallas_Morning_News_JFC_story-211"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Campaign finance lawyer Brett Kappel speculated that the failure to share the money might indicate that Santos's campaign was using the JFC to evade campaign contribution limits. He noted that two contributors gave a combined $5,800 to it in August, equal to the amount they had already contributed directly, the legal maximum, to Santos's campaign. There could be more innocent explanations, Kappel allowed, such as the check getting lost in the mail, but in that case, the campaign treasurers should have long ago resolved that. He also noted that although Santos's campaign treasurers had both filed termination reports with respect to the JFC earlier in 2023, the FEC had not obliged by mid-April, suggesting that the JFC may be the subject of complaints to the commission.<sup id="cite_ref-Dallas_Morning_News_JFC_story_211-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dallas_Morning_News_JFC_story-211"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unitemized_expenses">Unitemized expenses</h3></div> <p>In a later article, the <i>Times</i> noted that Santos's campaign spent more than $5,000 on flights to and hotel stays in Washington and <a href="/wiki/West_Palm_Beach,_Florida" title="West Palm Beach, Florida">West Palm Beach, Florida</a>, for Republican fundraisers in the first quarter of 2021, a time when the next congressional election was almost two years away and he had no primary challenger. By the end of the year, Santos's reported expenses for those trips had reached $90,000 and had become more lavish, with hundreds of dollars spent on transportation, hotels, and food around the country.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_missing_$365,000_story_209-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_missing_$365,000_story-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In early 2022, the campaign filed amended reports. Among the changes made were upward adjustments to some of the expenses he had reported at the end of 2021. A $60 meal at a Michigan <a href="/wiki/Sushi" title="Sushi">sushi</a> restaurant was now reported as having cost $199.99, along with three additional expenses of that exact amount on that date. Five previously reported <a href="/wiki/Uber" title="Uber">Uber</a> and taxi rides went from $267 total to $445. A subsequent amended report, in May, reported no transactions on the date to which the sushi dinner had previously been attributed.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_missing_$365,000_story_209-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_missing_$365,000_story-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos's campaign financial disclosures went on to include many other expenses of $199.99—one cent below the $200 threshold at which campaigns are legally required to provide receipts and disclose recipients.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_campaign_finance_story_187-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_campaign_finance_story-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Slate_Il_Bacco_article_212-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Slate_Il_Bacco_article-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> An election law expert the <i>Times</i> talked to suggested that this could indicate awareness of the law and intent to violate it.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_campaign_finance_story_187-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_campaign_finance_story-187"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-214" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-214"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>r<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> One of those expenses was for a Miami hotel where rooms rarely rent for under $600 a night.<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_$199.99_story_215-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico_$199.99_story-215"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <i>Times</i> later reported that other Miami businesses where the campaign reported spending money could not find receipts for those amounts or said the expenses did not reflect the prices of the products allegedly purchased.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_treasurer_resignation_story_216-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_treasurer_resignation_story-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Politico" title="Politico">Politico</a></i> later compared Santos's campaign reports to other congressional campaigns that spent similar total amounts, and found that only nine percent of them had recorded <i>any</i> expenses in the $199–200 range. Most of those were to the videoconferencing service <a href="/wiki/Zoom_(software)" title="Zoom (software)">Zoom</a>, which offers a business plan for $199.90. Of 4,300 campaigns that filed reports during the cycle, only 25 reported any expenses of exactly $199.99; of those, the most times that amount was claimed was four, while Santos's campaign claimed it 37 times. <i>Politico</i> called this "a statistical improbability".<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_$199.99_story_215-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico_$199.99_story-215"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i>Times</i> noted that the $199.99 transactions reached a total of 1,200 separate payments in Santos's early 2022 amended report, totaling over $250,000. They were still in the amended report from May of that year, which had removed the larger sushi-dinner bill and taxi expenditures. By the end of the campaign, the total unitemized expenditures had exceeded $365,000, 12 percent of his total campaign expenses and six times that of any other member of Congress from New York. Since federal election regulations require that campaigns itemize all transactions with a particular vendor once the amount exceeds $200, the <i>Times</i> calculated that Santos's campaign would have to have done business with over 1,800 separate concerns for all the unitemized transactions to be lawfully reported as such. His campaign lists 270. An expert at the <a href="/wiki/Campaign_Legal_Center" title="Campaign Legal Center">Campaign Legal Center</a> (CLC) said the campaign's reporting was "so ludicrous that it's completely wrong" and suggested the campaign was covering up its actual expenses.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_missing_$365,000_story_209-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_missing_$365,000_story-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos suggested in a subsequent interview that the recurrences of "$199.99" could have been clerical errors that could be "rectified if there is any discrepancy."<sup id="cite_ref-FOX5_February_interview_217-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOX5_February_interview-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Il_Bacco_restaurant">Il Bacco restaurant</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Il_Bacco,_Little_Neck,_November_8,_2023.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Il_Bacco%2C_Little_Neck%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg/220px-Il_Bacco%2C_Little_Neck%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="330" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Il_Bacco%2C_Little_Neck%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg/330px-Il_Bacco%2C_Little_Neck%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/31/Il_Bacco%2C_Little_Neck%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg/440px-Il_Bacco%2C_Little_Neck%2C_November_8%2C_2023.jpg 2x" data-file-width="5411" data-file-height="8117" /></a><figcaption>Il Bacco in Little Neck</figcaption></figure> <p>During his two congressional runs in 2020 and 2022, Santos reported having spent over $25,000 at Il Bacco, an eatery popular for New York City Republican events;<sup id="cite_ref-Slate_Il_Bacco_article_212-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Slate_Il_Bacco_article-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> he had also entertained prospective Harbor City clients there.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPost_Harbor_City_story_60-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPost_Harbor_City_story-60"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos's 2022 campaign reports owing Il Bacco nearly $19,000 for its election night victory party, in addition to seven of the instances where the campaign had reported spending exactly $199.99.<sup id="cite_ref-Slate_Il_Bacco_article_212-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Slate_Il_Bacco_article-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos appointed Il Bacco's owner, Giuseppe "Joe" Oppedisano,<sup id="cite_ref-Giuseppe_Oppedisano_218-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Giuseppe_Oppedisano-218"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> along with his daughter, the restaurant's manager, to his campaign's "Small Business for Santos" Coalition; Oppedisano in turn donated $6,500 to his campaign and its associated PACs. Oppedisano's brother Rocco also gave Santos's campaign $500. Because Rocco<sup id="cite_ref-thedailybeast/2023/rocco_219-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-thedailybeast/2023/rocco-219"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> is not a U.S. citizen and his <a href="/wiki/Green_Card" class="mw-redirect" title="Green Card">permanent resident status</a> was revoked after guns and drugs were seized from his properties in 2009, he cannot legally make campaign contributions.<sup id="cite_ref-Slate_Il_Bacco_article_212-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Slate_Il_Bacco_article-212"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Political_action_committee">Political action committee</h3></div> <p>In July 2021, Santos loaned GADS PAC $25,000, five times what it had on hand at the time. The next day, the PAC donated the same amount to the campaign of <a href="/wiki/Lee_Zeldin" title="Lee Zeldin">Lee Zeldin</a>, a Republican congressman from Long Island who became the party's gubernatorial nominee in 2022. Starting in April 2022, GADS PAC, by then flush with donations from Santos supporters, repaid him in four installments over two months. Santos had effectively arranged for his campaign contributors to repay the loan. At the time these were reported, Robert Maguire, an expert on the subject at <a href="/wiki/Citizens_for_Responsibility_and_Ethics_in_Washington" title="Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington">Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington</a> (CREW), found several aspects of the transaction "extremely strange", including Santos's loan to a PAC (rather than his campaign committee, as is more typical) and his establishment of a <a href="/wiki/Leadership_PAC" class="mw-redirect" title="Leadership PAC">leadership PAC</a> for himself before even being elected to Congress (such PACs are used by party leaders and committee chairs or <a href="/wiki/Ranking_member" title="Ranking member">ranking members</a>, to support colleagues).<sup id="cite_ref-Daily_News_PAC_loan_story_82-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Daily_News_PAC_loan_story-82"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The House Ethics Committee examined Santos's and GADS PAC's bank records and found neither the 2021 loan nor one for $2,000 supposedly made to it by Santos a year later. Similarly, none of the $30,000 in repayments to Santos were actually made. Almost half that money was given to another New York political committee; neither it nor GADS PAC reported the transaction to the FEC.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202324–25_220-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202324–25-220"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="FEC_investigations">FEC investigations</h3></div> <p>During 2021–22, the <a href="/wiki/Federal_Election_Commission" title="Federal Election Commission">Federal Election Commission</a> (FEC) wrote over 20 letters to Santos's campaign about problems with its disclosure reports. Fourteen concerned contributors exceeding the $2,900 per cycle limit and insufficient information on the terms of loans to the campaign. Some original reports also unlawfully described contributions as coming from anonymous donors. The campaign responded with amended reports, ultimately filing 36 in total<sup id="cite_ref-Times_missing_$365,000_story_209-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_missing_$365,000_story-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> for the 10 periods in which reports were required.<sup id="cite_ref-TPM_campaign_finance_story_221-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TPM_campaign_finance_story-221"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2022, the FEC wrote to Marks, then Santos's campaign treasurer, about the same problems, as well as other potential violations, including contributions from apparent political organizations not registered with the commission and insufficient disclosures regarding other contributions, such as the 48-hour notice required for contributions of more than $1,000 during the last 20 days before the election. The campaign had until January 24, 2023, to correct those violations.<sup id="cite_ref-FEC_violation_letter_222-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FEC_violation_letter-222"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos's attorney denied any unlawful spending of campaign funds.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_FEC_story_223-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_FEC_story-223"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2023, the CLC filed a complaint with the FEC, alleging that Santos used campaign funds for personal expenses, concealed the source of $700,000 he gave his campaign, and falsified expenditures.<sup id="cite_ref-224" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-224"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/End_Citizens_United" title="End Citizens United">End Citizens United</a> (ECU) filed separate complaints with the FEC, DOJ, and <a href="/wiki/Office_of_Congressional_Ethics" title="Office of Congressional Ethics">Office of Congressional Ethics</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-225" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-225"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Another non-profit advocacy group, Accountable.US, filed an additional FEC complaint by the end of the week, alleging over $100,000 in contributions over the limit.<sup id="cite_ref-Roll_Call_story_226-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Roll_Call_story-226"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 24, the campaign filed amended reports with the FEC, unchecking boxes that said two loans, including $750,000, had come from Santos's personal funds without explaining who did lend the money. Other loans were still marked as coming from Santos. Campaign finance experts noted the unusual number of amended reports filed.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_FEC_amended-report_story_227-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_FEC_amended-report_story-227"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In February, Santos said the money came from his own finances.<sup id="cite_ref-FOX5_February_interview_217-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOX5_February_interview-217"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On January 27, it was reported that the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Justice" title="United States Department of Justice">Justice Department</a> asked the FEC to suspend its probe while federal prosecutors conducted a parallel criminal investigation.<sup id="cite_ref-WashPost_DOJ_story_228-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WashPost_DOJ_story-228"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Five House members requested the <a href="/wiki/Attorney_General" class="mw-redirect" title="Attorney General">attorney general</a> to investigate potential violations of campaign law and the <a href="/wiki/Foreign_Agent_Registration_Act" class="mw-redirect" title="Foreign Agent Registration Act">Foreign Agent Registration Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-229" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-229"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the end of January, ECU filed another FEC complaint against the Santos campaign, pointing to $260,000 raised as a recount fund, despite New York not allowing candidates to request recounts. Expenses appeared to duplicate those reported before the election. Santos denied involvement in the FEC filings.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_treasurer_resignation_story_216-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_treasurer_resignation_story-216"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February, the FEC informed Santos that his campaign had raised more than $5,000 without debts, deeming him a candidate in the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections" title="2024 United States House of Representatives elections">2024 elections</a>. The FEC gave him until March 14 to declare candidacy;<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_FEC_candidate_letter_story_230-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_FEC_candidate_letter_story-230"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos filed a statement confirming his candidacy.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_2024_candidacy_story_231-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_2024_candidacy_story-231"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Campaign_treasurer">Campaign treasurer</h4></div> <p>The campaign's January 2023 reports listed Thomas Datwyler as treasurer, but he denied involvement, saying his name was forged. The FEC asked the campaign for clarification.<sup id="cite_ref-ABC_News_treasurer_FEC_story_232-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC_News_treasurer_FEC_story-232"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February, the FEC gave Santos's campaign until March 14 to name a new treasurer or face suspension.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_treasurer_story_233-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_treasurer_story-233"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A week later, the campaign hired Andrew Olson, but his address matched Santos’s, and no one knew him.<sup id="cite_ref-Bloomberg_new_treasurer_story_234-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bloomberg_new_treasurer_story-234"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Olson had no prior campaign experience and listed no phone number.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_new_treasurer_story_235-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_new_treasurer_story-235"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2023, after his indictment, Santos filed new FEC paperwork listing himself as treasurer.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_treasurer_story_236-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_treasurer_story-236"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A day later, he hired Jason D. Boles, previously a treasurer for <a href="/wiki/Marjorie_Taylor_Greene" title="Marjorie Taylor Greene">Marjorie Taylor Greene</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Newsday_Boles_hiring_story_237-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newsday_Boles_hiring_story-237"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> CREW filed another FEC complaint, alleging that Olson was fictitious.<sup id="cite_ref-CREW_treasurer_complaint_238-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CREW_treasurer_complaint-238"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Santos filed new paperwork after announcing his 2024 candidacy, Boles was listed as treasurer.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_2024_campaign_story_96-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_2024_campaign_story-96"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alleged_use_of_fictitious_donors_and_donations">Alleged use of fictitious donors and donations</h3></div> <p><i><a href="/wiki/Mother_Jones_(magazine)" title="Mother Jones (magazine)">Mother Jones</a></i> found in late January 2023 that many contributions to Santos's 2020 campaign were from fictitious or nonexistent names and addresses, all given through <a href="/wiki/WinRed" title="WinRed">WinRed</a>, an online processor of small-donor contributions for Republicans. Twelve donations, totaling $30,000 of the $338,000 Santos reported raising from individual contributors, were from real people who denied having donated the amount claimed. Nine of those donors were among the 45 listed as having given Santos the maximum allowed under law for both the primary and general cycles.<sup id="cite_ref-MoJo_fake_donors_story_239-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MoJo_fake_donors_story-239"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The magazine later found that relatives of Santos in Queens who had been reported to have given his campaign over $45,000 denied having made those donations; one said he could not have afforded the amount.<sup id="cite_ref-MoJo_family_donations_story_240-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MoJo_family_donations_story-240"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>As part of its investigation into $365,000 in unitemized campaign expenditures, the <i>Times</i> found some Santos donors who said they were reported to have given more than the legal limit and more than their own records showed, sometimes in ways that suggested an attempt to make the contributions appear legal. One donor said the $20,000 the campaign reported he gave ($7,000 more than his records showed in contributions to Santos and related organizations) was in 24 separate transactions, all of which used his former address but different versions of his name, and incorrectly claimed he had a spouse.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_missing_$365,000_story_209-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_missing_$365,000_story-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Federal prosecutors later said Marks had told them she made up contributions from members of Santos's family and hers in 2021 so the campaign could appear to have raised more than $250,000 from third parties in the third quarter of that year. By doing so the campaign qualified for financial and logistical assistance from the <a href="/wiki/Republican_National_Committee" title="Republican National Committee">Republican National Committee</a> (RNC).<sup id="cite_ref-NBC_Marks_plea_story_241-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBC_Marks_plea_story-241"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Those numbers also helped dissuade other candidates from entering the race for the nomination.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Marks_plea_story_242-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Marks_plea_story-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Shortly after Marks's guilty plea Santos was indicted on charges related to the scheme.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_second_indictment_story_207-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_second_indictment_story-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Alleged_credit_card_fraud_and_misuse_of_WinRed">Alleged credit card fraud and misuse of WinRed</h3></div> <p><i>TPM</i> reported that a contributor to Santos's 2020 campaign had discovered unauthorized charges totaling nearly $15,000 on their credit card, made through WinRed during 2021 and 2022. Despite the contributor's decision not to continue supporting Santos, these charges were recorded, some exceeding cycle limits. WinRed, accused of enrolling donors in unauthorized recurring contributions, initially failed to find a record of these transactions but eventually refunded $2,000. The full refund was later provided by American Express.<sup id="cite_ref-TPM_credit_card_fraud_story_243-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TPM_credit_card_fraud_story-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2021, the donor's card was also used for unauthorized contributions to Tina Forte, totaling $2,900 each, which they had never authorized. Another donor to Forte found a $5,800 charge on their card, far exceeding their intended donation. After complaints, refunds were issued.<sup id="cite_ref-TPM_credit_card_fraud_story_243-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TPM_credit_card_fraud_story-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In July 2023, Forte's campaign manager suspected Red Strategies USA, partly owned by Santos, of inflating WinRed's fees in reports. For example, $35,000 in "credit card fees" was reported when WinRed typically charges only 4%, suggesting an excessive amount given the campaign's fundraising.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Forte_campaign_story_244-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Forte_campaign_story-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> NBC News found similar discrepancies in Santos's campaign's use of WinRed, with $206,000 paid to WinRed instead of the expected $33,000, leaving $173,000 unaccounted for.<sup id="cite_ref-NBC_WinRed_story_245-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBC_WinRed_story-245"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The October 2023 superseding indictment accused Santos of a scheme involving unauthorized use of donor credit cards, leading to charges of aggravated identity theft and credit card fraud.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_second_indictment_story_207-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_second_indictment_story-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos's consultant, Sam Miele, later admitted to unauthorized use of donor credit cards and lying about campaign expenditures, including defrauding one donor of $470,000.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Miele_plea_story_246-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Miele_plea_story-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a letter, Republican Max Miller alleged that Santos had used his and his mother's credit cards for unauthorized contributions, calling Santos a "crook" on the House floor. He claimed that over 400 others, including Republican members, were similarly defrauded.<sup id="cite_ref-NBC_Max_Miller_story_247-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NBC_Max_Miller_story-247"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos's final campaign finance report listed a $16,000 debt to WinRed, despite no previous disclosure of transactions with the platform.<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_2024_1Q_story_208-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico_2024_1Q_story-208"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Misrepresentations_in_fundraising">Misrepresentations in fundraising</h3></div> <p>Santos's campaign paid $50,000 in fees to Miele, who had called Republican donors falsely claiming to be then-House speaker Kevin McCarthy's chief of staff and asking them to support Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_GOP-knew_story_75-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_GOP-knew_story-75"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In mid-January 2023, McCarthy said though he had "some questions about it", he had "no idea" about the falsity of Santos's résumé when he ran, nor that Miele had posed as McCarthy's chief of staff, Dan Meyer.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBC_story_248-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBC_story-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-249" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-249"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Some contributors to the Santos campaign said they were motivated to give to him because of his supposed Wall Street experience or his claim to be Jewish, both later found to be fictitious, and felt cheated in the wake of those disclosures.<sup id="cite_ref-CNBC_story_248-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNBC_story-248"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Following an August indictment on charges of wire fraud, identity theft, and money laundering,<sup id="cite_ref-250" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-250"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Miele pleaded guilty in November to one count of wire fraud; his lawyer would not say whether he had agreed to testify against Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Miele_plea_story_246-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Miele_plea_story-246"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Red_Strategies_and_RedStone_Strategies">Red Strategies and RedStone Strategies</h3></div> <p>RedStone Strategies, a <a href="/wiki/Super_PAC" title="Super PAC">super PAC</a> supporting Santos in the race that had told potential donors a month before the election that it had raised $800,000 and was seeking to raise another $700,000, did not register with the FEC as a campaign organization. It was thus not known who donated to RedStone or ran it; the Devolder Organization and Jayson Benoit, one of Santos's former Harbor City coworkers who lived at and owned the Merritt Island address,<sup id="cite_ref-MJ_57-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MJ-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> were listed as officers of a similarly named organization in Florida records. There is no record that RedStone spent any money on advertising in support of Santos. It also described itself as a <a href="/wiki/501(c)_organization#501(c)(4)" title="501(c) organization">501(c)(4)</a> organization, which means that while it could spend on political advocacy as long as that was not its primary purpose, it could not support candidates directly.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_RedStone_story_206-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_RedStone_story-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>RedStone received $110,000 in a series of 76 payments over 2021 from Tina Forte's campaign, whose treasurer was the same former Harbor City coworker of Santos's and a co-owner of RedStone along with Marks and the Devolder Organization. Forte's campaign's FEC reports have some issues as well, such as many unnamed donors and $14,000 in reimbursements to the candidate for unnamed personal expenses, along with the allegations from donors of unauthorized credit charges via WinRed.<sup id="cite_ref-TPM_credit_card_fraud_story_243-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TPM_credit_card_fraud_story-243"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Demauro, Forte's campaign manager, said that Santos recommended that they hire the similarly-named Red Strategies USA as a consultant in 2021 without disclosing that he had an interest in the firm, and even seemed to have pretended to be meeting its principals, former Harbor Hill associates, for the first time along with Demauro. The agreement between the campaign and Red Strategies called for the firm to keep 80 percent of any funds it raised, an amount Demauro believes the campaign was trying to obfuscate with its initially inflated statements of WinRed credit card fees. She recalls that Marks, the campaign treasurer, repeatedly ignored her requests for bank and account statements; her own paychecks were frequently late.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Forte_campaign_story_244-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Forte_campaign_story-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The House Ethics Committee reported that a witness identified as working for the Forte campaign<sup id="cite_ref-252" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-252"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>s<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> confronted Santos in December 2021 about his failure to disclose his interest in Red Strategies. The witness noted that Santos's name was on the incorporation papers filed in May (it was actually the Devolder Organization). Santos responded that he had merely bought into the company in August.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202334_251-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202334-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>RedStone Strategies was formed in November 2021 following complaints from the Forte campaign about Red Strategies. Santos represented himself as its "managing partner" while signing one contract with another vendor; he also used a RedStone email address in his capital introduction work. During 2022 RedStone paid Santos at least $200,000;<sup id="cite_ref-254" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-254"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>t<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> an October payment of $50,000 was used by Santos over the next month to spend over $4,000 at <a href="/wiki/Herm%C3%A9s" class="mw-redirect" title="Hermés">Hermés</a>, pay for some <a href="/wiki/OnlyFans" title="OnlyFans">OnlyFans</a> subscriptions and pay his rent and credit card debts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202334-35_255-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202334-35-255"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On October 5, 2023, Marks pleaded guilty in a federal court in Long Island to numerous campaign finance violations. Her plea agreement recommended she serve between 42 months to four years in federal prison.<sup id="cite_ref-256" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-256"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos was indicted five days later on charges of <a href="/wiki/Wire_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Wire fraud">wire fraud</a> related to the diversion of funds to RedStone under the pretense that it was to buy television advertising when in fact none of it was, or could have been.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_second_indictment_story_207-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_second_indictment_story-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Rise_NY">Rise NY</h3></div> <p>In late 2020, after Santos had lost the election to Suozzi,<sup id="cite_ref-Newsday_Rise_NY_story_257-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newsday_Rise_NY_story-257"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Marks and Tiffany Santos established a PAC called Rise NY, which paid RedStone $6,000 in April 2022. It later raised money from many Santos donors who had exceeded the $2,900 limit for direct campaign contributions. PACs are allowed to make unlimited contributions to candidates and parties, but cannot coordinate efforts with campaigns. Rise NY's Twitter account posted accounts of voter registration events and rallies it claimed to have organized during the campaign; Rise NY reported paying salaries to some Santos campaign staff, $10,000 to a company Marks runs, and a $20,000 salary to Tiffany Santos. It also reported multiple expenditures at Il Bacco, the Queens Italian restaurant where Santos's 2022 campaign spent $14,000, and at a gas station near Santos's Whitestone apartment.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_RedStone_story_206-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_RedStone_story-206"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-259" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-259"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>u<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <i>Newsday</i> reported later that, for two months in 2021, Rise made Santos's $2,600 rent payments, and it later paid $1,800 for three tickets for Santos and two guests to attend a gala sponsored by the Liberty Education Forum, a group the PAC gave over $50,000. It also reported $6,500 in payments to Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-Newsday_Rise_NY_story_257-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newsday_Rise_NY_story-257"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The House Ethics Committee, in reviewing bank records for Rise, RedStone and Santos's businesses, found "numerous unreported transfers to and from the campaign bank account" during 2022. Some went to other accounts under Marks's control, $10,000 to the Devolder Organization, and $50,000 went between Rise and the campaign, in amounts exceeding $20,000 at one point.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202328_260-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202328-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Intrater" title="Andrew Intrater">Andrew Intrater</a>, the financier who had lost most of the $625,000 Santos persuaded him to invest in Harbor City, said his $175,000 contribution to Rise NY was underreported to the state by $95,000 until a later amended report.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_missing_$365,000_story_209-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_missing_$365,000_story-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later, he learned that his contributions had amounted to 40 percent of the organization's funding.<sup id="cite_ref-Mother_Jones_Rise_NY_story_261-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mother_Jones_Rise_NY_story-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A $25,000 donation he made to RedStone Strategies, purportedly for a large television ad buy, was never reported to the FEC because RedStone had never registered with it.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_missing_$365,000_story_209-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_missing_$365,000_story-209"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Mother_Jones_(magazine)" title="Mother Jones (magazine)">Mother Jones</a></i> reported at the end of February 2023 that despite no official connection to Rise, Santos regularly solicited contributions to it and in some cases personally delivered checks from it, including two for $62,500 each to the Nassau County and Town of Hempstead Republican committees, suggesting that he had some role with Rise.<sup id="cite_ref-263" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-263"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>v<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In late 2021, over $55,000 Santos raised with the promise of registering voters was instead diverted to Outspoken Middle East, an LGBTQ news platform aimed at that region of the world.<sup id="cite_ref-Mother_Jones_Rise_NY_story_261-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mother_Jones_Rise_NY_story-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Outspoken founder Charles Moran said he had approached Santos asking for financial help; since the contribution was legal for Rise to have made, he accepted it. Former ambassador <a href="/wiki/Richard_Grenell" title="Richard Grenell">Richard Grenell</a> was also involved with starting Outspoken; he spoke at a Santos fundraiser around the same time and formally endorsed Santos in July 2022. Intrater told <i>Mother Jones</i> that he had only learned from them about the diversion and that Santos had told him repeatedly during 2021 that contributions to Rise were being spent to build the Republican Party in New York.<sup id="cite_ref-Mother_Jones_Rise_NY_story_261-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Mother_Jones_Rise_NY_story-261"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Investigations_and_legal_issues">Investigations and legal issues</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="House_Ethics_Committee">House Ethics Committee</h3></div> <p>In January 2023, <a href="/wiki/Ritchie_Torres" title="Ritchie Torres">Ritchie Torres</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dan_Goldman" title="Dan Goldman">Dan Goldman</a>, House Democrats from New York, filed an ethics complaint with the <a href="/wiki/House_Ethics_Committee" class="mw-redirect" title="House Ethics Committee">House Ethics Committee</a> over Santos's financial disclosure reports. In March, the House Ethics Committee announced a formal inquiry and created a subcommittee to investigate allegations of having failed to provide proper financial disclosures to the House, sexual misconduct, and conflict of interest.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Ethics_Committee_story_264-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Ethics_Committee_story-264"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June, the committee announced that it was expanding its investigation to cover the unemployment fraud alleged in the May 2023 federal indictment of Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-265" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-265"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> It announced that it had sought the voluntary cooperation of about 40 witnesses and subpoenaed 30 others.<sup id="cite_ref-266" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-266"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two months later, Rep. <a href="/wiki/Steny_Hoyer" title="Steny Hoyer">Steny Hoyer</a> of Maryland, the most senior Democrat in the House and a former member of the party's leadership, wrote the Ethics Committee asking they make public whatever they had found so far about Santos. "More than enough time has passed for the [committee] to conduct a fair and accurate assessment of the veracity of the allegations against Rep. Santos and of the scope of his misconduct", he said.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_Hoyer_story_267-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_Hoyer_story-267"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>On November 16, the Ethics Committee released its Investigative Subcommittee's report, accusing Santos of fraud similar to what he had already been criminally charged with,<sup id="cite_ref-268" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-268"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> such as diverting campaign funds for personal use, as well as money raised for RedStone Strategies that donors were told would be used on campaigns. The subcommittee listed some of those personal purposes, including over $4,000 to <a href="/wiki/Herm%C3%A9s" class="mw-redirect" title="Hermés">Hermés</a>, plastic surgery and <a href="/wiki/Botox" class="mw-redirect" title="Botox">Botox</a>, payments of personal credit card bills and other debts, travel to <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_City" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlantic City">Atlantic City</a> and <a href="/wiki/Las_Vegas" title="Las Vegas">Las Vegas</a> that had no campaign purpose, and a small amount on <a href="/wiki/OnlyFans" title="OnlyFans">OnlyFans</a> subscriptions. In a news release accompanying the report, the committee said "[it]s investigation revealed a complex web of unlawful activity involving Representative Santos's campaign, personal, and business finances ... [He] sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit." It believed "there was substantial evidence that Representative Santos violated federal criminal laws, some of which are the subject of the pending charges filed against him in court."<sup id="cite_ref-Ethics_Committee_press_release_269-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ethics_Committee_press_release-269"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos subsequently announced he would not run for reelection, although he would remain in Congress for the rest of his term. He called the report "a disgusting politicized smear that shows the depths of how low our federal government has sunk."<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_Ethics_Committee_report_story_94-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_Ethics_Committee_report_story-94"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Brazilian_check_fraud_charges">Brazilian check fraud charges</h3></div> <p>After obtaining his high school equivalency diploma, Santos spent time in Brazil. In 2008, he forged checks, stolen from a man his mother was caring for, to buy <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_real" title="Brazilian real">R$</a>1,313 (about US$700) worth of clothing.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Brazilian_check_fraud_story_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Brazilian_check_fraud_story-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He gave his name as Délio.<sup id="cite_ref-WP_Brazil_story_33-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP_Brazil_story-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> When writing the checks, Santos presented identification bearing his photo but the check owner's name. The store owner became suspicious when the signatures on two checks did not match.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Brazilian_check_fraud_story_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Brazilian_check_fraud_story-18"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A few days later, another young man came in to return a pair of shoes that Délio had bought; the store clerk, who had had to cover the loss, traced Santos through the man's <a href="/wiki/Orkut" title="Orkut">Orkut</a> profile.<sup id="cite_ref-WP_Brazil_story_33-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP_Brazil_story-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos later admitted to the theft in a message to the clerk and confessed to police before he was charged with <a href="/wiki/Check_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Check fraud">check fraud</a> in 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story_51-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The case was archived by a Brazilian court in 2013 because authorities there were unable to locate Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-ForrestRevive_270-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ForrestRevive-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-271" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-271"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In January 2023, <a href="/wiki/Rio_de_Janeiro_(state)" title="Rio de Janeiro (state)">Rio de Janeiro</a> prosecutors announced that they would revive the fraud charges since they knew where Santos was.<sup id="cite_ref-272" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-272"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ForrestRevive_270-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ForrestRevive-270"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In March 2023, prosecutors announced a <a href="/wiki/Plea_bargain" title="Plea bargain">plea bargain</a> with Santos,<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_Brazilian_plea_story_273-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_Brazilian_plea_story-273"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and in May 2023, Santos formally settled the bad check charges; under the agreement, agreeing to pay 24,000 <a href="/wiki/Brazilian_reais" class="mw-redirect" title="Brazilian reais">Brazilian reais</a> (almost US$5,000), with most compensating the defrauded salesman and the remainder donated to charity.<sup id="cite_ref-AP_check_fraud_settlement_story_274-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-AP_check_fraud_settlement_story-274"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Evictions_and_unpaid_judgments">Evictions and unpaid judgments</h3></div> <p>Santos was evicted from rented Queens properties (in Jackson Heights, Whitestone, and <a href="/wiki/Sunnyside,_Queens" title="Sunnyside, Queens">Sunnyside</a>) three times in the mid-2010s over unpaid rent. A onetime roommate described moving into the first apartment in December 2013 after befriending Santos; it had only two bedrooms and one bathroom, and Santos shared it with his mother, sister, and later his boyfriend.<sup id="cite_ref-Curbed_roommate_interview_181-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Curbed_roommate_interview-181"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Morey-Parker recalls that eviction notices were sent monthly,<sup id="cite_ref-Gothamist_evictions_audio_story_275-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gothamist_evictions_audio_story-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> that new roommates rapidly cycled through the apartment,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202359–60_276-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202359–60-276"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and that Santos's personal finances fluctuated wildly: "[He] would go to bars with rolls of hundred dollar bills and, three days later, he would have no money."<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Santos_roommate_story_277-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Santos_roommate_story-277"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos was locked out of the apartment in the summer of 2014 and told the housing court that he needed access to the apartment to feed pet fish, which a former roommate later said had never existed.<sup id="cite_ref-Gothamist_evictions_audio_story_275-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gothamist_evictions_audio_story-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos signed a lease on an apartment in Whitestone in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-Gothamist_evictions_audio_story_275-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gothamist_evictions_audio_story-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Gothamist_mugging_story_188-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gothamist_mugging_story-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In 2023, Pedro Vilarva, who had been Santos's boyfriend at the time, told the <i>Times</i> that Santos claimed he was expecting money from his investment work at <a href="/wiki/Citigroup" title="Citigroup">Citigroup</a>, so Vilarva paid most of the bills, but Santos "never ever actually went to work".<sup id="cite_ref-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story_51-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The relationship soured in early 2015 when Vilarva stopped believing Santos's promises, and after Vilarva came to believe Santos had taken his cell phone to pawn it, he discovered the 2013 Brazilian charges against Santos and moved out.<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Vilarva_story_278-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Vilarva_story-278"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story_51-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-NYT_New_Year&#39;s_Day_story-51"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos remained in the apartment through November of that year, owing a month and a half's rent. His landlady filed for eviction, and he agreed to leave by December 24 and pay her $2,250 in back rent,<sup id="cite_ref-Gothamist_mugging_story_188-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gothamist_mugging_story-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> telling the court that his mother's illness had hindered his ability to work but he would soon be able to repay the money from "business loans".<sup id="cite_ref-Gothamist_evictions_audio_story_275-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gothamist_evictions_audio_story-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In mid-January 2016, he told Queens Housing Court that he was mugged on his way to make the payment, but police were unable to take a report at the time, telling him to return later. The <a href="/wiki/New_York_City_Police_Department" title="New York City Police Department">New York City Police Department</a> (NYPD) has no record of the incident.<sup id="cite_ref-Gothamist_mugging_story_188-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gothamist_mugging_story-188"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 2015, a <a href="/wiki/Small_claims_court" title="Small claims court">small claims court</a> judge ordered Santos to pay Peter Hamilton $5,000 plus interest to repay a loan Hamilton made to Santos in September 2014 for moving expenses. In December 2022, Hamilton told <i>The Times</i> that the judgment had not been paid.<sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In his third known eviction case, a Queens court entered a civil judgment of $12,208 against him in 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Claimed_Real_Estate_Cred_279-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Claimed_Real_Estate_Cred-279"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In housing court, he said he would seek emergency rental assistance.<sup id="cite_ref-Gothamist_evictions_audio_story_275-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Gothamist_evictions_audio_story-275"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos told the <i>Post</i> that his mother's illness had forced his family into debt at the time; as of December 2022 he had yet to pay the rent he owed, saying he "completely forgot about it".<sup id="cite_ref-Eidler_141-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eidler-141"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Friends_of_Pets_United">Friends of Pets United</h3></div> <p>Santos claimed to have <a href="/wiki/Animal_rescue_group" title="Animal rescue group">rescued</a> over 2,500 animals as founder and operator of a charity called Friends of Pets United (FOPU) from 2013 to 2018. FOPU activities are poorly documented, and in 2022, <i>The Times</i> found little evidence of its existence other than a closed Facebook account; former volunteers and associates described it as disorganized and said that far fewer animals were saved. FOPU held fundraising events and donated money to other rescue groups, but several recipients said they received significantly less than what Santos promised. Santos told many people that FOPU was a legitimate charity, but it never received <a href="/wiki/Non-profit" class="mw-redirect" title="Non-profit">non-profit</a> tax-exempt status from the IRS, was not registered as a charity with the state of New York, and never registered with the <a href="/wiki/New_York_State_Department_of_Agriculture_and_Markets" title="New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets">New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets</a> as required of animal rescue groups from September 2017. The contractor providing animal-related services to New York City said that it never dealt with FOPU, and the group was not authorized to take dogs from city shelters. Santos said in February 2023 that he "never handled the finances" of FOPU, although its volunteers and groups that dealt with FOPU said that he seemed to be the only person who did so. All mentions of FOPU were removed from Santos's official biographies as his other claims began to be widely questioned by the media.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_FOPU_story_280-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_FOPU_story-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos's biographer described FOPU primarily as a vehicle for selling puppies from Santos's personal <a href="/wiki/Golden_Retriever" title="Golden Retriever">Golden Retriever</a> and those he obtained from commercial breeders, and as a means for Santos to conduct unaccountable fundraising in the name of other, better known rescue groups.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202376_281-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202376-281"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Theft_charges">Theft charges</h4></div> <p>In November 2017, Santos was charged with theft by deception in <a href="/wiki/York_County,_Pennsylvania" title="York County, Pennsylvania">York County, Pennsylvania</a>, after bad checks were written to an <a href="/wiki/Amish" title="Amish">Amish</a> dog breeder from his account. Days after he gave the breeder a $15,125 check for "puppies", Santos and FOPU hosted an adoption event at a pet store. After the check bounced, the Pennsylvania charge was brought against him. Tiffany Bogosian, a school friend of Santos's from Queens, assisted in getting the charges dropped after he told her that his checkbook had been stolen in 2017 and he had received an <a href="/wiki/Extradition_law_in_the_United_States#Interstate_extradition" title="Extradition law in the United States">extradition</a> warrant from Pennsylvania at his New York address in 2020. She successfully argued that the signatures on the checks were not Santos's, and the case against Santos was dismissed in May 2021, after Santos ultimately paid the farmer who lodged the police report.<sup id="cite_ref-JSweet_282-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JSweet-282"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Amish_dog_story_283-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Amish_dog_story-283"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Times_dog-theft_story_284-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_dog-theft_story-284"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Amish_285-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amish-285"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos's record was <a href="/wiki/Expungement" title="Expungement">expunged</a> in November 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-JSweet_282-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-JSweet-282"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In February 2023, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> reported that three other Amish dog breeders allegedly were never paid by Santos but never filed police reports.<sup id="cite_ref-Amish_285-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amish-285"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Allegations_of_mishandling_funds">Allegations of mishandling funds</h4></div> <p>In January 2023, retired U.S. Navy veteran Richard Osthoff and retired police officer Michael Boll accused Santos of having stolen funds that were donated to a <a href="/wiki/GoFundMe" title="GoFundMe">GoFundMe</a> fundraiser. In May 2016, Osthoff was homeless and was told that surgery to remove a life-threatening stomach tumor from his <a href="/wiki/Service_dog" class="mw-redirect" title="Service dog">service dog</a> would cost $3,000. A <a href="/wiki/Veterinary_technician" class="mw-redirect" title="Veterinary technician">veterinary technician</a> recommended that he contact the owner of FOPU, Anthony Devolder, one of Santos's aliases, who then set up a GoFundMe page. After the fundraiser had reached its goal of $3,000 in June, Santos closed it and withdrew the money. Osthoff, Boll, and GoFundMe received no funds, and the dog died in January 2017.<sup id="cite_ref-286" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-286"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>264<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-287" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-287"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-alias_288-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alias-288"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> GoFundMe banned Santos, who had organized the fundraiser, at the end of 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-alias_288-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-alias-288"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos denied swindling Osthoff;<sup id="cite_ref-Semafor_dead_dog_denial_289-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Semafor_dead_dog_denial-289"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>267<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> in October 2023 he denied even knowing him to the <i>Times</i>, which reported having text messages suggesting otherwise.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Ashford_call_story_191-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Ashford_call_story-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The FBI is investigating Osthoff's allegations.<sup id="cite_ref-290" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-290"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>268<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The veterinary technician who had recommended Santos to Osthoff said that Santos later offered to raise funds to repair her farm in New Jersey so that it could be used for <a href="/wiki/Animal_rescue_group" title="Animal rescue group">animal rescue</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_FOPU_story_280-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_FOPU_story-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> FOPU held a 2017 fundraiser event, charging $50 per attendee, eventually raising $2,165, with Santos controlling the money.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_FOPU_story_280-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_FOPU_story-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The veterinary technician said that Santos was elusive and never gave her any of the proceeds, instead only giving excuses for not transferring the money.<sup id="cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Times_FOPU_story_280-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_FOPU_story-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The owner of a <a href="/wiki/Staten_Island" title="Staten Island">Staten Island</a> pet store told the <i>Times</i> that, after a successful series of fundraisers, Santos, known as Anthony Devolder to the store owner, asked the owner to make the check out to him personally rather than FOPU. The owner refused but later saw that on the payee line of the canceled check, "FOPU" had been crossed out and replaced with "Anthony Devolder".<sup id="cite_ref-Times_FOPU_story_280-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_FOPU_story-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>A pet rescue operator in <a href="/wiki/The_Bronx" title="The Bronx">the Bronx</a> told the <i>Times</i> that after Santos had boasted of his Wall Street experience and connections to her to assure her he could raise thousands of dollars for her organization, he held a fundraiser in March 2017 and then sent her a check for $400. She stopped working with him, believing he was either overpromising or skimming.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_FOPU_story_280-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_FOPU_story-280"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Credit-card_skimming">Credit-card skimming</h3></div> <p>CBS has reported that Santos's name came up in a 2017 international <a href="/wiki/Credit_card_fraud#Skimming" title="Credit card fraud">credit card skimming</a> scheme perpetrated by Brazilians in <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>. After Gustavo Ribeiro Trelha, a Brazilian living in <a href="/wiki/Orlando,_Florida" title="Orlando, Florida">Orlando</a>, was arrested using a card skimmer at an automatic teller machine, a search of his car found an empty FedEx box with the return address written being one of Santos's former residences in <a href="/wiki/Winter_Park,_Florida" title="Winter Park, Florida">Winter Park</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_News_skimming_story_291-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBS_News_skimming_story-291"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which Trelha was later reported to have jointly leased with Santos,<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_Seattle_story_292-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico_Seattle_story-292"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> the same one given on a Florida traffic ticket issued to Santos in October 2016.<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_News_skimming_story_291-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBS_News_skimming_story-291"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> CBS later reported that two <a href="/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service" title="United States Secret Service">Secret Service</a> agents interviewed Santos in New York; he voluntarily surrendered two of his cellphones to them. The case remains open, but as of February 2023 Santos has not been identified as a suspect.<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_News_Secret_Service_story_293-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBS_News_Secret_Service_story-293"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>271<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the story was reported in 2023, Trelha made a sworn declaration to the FBI that he had committed the crime at the urging of Santos, who had also taught him how to set up the skimmer and camera necessary to steal passwords and how to clone ATM and credit cards. The two had an agreement to split the proceeds, Trelha said, but after his arrest Santos kept all the money for himself, reneging on a promise to hire a top defense lawyer and pay Trelha's bail. At the time he said he declined to tell federal authorities as Santos had threatened to report his Orlando roommates to immigration authorities as they were in the U.S. illegally.<sup id="cite_ref-Politico_Trelha_story_294-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Politico_Trelha_story-294"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-297" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-297"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>w<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos told reporters the day after <i>Politico</i> reported the declaration that he was innocent, saying, "Never did anything of criminal activity, and I have no mastermind event." He said he had only met Trelha "a couple of times in my life" and that he had willingly assisted every law enforcement agency that contacted him: "Got information for them. Got everybody arrested and deported."<sup id="cite_ref-CNN_Santos_Trelha_reaction_298-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CNN_Santos_Trelha_reaction-298"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>275<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sexual_harassment_allegation">Sexual harassment allegation</h3></div> <p>Also in February 2023, Derek Myers, the prospective staffer who secretly recorded Santos admitting "errors of judgment" in making some of his claims, filed a <a href="/wiki/Sexual_harassment" title="Sexual harassment">sexual harassment</a> complaint against Santos with the House Ethics Committee, alleging Santos had touched his groin inappropriately while inviting him out to a <a href="/wiki/Karaoke_bar" class="mw-redirect" title="Karaoke bar">karaoke bar</a> and telling Myers that his husband was out of town. Myers also alleged that Santos had violated House rules by having him work as a volunteer for a week before his paperwork was processed.<sup id="cite_ref-299" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-299"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>276<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos denied the allegation. In June, Myers told the Ethics Committee that he had gotten the job after sending seven payments of $150 each to Santos's director of operations.<sup id="cite_ref-300" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-300"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>277<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In its November report, the committee said it could not substantiate the allegation. Myers (unnamed in the report) had said the incident occurred while he and Santos were alone in the office going over mail from constituents. However, witnesses told the committee that staff did not want someone from outside the office going over mail, and that Santos had never been alone with Myers that day. The committee also noted inconsistencies in Myers's testimony to them, and his admission that after the incident he reported it to the FBI in the hope of collecting money as an informant.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202351–52_301-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202351–52-301"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>278<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Federal_prosecution">Federal prosecution</h2></div> <p>In May 2023, a grand jury in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_New_York" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York">U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York</a> indicted Santos on 13 criminal charges: seven counts of <a href="/wiki/Wire_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Wire fraud">wire fraud</a>, three counts of <a href="/wiki/Money_laundering" title="Money laundering">money laundering</a>, one count of <a href="/wiki/Theft_of_government_property" title="Theft of government property">theft of public funds</a>, and two counts of <a href="/wiki/Making_false_statements" title="Making false statements">making materially false statements</a> to the House of Representatives. Prosecutors accused Santos of "three distinct schemes": fraudulent solicitation of political contributions, unemployment benefits fraud, and making false statements on the financial disclosure reports he submitted to the House of Representatives. In the fraudulent solicitation scheme, Santos allegedly persuaded two supporters to donate $25,000 each to a limited liability company controlled by him and then used the money for personal expenses. He told them it was a <a href="/wiki/Super_PAC" title="Super PAC">Super PAC</a> and that the money would buy TV ads to support his campaign. During the <a href="/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic" title="COVID-19 pandemic">COVID-19 pandemic</a>, Santos also allegedly obtained a total of $24,000 in <a href="/wiki/Unemployment_benefits" title="Unemployment benefits">unemployment benefits</a> from mid-2020 to April 2021 while drawing an annual salary of $120,000.<sup id="cite_ref-trade_302-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trade-302"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>279<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-303" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-303"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>280<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the arraignment the day the indictment was unsealed, Santos pleaded not guilty and was granted <a href="/wiki/Pretrial_release" class="mw-redirect" title="Pretrial release">pretrial release</a> on a $500,000 bond with conditions, including surrendering his <a href="/wiki/United_States_passport" title="United States passport">passport</a> and restricting his travel to Long Island, New York City, and Washington, D.C. Afterwards, he told reporters that this was a "witch hunt" and that he was still running for reelection in 2024.<sup id="cite_ref-trade_302-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-trade-302"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>279<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-304" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-304"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>281<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Charged_With_Conspiracy_305-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Charged_With_Conspiracy-305"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>282<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Prosecutors turned over 80,000 pages of material to Santos's lawyers by June 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-306" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-306"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>The names of the guarantors of Santos's $500,000 <a href="/wiki/Bail_bond" class="mw-redirect" title="Bail bond">bail bond</a> were initially <a href="/wiki/Under_seal" title="Under seal">under seal</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-guarantors_307-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guarantors-307"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Media outlets sought to unseal the names of the guarantors, a motion Santos opposed.<sup id="cite_ref-guarantors_307-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guarantors-307"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-308" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-308"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>285<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> District Judge <a href="/wiki/Joanna_Seybert" title="Joanna Seybert">Joanna Seybert</a> denied Santos's appeal and ordered the names unsealed; they were revealed to be Santos's father Gercino dos Santos Jr. and aunt Elma Santos Prevenand.<sup id="cite_ref-reveal_309-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reveal-309"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-310" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-310"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>287<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> They had not been required to put up any cash or property as collateral for the bond but would be liable for the entire amount if Santos fled.<sup id="cite_ref-guarantors_307-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guarantors-307"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-reveal_309-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-reveal-309"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In August 2023, Santos said he would not consider a plea deal at the time,<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_plea_deal_nix_story_184-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_plea_deal_nix_story-184"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but a month later prosecutors told the judge that they were both sharing substantial new evidence with Santos and his lawyer while looking at "possible paths forward" with them, raising speculation regarding a possible plea deal,<sup id="cite_ref-Times_paths_forward_story_311-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_paths_forward_story-311"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>288<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> which Santos has denied.<sup id="cite_ref-312" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-312"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>289<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Marks's guilty plea in October was seen as an ominous development for Santos, who was referred to as "Co-Conspirator No. 1" in her plea agreement, due to the falsifications in his campaign finance reports she admitted to making. "One way or another, the government is going to use that information in his case", said one law professor. Kappel said it was "bad news" for him, noting that the lack of a provision in the agreement that she continue cooperating may indicate that the government has enough evidence implicating Santos to believe her testimony would not be needed to convict him.<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_News_Franks_plea_story_313-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBS_News_Franks_plea_story-313"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Her plea agreement alluded to text and email exchanges between her and Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Marks_plea_story_242-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Marks_plea_story-242"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Superseding_indictment">Superseding indictment</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:USA_v._George_Anthony_Devolder_Santos,_aka,_George_Santos-Superseding_Indictment-2023-10-10-Doc_Num_050-Main_Document%3Dgov.uscourts.nyed.497086.50.0_1.pdf" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/USA_v._George_Anthony_Devolder_Santos%2C_aka%2C_George_Santos-Superseding_Indictment-2023-10-10-Doc_Num_050-Main_Document%3Dgov.uscourts.nyed.497086.50.0_1.pdf/page1-220px-USA_v._George_Anthony_Devolder_Santos%2C_aka%2C_George_Santos-Superseding_Indictment-2023-10-10-Doc_Num_050-Main_Document%3Dgov.uscourts.nyed.497086.50.0_1.pdf.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="288" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/USA_v._George_Anthony_Devolder_Santos%2C_aka%2C_George_Santos-Superseding_Indictment-2023-10-10-Doc_Num_050-Main_Document%3Dgov.uscourts.nyed.497086.50.0_1.pdf/page1-330px-USA_v._George_Anthony_Devolder_Santos%2C_aka%2C_George_Santos-Superseding_Indictment-2023-10-10-Doc_Num_050-Main_Document%3Dgov.uscourts.nyed.497086.50.0_1.pdf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/94/USA_v._George_Anthony_Devolder_Santos%2C_aka%2C_George_Santos-Superseding_Indictment-2023-10-10-Doc_Num_050-Main_Document%3Dgov.uscourts.nyed.497086.50.0_1.pdf/page1-440px-USA_v._George_Anthony_Devolder_Santos%2C_aka%2C_George_Santos-Superseding_Indictment-2023-10-10-Doc_Num_050-Main_Document%3Dgov.uscourts.nyed.497086.50.0_1.pdf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1268" data-file-height="1658" /></a><figcaption>Superseding indictment filed October 10, 2023 (document number 50 of the case)</figcaption></figure> <p>Five days after Marks's plea, prosecutors filed a superseding indictment, alleging 10 additional felonies committed by Santos including conspiracy against the United States, <a href="/wiki/Wire_fraud" class="mw-redirect" title="Wire fraud">wire fraud</a>, aggravated identity theft, credit card fraud, and <a href="/wiki/Money_laundering" title="Money laundering">money laundering</a>. These charges stemmed from not only the same effort to deceive the RNC that Marks had admitted to, but the unauthorized use of donor credit cards, the money raised by RedStone by lying about its political status and the purpose of the spending, much of which Santos allegedly converted to personal spending on clothing and other luxury items. In an October 27 court appearance, Santos pleaded not guilty to the new charges.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_second_indictment_story_207-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_second_indictment_story-207"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-314" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-314"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>291<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos learned of the additional charges when questioned by reporters after leaving a <a href="/wiki/House_Republican_Conference" title="House Republican Conference">House Republican Conference</a> meeting where he said he had not had access to his phone. He called them "bullshit" and explained that he had not handled any of his campaign finance reports. "I didn't even know what the hell the FEC was" when he first ran for office, Santos said.<sup id="cite_ref-Slate_2nd_indictment_story_315-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Slate_2nd_indictment_story-315"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>292<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Later he attributed them to Marks's mistakes and malfeasance.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Ashford_call_story_191-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Ashford_call_story-191"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-317" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-317"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>x<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In May 2024, Santos moved to have some of the charges dismissed. The dismissal relied on the Supreme Court ruling in the <a href="/wiki/Dubin_v._United_States" title="Dubin v. United States">Dubin case</a> that narrowed the applicability of the identity theft statute to cases where the act was at the crux of a <a href="/wiki/Predicate_offense" class="mw-redirect" title="Predicate offense">predicate offense</a>. His attorneys therefore argued that even if Santos had used the names of others in his FEC filings and credit card charges, as alleged in the indictment, that would not constitute an aggravated identity theft.<sup id="cite_ref-Newsday_dismissal_motion_story_318-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Newsday_dismissal_motion_story-318"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>294<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Guilty_plea">Guilty plea</h3></div> <p>On August 19, 2024, Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft as part of a plea deal in which he also admitted to committing the other crimes with which he was charged in the superseding indictment. "I accept full responsibility for my actions", he told the judge. "I allowed my ambition to cloud my judgment, leading me to make decisions that were unethical and—guilty."<sup id="cite_ref-Times_guilty_plea_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_guilty_plea-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-319" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-319"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>295<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos was initially scheduled for sentencing on February 7, 2025. <a href="/wiki/Federal_sentencing_guidelines" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal sentencing guidelines">Federal sentencing guidelines</a> call for 6–8 years for the charges he pleaded to,<sup id="cite_ref-Times_guilty_plea_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_guilty_plea-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> with a possible maximum of 22 years.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_guilty_plea_320-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters_guilty_plea-320"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>296<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He will also be required to pay nearly $375,000 in restitution to victims and forfeit an additional $205,000; if he cannot pay the latter amount his property may be seized.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_guilty_plea_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_guilty_plea-2"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> A month before the sentencing, he asked for it to be postponed six months so he can make enough money from his podcast to pay the restitution.<sup id="cite_ref-WABC-TV_sentencing_delay_motion_story_321-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WABC-TV_sentencing_delay_motion_story-321"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>297<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The judge set a new sentencing date of April 25, 10 weeks later.<sup id="cite_ref-CBS_News_sentencing_postponement_story_322-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-CBS_News_sentencing_postponement_story-322"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>298<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>According to <a href="/wiki/Breon_Peace" title="Breon Peace">Breon Peace</a>, <a href="/wiki/United_States_Attorney_for_the_Eastern_District_of_New_York" title="United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York">United States attorney for the Eastern District of New York</a>, the plea agreement was secured when Santos agreed to serve at least the two-year minimum required under law for the identity theft charges. While Santos only agreed to plead to two of the 23 counts in the indictment, his admission to the other charges means they can be considered in his sentencing. Peace said Santos also agreed not to appeal any sentence less than eight years.<sup id="cite_ref-Reuters_guilty_plea_320-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reuters_guilty_plea-320"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>296<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-congressional_career">Post-congressional career</h2></div> <p>Within three days after his expulsion from Congress, Santos started offering personalized videos on the website <a href="/wiki/Cameo_(website)" title="Cameo (website)">Cameo</a>. Steven Galanis, one of the co-founders of the website, said that Santos's videos represented one of "the best launches that [the website] ever had". It was noted that the videos could potentially earn him well over "the $174,000 salary he earned as a member of Congress".<sup id="cite_ref-Fortune_Dec_20_323-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fortune_Dec_20-323"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>299<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Senator <a href="/wiki/John_Fetterman" title="John Fetterman">John Fetterman</a> spent $343 for a Cameo video from George Santos, as a prank against his colleague, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Menendez" title="Bob Menendez">Bob Menendez</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-324" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-324"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>300<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Comedian <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel" title="Jimmy Kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a> paid for videos to see if "there's a line [that Santos] wouldn't cross". Kimmel aired some of the videos on <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel_Live!" title="Jimmy Kimmel Live!">his show</a>, after which Santos demanded $20,000 for the right to broadcast, which Kimmel refused to pay.<sup id="cite_ref-325" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-325"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>301<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In response, Santos filed suit in February 2024 against Kimmel, <a href="/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> (Kimmel's employer), and the <a href="/wiki/Walt_Disney_Company" class="mw-redirect" title="Walt Disney Company">Walt Disney Company</a> (ABC's owner) for $750,000, claiming that Kimmel intended to "ridicule" Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-326" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-326"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>302<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> On August 19, 2024, a judge dismissed the suit, saying that Kimmel's actions constituted "political commentary and criticism," which is protected under the <a href="/wiki/Fair_use" title="Fair use">fair use</a> doctrine.<sup id="cite_ref-327" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-327"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>303<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-328" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-328"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>304<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2023, <i><a href="/wiki/The_Late_Show_with_Stephen_Colbert" title="The Late Show with Stephen Colbert">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert</a></i> parodied the way Santos offered to play the role of "Santos Claus" in his videos.<sup id="cite_ref-329" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-329"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>305<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos announced in April 2024 that he would revive his Kitara drag persona for Cameo videos, promising to donate to charity 20% of the proceeds.<sup id="cite_ref-Hill_Kitara_story_330-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hill_Kitara_story-330"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>306<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Tunnel_to_Towers_Foundation" title="Tunnel to Towers Foundation">Tunnel to Towers Foundation</a>, one of the charities Santos said proceeds from the Cameos would be donated to, said he had not informed them of his plans prior to making his announcement.<sup id="cite_ref-TNR_T2T_story_331-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TNR_T2T_story-331"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>307<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Two months later, Santos announced that he had started an <a href="/wiki/OnlyFans" title="OnlyFans">OnlyFans</a> account,<sup id="cite_ref-332" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-332"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>308<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> but the account would not feature any sexual content and would rather be a "behind-the-scenes" look on his life and work.<sup id="cite_ref-333" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-333"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>309<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December, Santos launched a <a href="/wiki/Podcast" title="Podcast">podcast</a>, "Pants on Fire", with liberal cohost Naja Hall and him discussing various issues. The weekend before the first episode, a video was uploaded showing someone throwing coffee on Santos as he walked through <a href="/wiki/Times_Square" title="Times Square">Times Square</a>. Santos later admitted the incident was staged to promote the podcast and that he had not intended for it to be uploaded.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_podcast_story_334-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_podcast_story-334"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>310<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2></div> <p>Santos is openly gay.<sup id="cite_ref-ABC_boyfriends_story_335-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC_boyfriends_story-335"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>311<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-336" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-336"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>312<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He was married to a woman from 2012 to 2019,<sup id="cite_ref-VFmarriage_337-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-VFmarriage-337"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>313<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> despite previously being <a href="/wiki/Coming_out" title="Coming out">out</a>, but lived with men he was involved with from 2013 on.<sup id="cite_ref-ABC_boyfriends_story_335-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ABC_boyfriends_story-335"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>311<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos did not widely acknowledge his marriage to the woman, a Brazilian national,<sup id="cite_ref-Times_marriage_story_338-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_marriage_story-338"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>314<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> until it was reported in December 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-wife_info_339-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-wife_info-339"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>315<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> In statements acknowledging the marriage, Santos said that he loved his then wife; however, he also said that he had been comfortably and openly gay for at least the preceding decade, an assertion broadly supported by friends, former coworkers, and roommates.<sup id="cite_ref-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History_90-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Times_marriage_story_338-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_marriage_story-338"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>314<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-340" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-340"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>316<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Morey-Parker said that in 2014, the pair were on friendly terms and often socialized with him and others. Santos did not deny the marriage, but Santos was also open about his romance with his then-boyfriend and told friends about it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202368_341-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202368-341"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>317<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Santos's coworkers at Dish, who understood him to be gay, speculated in 2012 that perhaps he got married to access his claimed familial wealth, to appease his family's concerns about his sexuality, or to help his wife with her immigration status.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202310–11_342-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202310–11-342"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>318<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Adriana Parizzi, who was a close friend of Santos from Brazil and roommate of his early on in the marriage, says the marriage was purely for immigration purposes and that Santos was paid $20,000 for it. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i> reported that three of Santos's former roommates confirmed this. Santos has denied the allegation.<sup id="cite_ref-WP_Brazil_story_33-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WP_Brazil_story-33"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Records show that a filing to dissolve the marriage in May 2013 was withdrawn in December of the same year. Four months later, Santos filed a family-based immigration petition on his wife's behalf; it was approved in July 2014, typically seen as a sign that <a href="/wiki/United_States_Citizenship_and_Immigration_Services" title="United States Citizenship and Immigration Services">United States Citizenship and Immigration Services</a> believed the marriage was valid.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_marriage_story_338-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_marriage_story-338"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>314<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> According to Santos's biographer, the woman has steadfastly refused to talk to the media about her relationship with Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202311–12_343-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202311–12-343"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>319<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2020, Santos said he was living with a partner named Matheus Gerard,<sup id="cite_ref-Times_guarantors_appeal_story_344-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_guarantors_appeal_story-344"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>320<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> whom he has subsequently called his husband.<sup id="cite_ref-OddJobBadDebt_159-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-OddJobBadDebt-159"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-folha_345-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-folha-345"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>321<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Santos says the couple wed in November 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_guarantors_appeal_story_344-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_guarantors_appeal_story-344"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>320<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_popular_culture">In popular culture</h2></div> <p>On January 21, 2023, <i><a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a></i> featured <a href="/wiki/Bowen_Yang" title="Bowen Yang">Bowen Yang</a> as Santos in its <a href="/wiki/Cold_open#Comedy" title="Cold open">cold open</a> and <i><a href="/wiki/Weekend_Update" title="Weekend Update">Weekend Update</a></i> segments.<sup id="cite_ref-346" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-346"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>322<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Yang reprised the role on the March 11, 2023, cold open that parodied the red carpet at the <a href="/wiki/95th_Academy_Awards" title="95th Academy Awards">2023 Oscars</a>, where Santos would claim to be <a href="/wiki/Tom_Cruise" title="Tom Cruise">Tom Cruise</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-347" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-347"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>323<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He returned on October 21, holding a baby during the cold open built around Rep. <a href="/wiki/Jim_Jordan" title="Jim Jordan">Jim Jordan</a>'s failed bid to become Speaker of the House,<sup id="cite_ref-348" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-348"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>324<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> and again on December 3 in the cold open about Santos's expulsion from Congress.<sup id="cite_ref-349" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-349"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>325<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>Comedian <a href="/wiki/Jon_Lovitz" title="Jon Lovitz">Jon Lovitz</a> portrayed Santos on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Tonight_Show_Starring_Jimmy_Fallon" title="The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon">The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon</a></i>, which resulted in a brief Twitter feud between the two.<sup id="cite_ref-350" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-350"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>326<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Harvey_Guill%C3%A9n" title="Harvey Guillén">Harvey Guillén</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nelson_Franklin" title="Nelson Franklin">Nelson Franklin</a> parodied Santos on <i><a href="/wiki/The_Late_Show_with_Stephen_Colbert" title="The Late Show with Stephen Colbert">The Late Show with Stephen Colbert</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel_Live!" title="Jimmy Kimmel Live!">Jimmy Kimmel Live!</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-351" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-351"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>327<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> While hosting the <a href="/wiki/95th_Academy_Awards" title="95th Academy Awards">95th Academy Awards</a> on March 12, 2023, <a href="/wiki/Jimmy_Kimmel" title="Jimmy Kimmel">Jimmy Kimmel</a> joked that Santos was the "last directing team to win an Oscar."<sup id="cite_ref-352" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-352"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>328<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2023, a movie on his life was reported to be in development by <a href="/wiki/Frank_Rich" title="Frank Rich">Frank Rich</a> for <a href="/wiki/HBO_Films" title="HBO Films">HBO Films</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-353" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-353"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>329<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-354" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-354"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>330<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Electoral_history">Electoral history</h2></div> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2020 New York's 3rd congressional district election<sup id="cite_ref-2020_General_Results_78-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2020_General_Results-78"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><i>Tom Suozzi</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right">196,056 </td> <td style="text-align:right">52.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#f598e2;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Working_Families_Party" title="Working Families Party">Working Families</a> </td> <td class="fn"><i>Tom Suozzi</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right">9,203 </td> <td style="text-align:right">2.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FFC14E;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Independence_Party_of_New_York" title="Independence Party of New York">Independence</a> </td> <td class="fn"><i>Tom Suozzi</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right">3,296 </td> <td style="text-align:right">0.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><b>Total </b> </td> <td class="fn"><b><a href="/wiki/Tom_Suozzi" title="Tom Suozzi">Tom Suozzi</a> (incumbent) </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>208,555 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>56.0 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><i>George Santos</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right">147,461 </td> <td style="text-align:right">39.6 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF8C00;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_New_York_State" title="Conservative Party of New York State">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><i>George Santos</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right">14,470 </td> <td style="text-align:right">3.9 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="width:2px;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px">Total </td> <td class="fn">George Santos </td> <td style="text-align:right;">161,931 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">43.5 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FED105;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Libertarian_Party_of_New_York" title="Libertarian Party of New York">Libertarian</a> </td> <td class="fn">Howard Rabin </td> <td style="text-align:right">2,156 </td> <td style="text-align:right">0.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>372,642 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100 </b> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color:#F6F6F6"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#3333FF"> </td> <td colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> <b>hold</b> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <table class="wikitable plainrowheaders" style="; margin-right:1em; font-size:95%"> <caption>2022 New York's 3rd congressional district election<sup id="cite_ref-2022_General_Results_89-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2022_General_Results-89"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col" colspan="2" style="width: 15em">Party </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 17em">Candidate </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 5em">Votes </th> <th scope="col" style="width: 3.5em">% </th></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#E81B23;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> </td> <td class="fn"><i>George Santos</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right">133,859 </td> <td style="text-align:right">49.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#FF8C00;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_of_New_York_State" title="Conservative Party of New York State">Conservative</a> </td> <td class="fn"><i>George Santos</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right">11,965 </td> <td style="text-align:right">4.4 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px"><b>Total </b> </td> <td class="fn"><b>George Santos </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>145,824 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right; margin-right:0.5em"><b>53.8 </b> </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#3333FF;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td> <td class="fn"><i>Rob Zimmerman</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right">120,045 </td> <td style="text-align:right">44.3 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="color:inherit;background-color:#f598e2;width:2px"> </td> <td class="org" style="width:130px"><a href="/wiki/Working_Families_Party" title="Working Families Party">Working Families</a> </td> <td class="fn"><i>Rob Zimmerman</i> </td> <td style="text-align:right">5,359 </td> <td style="text-align:right">2.0 </td></tr> <tr class="vcard"> <td style="width:2px;background-color:#E9E9E9"> </td> <td class="org" style="width: 130px">Total </td> <td class="fn">Rob Zimmerman </td> <td style="text-align:right;">125,404 </td> <td style="text-align:right;">46.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:right;">Total votes </th> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>271,228 </b> </td> <td style="text-align:right;"><b>100 </b> </td></tr> <tr style="background-color: #F6F6F6;"> <td style="color:inherit; background-color:#E81B23;"> </td> <td colspan="4"><a href="/wiki/Republican_Party_(United_States)" title="Republican Party (United States)">Republican</a> <b>gain</b> from <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> </td></tr> </tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Awards_and_nominations">Awards and nominations</h2></div> <table class="wikitable" style="text-align:center;"> <tbody><tr> <th>Year </th> <th>Ceremony </th> <th>Category </th> <th>Work </th> <th>Result </th> <th><abbr title="Reference(s)">Ref.</abbr> </th></tr> <tr> <td>Dec 2024 </td> <td><a href="/wiki/The_Streamer_Awards" title="The Streamer Awards">The Streamer Awards</a> </td> <td>Best Streamed Collab </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Fortnite_Battle_Royale" title="Fortnite Battle Royale">Fortnite</a> Friday with ConnorEatsPants </td> <td style="background: #FFE3E3; color: black; vertical-align: middle; text-align: center;" class="no table-no2 notheme">Nominated </td> <td><sup id="cite_ref-:10_355-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:10-355"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>331<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-:9_356-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:9-356"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>332<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Anna_Paulina_Luna" title="Anna Paulina Luna">Anna Paulina Luna</a>, Florida congresswoman whose personal history claims are disputed</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Ogles" title="Andy Ogles">Andy Ogles</a>, Tennessee congressman whose personal history claims are disputed</li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/The_Distinguished_Gentleman" title="The Distinguished Gentleman">The Distinguished Gentleman</a></i>, 1992 comedy film about a con man played by <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Murphy" title="Eddie Murphy">Eddie Murphy</a> getting elected to Congress</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Douglas_R._Stringfellow" title="Douglas R. Stringfellow">Douglas R. Stringfellow</a>, one-term Utah congressman whose personal history fabrications were revealed</li> <li><a href="/wiki/GaaSyy" title="GaaSyy">GaaSyy</a>, Japanese <a href="/wiki/The_Collaborative_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="The Collaborative Party">NHK</a> politician and YouTuber, expelled from the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Councillors" title="House of Councillors">House of Councillors</a> in 2023</li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_LGBTQ_members_of_the_United_States_Congress" title="List of LGBTQ members of the United States Congress">List of LGBTQ members of the United States Congress</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_LGBT_people_from_New_York_City" class="mw-redirect" title="List of LGBT people from New York City">List of LGBT people from New York City</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_States_representatives_expelled,_censured,_or_reprimanded" title="List of United States representatives expelled, censured, or reprimanded">List of United States representatives expelled, censured, or reprimanded</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> </div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">While Santos has used various aliases, he was charged in the <a href="/wiki/United_States_District_Court_for_the_Eastern_District_of_New_York" title="United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York">United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York</a> under the name "George Anthony Devolder Santos".<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><p>He told <a href="/wiki/Piers_Morgan" title="Piers Morgan">Piers Morgan</a> that his parents could not agree on his first name, so they gave him both. His mother preferred Anthony, and always used it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202329_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202329-5"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> He used different name combinations at different times, settling on George Santos shortly before his first run for Congress at the suggestion of a local Republican activist, who <a href="/wiki/Euphony" class="mw-redirect" title="Euphony">liked the sound of it</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano2023xxviii_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano2023xxviii-6"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> </p></span></li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Santos later claimed, in support of his opposition to abortion, that his <a href="/wiki/Premature_birth" class="mw-redirect" title="Premature birth">birth was premature</a>, at 24 weeks of gestation. It could not be determined if this was true.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202315_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202315-9"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fatima reportedly left one of the latter positions, in the home of Charles Goodman, son of Marvel Comics founder <a href="/wiki/Martin_Goodman_(publisher)" title="Martin Goodman (publisher)">Martin</a>, abruptly after questions were raised about missing items.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202325_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202325-15"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">His mother's U.S. immigration records do not indicate that she ever became <a href="/wiki/Naturalization" title="Naturalization">naturalized</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202323_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202323-19"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-28"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-28">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"> <ul><li>"It's always a pebble of truth and a mountain of lies" with him, one relative said.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano2023xxi_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano2023xxi-24"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>Fátima responded with "Oh God, Anthony and his stories" when asked to confirm one of them by a former roommate of Santos, after which she advised her interlocutor not to believe George's accounts of his past.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano2023xvii_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano2023xvii-25"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>He reportedly kept money his aunt gave him to pay some of her bills; she did not find out until she received notice that they were overdue (She has never spoken on the record about her nephew).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202321-22_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202321-22-26"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>On two separate occasions, including one where he stopped someone from taking a bag of his own important papers at George's behest, Gercino advised people to be careful regarding their dealings with him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202329,_31_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202329,_31-27"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-35"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-35">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Shy and effeminate" as a child, a relative says, Santos was bullied by cousins; his family was not comfortable with his sexuality <sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202342_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202342-34"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-36"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-36">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1177148991">.mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}</style><span class="IPA-label IPA-label-small">Brazilian Portuguese:</span> <span class="IPA nowrap" lang="pt-Latn-BR-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/Portuguese" title="Help:IPA/Portuguese">&#91;kiˈtaɾɐ<span class="wrap"> </span>ʁɐˈvaʃi&#93;</a></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-44"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-44">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Other evidence of Santos performing as a drag queen in Brazil includes: <ul><li>A journalist, João Fragah, has said he interviewed Santos on video performing as Kitara Ravache.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>The Brazilian news program <i><a href="/wiki/Fant%C3%A1stico" title="Fantástico">Fantástico</a></i> published a video purportedly of Santos dancing in drag at Niterói's 2007 gay parade; <i>Fantástico</i> cited digital crimes expert Wanderson Castilho confirming that this person was Santos.<sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li> <li>A Wikipedia user called "Anthonydevolder" (one of Santos's aliases) wrote about himself on the site in 2011, giving Santos's birth date, describing a similar family background, stating that at 17, he had been a drag queen in a gay nightclub and had won several gay beauty pageants, and identifying three supposed television and movie acting credits.<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-HannahMontana_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-HannahMontana-43"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></li></ul> </span></li> <li id="cite_note-58"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-58">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">At the time Santos took the regional director position, Harbor City had been banned from doing business in Alabama by that state's Securities Commission, which alleged that the firm was "out to deceive Alabamians and profit off unsuspecting investors by using dazzling marketing tactics to sell unregistered bonds."<sup id="cite_ref-MJ_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MJ-57"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-64"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-64">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to <i>Mother Jones</i>, Santos' reported personal income increased from $55,000 in 2020 to between $3.5 million and $11.5 million in 2022 and 2023.<sup id="cite_ref-MJdevolder_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MJdevolder-63"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-65"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-65">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">A person or entity with an ownership interest in a limited liability company is called a member.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-71"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-71">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The House Ethics Committee noted that Santos's frequent claims of wealth stood in stark contrast to his own financial reality: "[He] was frequently in debt, had an abysmal credit score, and relied on an ever-growing wallet of high-interest credit cards to fund his luxury spending habits."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202340_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202340-70"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-123">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Scott_(politician)" title="Bobby Scott (politician)">Robert C. Scott</a> and <a href="/wiki/Nikema_Williams" title="Nikema Williams">Nikema Williams</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-154"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-154">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i><a href="/wiki/The_New_Republic" title="The New Republic">The New Republic</a></i> noted that the war would have had no effect on the genealogy searches and DNA tests Santos had previously said were pending.<sup id="cite_ref-TNR_ancestry_comment_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TNR_ancestry_comment-153"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-176"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-176">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The Stern School of Business</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-fn1-185"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-fn1_185-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-fn1_185-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Members of the U.S. House are not required to live within the boundaries of their respective districts, but are required to reside in the same state in which they hold office.<sup id="cite_ref-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History_90-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lying_About_College_and_Work_History-90"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-195"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-195">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The deadline is rarely enforced, often due to uncertainty about candidacies.<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFPiper2023" class="citation news cs1">Piper, Jessica (March 19, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.politico.com/news/2023/03/19/george-santos-financial-disclosures-00087715">"George Santos never filed a key financial disclosure. Enforcement has been lax for years"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Politico" title="Politico">Politico</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Politico&amp;rft.atitle=George+Santos+never+filed+a+key+financial+disclosure.+Enforcement+has+been+lax+for+years.&amp;rft.date=2023-03-19&amp;rft.aulast=Piper&amp;rft.aufirst=Jessica&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.politico.com%2Fnews%2F2023%2F03%2F19%2Fgeorge-santos-financial-disclosures-00087715&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-214"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-214">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The House Ethics Committee found that many of the reported expenses in the $190–200 range were overstated. It was unable to determine why the higher amounts were reported.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202328n90_213-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202328n90-213"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-252"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-252">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The witness's actions are consistent with those the <i>Times</i> has attributed to DeMauro.<sup id="cite_ref-Times_Forte_campaign_story_244-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Times_Forte_campaign_story-244"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202334_251-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202334-251"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-254"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-254">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Santos's lawyer submitted to the Ethics Committee a <a href="/wiki/Form_1099" title="Form 1099">1099 tax form</a> reporting RedStone paid Santos $176,000 in nonemployee compensation during 2022.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202336_253-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202336-253"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-259"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-259">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">In December 2021, <i><a href="/wiki/Talking_Points_Memo" title="Talking Points Memo">Talking Points Memo</a></i> founder <a href="/wiki/Josh_Marshall" title="Josh Marshall">Josh Marshall</a> took note of a Santos tweet (since deleted) about having to pay over $200 every week for three tankfuls of gas. Based on where Santos lived and worked, and assuming he bought the most expensive grade of fuel, drove a fuel-inefficient vehicle, and refilled only when near empty, Marshall calculated that if Santos was indeed spending that much on gas, he had to be driving over a thousand miles (1,600 km) a week. His commute to and from work (which Marshall estimated based on LinkBridge's location since the minimal information he could find on the Devolder Organization — the family business Santos claimed employed him at the time — did not give an address) and assumed possible weekend trips to <a href="/wiki/The_Hamptons" title="The Hamptons">the Hamptons</a> still, according to Marshall, left more than 700 miles unaccounted for. Marshall noted how poor this math was, given Santos's stated background in finance.<sup id="cite_ref-TPM_gas_costs_post_258-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TPM_gas_costs_post-258"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-263"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-263">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">According to the House Ethics Committee, the lawyer for Santos's campaign advised him to shut Rise down while he was seeking election, advice he disregarded.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202328_260-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202328-260"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup> Another witness the committee interviewed recalled having concerns about Santos's involvement with Rise while a candidate and even the entity's legality.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202335n145_262-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEInvestigative_Subcommittee202335n145-262"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-297"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-297">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Two weeks after <i>Politico</i> reported this allegation, the Brazilian newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Folha_de_S.Paulo" title="Folha de S.Paulo">Folha de S.Paulo</a></i> reported that Trelha was himself a fugitive from justice, believed to be hiding in France after having been charged by Brazilian prosecutors in 2022 with torture over a 2019 incident in which he is accused of beating his girlfriend's 2-year-old son severely enough to fracture the boy's skull and require hospitalization. Trelha is also reported to have misrepresented his past, claiming to have worked as a pilot when he in fact never finished the training course.<sup id="cite_ref-TPM_Trelha_story_295-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-TPM_Trelha_story-295"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>273<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Folha_Trelha_story_296-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Folha_Trelha_story-296"><span class="cite-bracket">&#91;</span>274<span class="cite-bracket">&#93;</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-317"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-317">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The House Ethics Committee's report, by contrast, cites former staffers and documentary evidence to show that Santos and Marks had a close personal and work relationship, to the point that the other staffers considered the campaign's finances a "black box" accessible only to the two of them; he was involved enough, his later protestations to the contrary, that he would have been aware of any mistakes she made at the time she made them. Some staffers did bring issues with Marks's competence to Santos's attention. He told them that he would discuss them with her personally, but appeared to do little, if anything, to address the staffers' concerns. He reportedly told some that Marks was "untouchable". 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Juiz de Direito, Dr.(a) Ricardo Alberto Pereira – Juiz Titular do Cartório da 2ª Vara Criminal da Comarca de Niterói, Estado do Rio de Janeiro, FAZ SABER que o Promotor de Justiça Titular deste juízo, denunciou o nacional George Anthony Devolder Santos -Nacionalidade Americana – Profissão: Professor – Estado Civil: Solteiro – Data de Nascimento: 22/07/1988 Idade: 25 – Filiação: Pai -Gercino Antonio dos Santos Junior Mãe – Fatima Alzira Caruso Horta Devolder [The Honorable Judge Ricardo Alberto Pereira, Judge of the 2nd Criminal Court of the City of Niterói, State of Rio de Janeiro, DOES NOTICE that the Prosecutor General of this court, denounced the national George Anthony Devolder Santos – American Nationality – Profession: Teacher – Marital Status: Single – Date of Birth: 22/07/1988 Age: 25 – Parentage: Father -Gercino Antonio dos Santos Junior Mother – Fatima Alzira Caruso Horta Devolder ]</q></cite><span 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href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202329,_31_27-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChiusano2023">Chiusano 2023</a>, p.&#160;29, 31.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-May_Be_Largely_Fiction-29"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-May_Be_Largely_Fiction_29-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a 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His Résumé May Be Largely Fiction"</a></span>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20221222202438/https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/19/nyregion/george-santos-ny-republicans.html">Archived</a> from the original on December 22, 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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George Santos denies ever having been a drag queen"</a>. <a href="/wiki/NBC_News" title="NBC News">NBC News</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230120233825/https://www.nbcnews.com/nbc-out/out-politics-and-policy/rep-george-santos-denies-ever-drag-queen-rcna66414">Archived</a> from the original on January 20, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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January 22, 2023. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230123215500/https://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2023/01/22/defensor-de-pautas-anti-lgbtqia-deputado-republicano-filho-de-brasileiros-ja-foi-drag-queen-no-brasil.ghtml">Archived</a> from the original on January 23, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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January 23, 2023. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230123230253/https://g1.globo.com/fantastico/noticia/2023/01/23/video-inedito-mostra-george-santos-de-drag-queen-durante-parada-gay-de-niteroi-em-2007.ghtml">Archived</a> from the original on January 23, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Res. 878.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=clerk.house.gov&amp;rft.atitle=Office+of+the+Third+Congressional+District+of+New+York%3B+118th+Congress%2C+1st+Session&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fclerk.house.gov%2Fmembers%2FNY03%2Fvacancy&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Vanity_Fair_post-special_piece-129"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Vanity_Fair_post-special_piece_129-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLevin2024" class="citation magazine cs1">Levin, Bess (February 14, 2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.vanityfair.com/news/george-santos-calls-ex-colleagues-fucking-idiots-in-group-chat-he-set-up-specially-to-curse-them-out">"George Santos Calls Ex-Colleagues 'Fucking Idiots' in Group Chat He Set Up Specially to Curse Them Out"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Vanity_Fair_(magazine)" title="Vanity Fair (magazine)">Vanity Fair</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 6,</span> 2023</span>. <q>Republican leaders in Congress have declined to answer questions about the congressman-elect.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=NY+attorney+general+to+review+issues+raised+about+Santos&amp;rft.date=2022-12-22&amp;rft.aulast=Cuza&amp;rft.aufirst=Bobby&amp;rft.au=Brosnan%2C+Erica&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ny1.com%2Fnyc%2Fall-boroughs%2Fpolitics%2F2022%2F12%2F22%2Fgeorge-santos-investigated-by-new-york-attorney-general-james&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-137"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-137">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://wabcradio.com/episode/exclusive-congressman-elect-breaks-his-silence/">"Exclusive: Congressman Elect Santos Breaks His Silence"</a>. <a href="/wiki/WABC_(AM)" title="WABC (AM)">WABC</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221227015701/https://wabcradio.com/episode/exclusive-congressman-elect-breaks-his-silence/">Archived</a> from the original on December 27, 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 27,</span> 2022</span>. <q>In interviews with WABC radio and the New York Post – the first times Santos has spoken publicly about the controversy – he acknowledged that he had fabricated some facts.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Rep.-elect+George+Santos+admits+to+lying+about+resume%2C+says+he%27s+%27not+a+criminal%27&amp;rft.date=2022-12-26&amp;rft.aulast=Blaine&amp;rft.aufirst=Kyle&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fedition.cnn.com%2F2022%2F12%2F26%2Fpolitics%2Fgeorge-santos-admits-embellishing-resume%2Findex.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Eidler-141"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Eidler_141-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Eidler_141-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEidler2022" class="citation news cs1">Eidler, Scott (December 26, 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/george-santos-congressman-elect-wabc-new-york-post-resume-fabrications-jyve7dyy">"George Santos admits resume fabrications, says he will take office"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Newsday" title="Newsday">Newsday</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20221227073805/https://www.newsday.com/long-island/nassau/george-santos-congressman-elect-wabc-new-york-post-resume-fabrications-jyve7dyy">Archived</a> from the original on December 27, 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Patch.com. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230515032419/https://patch.com/new-york/glencove/george-santos-posted-deeply-offensive-comment-hitler-jews">Archived</a> from the original on May 15, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">May 14,</span> 2023</span>. <q>In March 2011, Santos commented on a photo shared by a Facebook friend which shows someone making what appears to be a military salute with the caption "something like Hitler." In his comment, Santos writes [sic]: "hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh hiiiiiiiiiiiitlerrrrrrrrrrr (hight hitler) lolololololololololololol sombody kill her!! the jews and black mostly lolllolol!!! Dum" ~. Patch also verified through another former friend, Gregory Morey-Parker, that the original Facebook post under which Santos wrote the Hitler comment existed.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=George+Santos+Posted+%27Deeply+Offensive%27+Comment+About+Hitler%2C+Jews&amp;rft.pub=Patch.com&amp;rft.date=2023-01-26&amp;rft.au=Sweet%2C+Jacqueline&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpatch.com%2Fnew-york%2Fglencove%2Fgeorge-santos-posted-deeply-offensive-comment-hitler-jews&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-offensivejoke-148"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-offensivejoke_148-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPanellaGriffiths2023" class="citation web cs1">Panella, Chris; Griffiths, Brent D. (January 25, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-wrote-facebook-jokes-about-hitler-jewish-black-people-2023-1">"George Santos — who claimed he was Jewish — wrote a Facebook comment in 2011 joking about Hitler, 'the Jews' and Black people"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Business_Insider" title="Business Insider">Business Insider</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230126213435/https://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-wrote-facebook-jokes-about-hitler-jewish-black-people-2023-1">Archived</a> from the original on January 26, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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George Santos admits being a 'terrible liar' while doubling down on some of his most dubious claims"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/NBC_News" title="NBC News">NBC News</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230221185942/https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/rep-george-santos-admits-terrible-liar-doubling-dubious-claims-rcna71600">Archived</a> from the original on February 21, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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George Santos's mother wasn't in New York on 9/11"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Washington_Post" title="The Washington Post">The Washington Post</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230118202339/https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/18/santos-mother-sept-11/">Archived</a> from the original on January 18, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 23,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=CNN&amp;rft.atitle=Fact+check%3A+George+Santos+tells+new+lies+in+interview+about+his+old+lies&amp;rft.date=2023-02-21&amp;rft.aulast=Dale&amp;rft.aufirst=Daniel&amp;rft.au=Kaczynski%2C+Andrew&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnn.com%2F2023%2F02%2F21%2Fpolitics%2Ffact-check-george-santos-piers-morgan-lies%2Findex.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano202320-169"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202320_169-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano202320_169-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChiusano2023">Chiusano 2023</a>, p.&#160;20.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-People_Baruch_story-170"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-People_Baruch_story_170-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChamlee2023" class="citation news cs1">Chamlee, Virginia (January 13, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://people.com/politics/george-santos-resume-similarities-former-boss-pablo-oliveira/">"Rep. George Santos Appears to Have Ripped Off His Former Boss's Resume in Crafting His Backstory"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/People_(magazine)" title="People (magazine)">People</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230113170816/https://people.com/politics/george-santos-resume-similarities-former-boss-pablo-oliveira/">Archived</a> from the original on January 13, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 13,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=People&amp;rft.atitle=Rep.+George+Santos+Appears+to+Have+Ripped+Off+His+Former+Boss%27s+Resume+in+Crafting+His+Backstory&amp;rft.date=2023-01-13&amp;rft.aulast=Chamlee&amp;rft.aufirst=Virginia&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fpeople.com%2Fpolitics%2Fgeorge-santos-resume-similarities-former-boss-pablo-oliveira%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-171"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-171">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDormanHall2023" class="citation news cs1">Dorman, John L.; Hall, Madison (January 11, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-star-volleyball-player-lie-nassau-county-gop-cairo-2023-1">"George Santos lied about being a 'star' college volleyball player at the university he lied about attending, Nassau GOP chairman says"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Business_Insider" title="Business Insider">Business Insider</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230111175938/http://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-star-volleyball-player-lie-nassau-county-gop-cairo-2023-1">Archived</a> from the original on January 11, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 11,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Business+Insider&amp;rft.atitle=George+Santos+lied+about+being+a+%27star%27+college+volleyball+player+at+the+university+he+lied+about+attending%2C+Nassau+GOP+chairman+says&amp;rft.date=2023-01-11&amp;rft.aulast=Dorman&amp;rft.aufirst=John+L.&amp;rft.au=Hall%2C+Madison&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fgeorge-santos-star-volleyball-player-lie-nassau-county-gop-cairo-2023-1&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEChiusano2023128-172"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEChiusano2023128_172-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFChiusano2023">Chiusano 2023</a>, p.&#160;128.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-knee1-173"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-knee1_173-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-knee1_173-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFByrnes2023" class="citation news cs1">Byrnes, DJ (January 15, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thecomeback.com/politics/george-santos-baruch-college-volleyball-knees.html">"George Santos caught lying about volleyball injuries"</a>. <i>The Comeback</i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230115191229/https://thecomeback.com/politics/george-santos-baruch-college-volleyball-knees.html">Archived</a> from the original on January 15, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 16,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Comeback&amp;rft.atitle=George+Santos+caught+lying+about+volleyball+injuries&amp;rft.date=2023-01-15&amp;rft.aulast=Byrnes&amp;rft.aufirst=DJ&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthecomeback.com%2Fpolitics%2Fgeorge-santos-baruch-college-volleyball-knees.html&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-knee2-174"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-knee2_174-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-knee2_174-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5LELLS6k8">"In 2020 interview, Santos claimed to have two knee replacements"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Morning_Joe" title="Morning Joe">Morning Joe</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC">MSNBC</a>. January 16, 2023. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230210021245/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rx5LELLS6k8">Archived</a> from the original on February 10, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 10,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Morning+Joe&amp;rft.atitle=In+2020+interview%2C+Santos+claimed+to+have+two+knee+replacements&amp;rft.date=2023-01-16&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DRx5LELLS6k8&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Insider_student_debt_story-175"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Insider_student_debt_story_175-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSheffley2023" class="citation news cs1">Sheffley, Ayelet (January 17, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-claims-no-student-debt-from-nyu-never-attended-2023-1">"George Santos once bragged about having no student debt from a school he never actually attended: 'I hate looking at youth today and seeing them sitting on their behinds'<span class="cs1-kern-right"></span>"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Business_Insider" title="Business Insider">Business Insider</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230117154645/http://www.businessinsider.com/george-santos-claims-no-student-debt-from-nyu-never-attended-2023-1">Archived</a> from the original on January 17, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">January 17,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Business+Insider&amp;rft.atitle=George+Santos+once+bragged+about+having+no+student+debt+from+a+school+he+never+actually+attended%3A+%27I+hate+looking+at+youth+today+and+seeing+them+sitting+on+their+behinds%27&amp;rft.date=2023-01-17&amp;rft.aulast=Sheffley&amp;rft.aufirst=Ayelet&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.businessinsider.com%2Fgeorge-santos-claims-no-student-debt-from-nyu-never-attended-2023-1&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hill_Piers_Morgan_story-177"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Hill_Piers_Morgan_story_177-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSchnell2023" class="citation news cs1">Schnell, Mychael (February 20, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3867074-santos-says-he-didnt-think-people-would-find-out-about-lies-because-he-got-away-with-them-during-2020-campaign/">"Santos says he didn't think people would find out about lies because he 'got away with' them during 2020 campaign"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hill_(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)">The Hill</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230221000522/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3867074-santos-says-he-didnt-think-people-would-find-out-about-lies-because-he-got-away-with-them-during-2020-campaign/">Archived</a> from the original on February 21, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 21,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Hill&amp;rft.atitle=Santos+says+he+didn%27t+think+people+would+find+out+about+lies+because+he+%27got+away+with%27+them+during+2020+campaign&amp;rft.date=2023-02-20&amp;rft.aulast=Schnell&amp;rft.aufirst=Mychael&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fhouse%2F3867074-santos-says-he-didnt-think-people-would-find-out-about-lies-because-he-got-away-with-them-during-2020-campaign%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hill_blame-Nassau-GOP_article-178"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Hill_blame-Nassau-GOP_article_178-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShapero2023" class="citation news cs1">Shapero, Julia (February 10, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3853637-santos-blames-embellished-resume-on-local-gop-as-scrutiny-continues/">"Santos blames 'embellished resume' on local GOP as scrutiny continues"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hill_(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)">The Hill</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230211043612/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3853637-santos-blames-embellished-resume-on-local-gop-as-scrutiny-continues/">Archived</a> from the original on February 11, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 10,</span> 2023</span>. <q>I would have never gotten the nomination from the Nassau County GOP if I had not concluded college.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+Hill&amp;rft.atitle=Santos+blames+%27embellished+resume%27+on+local+GOP+as+scrutiny+continues&amp;rft.date=2023-02-10&amp;rft.aulast=Shapero&amp;rft.aufirst=Julia&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fthehill.com%2Fhomenews%2Fhouse%2F3853637-santos-blames-embellished-resume-on-local-gop-as-scrutiny-continues%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Marcia_Kramer_interview-179"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Marcia_Kramer_interview_179-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKramer2023" class="citation audio-visual cs1"><a href="/wiki/Marcia_Kramer" title="Marcia Kramer">Kramer, Marcia</a> (December 10, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/george-santos-interview-corruption-in-congress-the-point-with-marcia-kramer/"><i>Former Rep. George Santos says no shortage of corruption in Congress after his expulsion on 'The Point with Marcia Kramer'<span></span></i></a> (Television broadcast). <a href="/wiki/WCBS-TV" title="WCBS-TV">WCBS-TV</a>. Event occurs at 3:55–4:15. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231216024235/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/george-santos-interview-corruption-in-congress-the-point-with-marcia-kramer/">Archived</a> from the original on December 16, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">December 15,</span> 2023</span> &#8211; via <a href="/wiki/YouTube" title="YouTube">YouTube</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.btitle=Former+Rep.+George+Santos+says+no+shortage+of+corruption+in+Congress+after+his+expulsion+on+%27The+Point+with+Marcia+Kramer%27&amp;rft.pub=WCBS-TV&amp;rft.date=2023-12-10&amp;rft.aulast=Kramer&amp;rft.aufirst=Marcia&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fnewyork%2Fnews%2Fgeorge-santos-interview-corruption-in-congress-the-point-with-marcia-kramer%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Alias_use-180"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Alias_use_180-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPrieb2022" class="citation news cs1">Prieb, Natalie (December 29, 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3791780-santos-reportedly-used-anthony-zabrovsky-alias-on-charity-gofundme-page/">"Santos reportedly used 'Anthony Zabrovsky' alias on charity GoFundMe page"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Hill_(newspaper)" title="The Hill (newspaper)">The Hill</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20221229233350/https://thehill.com/homenews/house/3791780-santos-reportedly-used-anthony-zabrovsky-alias-on-charity-gofundme-page/">Archived</a> from the original on December 29, 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Interviewed by Bridget Read. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230125183457/https://www.curbed.com/2023/01/george-santos-roommate-nightmare.html">Archived</a> from the original on January 25, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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At Least, He Claims He Did"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Bloomberg_News" title="Bloomberg News">Bloomberg News</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230203234419/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-03/george-santos-produced-broadway-s-spider-man-musical-at-least-he-claims-he-did">Archived</a> from the original on February 3, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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It sure seems so"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_Reidout" class="mw-redirect" title="The Reidout">The Reidout</a></i>. <a href="/wiki/MSNBC" title="MSNBC">MSNBC</a>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230131172847/https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/george-santos-mugging-racism-rcna67487">Archived</a> from the original on January 31, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Then the Phone Rang"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231023002851/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/22/nyregion/george-santos-interview.html">Archived</a> from the original on October 23, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theleaderonline.com/single-post/santos-filings-now-claim-net-worth-of-11-million">the original</a> on November 3, 2022<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Oh Boy". <i><a href="/wiki/Slate_(website)" class="mw-redirect" title="Slate (website)">Slate</a></i>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=Slate&amp;rft.atitle=George+Santos+Just+Had+to+Admit+How+Much+Money+He+Owes+People.+Oh+Boy.&amp;rft.date=2024-04-18&amp;rft.aulast=Shultz&amp;rft.aufirst=Alex&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-August_2024_Newsday_story-204"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-August_2024_Newsday_story_204-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGormley2024" class="citation news cs1">Gormley, Michael (August 27, 2024). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/george-santos-campaign-fund-fec-lap8599u">"George Santos' campaign fund has $562 in cash, nearly $800,000 in debt, records show"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Newsday" title="Newsday">Newsday</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240827120437/https://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/george-santos-campaign-fund-fec-lap8599u">Archived</a> from the original on August 27, 2024<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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George Santos' case say they have given his defense over 80K pages of material"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/Associated_Press" title="Associated Press">Associated Press</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230630050728/https://apnews.com/article/george-santos-indictment-b8bd9b6c9cdf85126271138ded11bca6">Archived</a> from the original on June 30, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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George Santos denies reports he's working on a plea deal with prosecutors"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230915142859/https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/rep-george-santos-denies-reports-hes-working-on-a-plea-deal-with-prosecutors/">Archived</a> from the original on September 15, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Devolder Santos: <i>A false resume Santos used in 2019</i>"</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span>. <i><a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230111205704/https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/resume-of-george-santos/95321af46e1dc223/full.pdf">Archived</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> from the original on January 11, 2023.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&amp;rft.atitle=George+A.+Devolder+Santos%3A+A+false+resume+Santos+used+in+2019&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fint.nyt.com%2Fdata%2Fdocumenttools%2Fresume-of-george-santos%2F95321af46e1dc223%2Ffull.pdf&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.cbsnews.com/video/campaign-of-deceit-the-election-of-george-santos-cbs-reports/">"Campaign of Deceit: The Election of George Santos | CBS Reports"</a>. <a href="/wiki/CBS_News" title="CBS News">CBS News</a>. February 10, 2023<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">February 11,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.atitle=Campaign+of+Deceit%3A+The+Election+of+George+Santos+%7C+CBS+Reports&amp;rft.date=2023-02-10&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cbsnews.com%2Fvideo%2Fcampaign-of-deceit-the-election-of-george-santos-cbs-reports%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLansHartmann2023" class="citation web cs1">Lans, Chanteé; Hartmann, Emily (June 28, 2023). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://abc7ny.com/george-santos-news-republican-congressman-father/13433482/">"Who is George Santos? The Man, the Myths, the Lessons of the Republican Congressman from New York"</a>. <i>ABC7 New York</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">July 18,</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=unknown&amp;rft.jtitle=ABC7+New+York&amp;rft.atitle=Who+is+George+Santos%3F+The+Man%2C+the+Myths%2C+the+Lessons+of+the+Republican+Congressman+from+New+York&amp;rft.date=2023-06-28&amp;rft.aulast=Lans&amp;rft.aufirst=Chante%C3%A9&amp;rft.au=Hartmann%2C+Emily&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fabc7ny.com%2Fgeorge-santos-news-republican-congressman-father%2F13433482%2F&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Santos" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output 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