{"id":1783257,"date":"2022-12-21T18:33:17","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T23:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783257"},"modified":"2022-12-21T18:33:21","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T23:33:21","slug":"gop-congressman-elect-getting-heat-over-resume-fraud-allegations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-congressman-elect-getting-heat-over-resume-fraud-allegations\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Congressman-Elect Getting Heat Over R\u00e9sum\u00e9 Fraud Allegations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgop-congressman-elect-getting-heat-over-resume-fraud-allegations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1783257&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>George Santos, a Republican who was just elected to Congress to represent\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/new-york\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New York<\/a>, is battling allegations that he misrepresented himself on the campaign trail.<\/p>\n<p>Santos\u2019 r\u00e9sum\u00e9 contains claims about his education and employment history that are either unsupported by evidence or contradicted by it, according to a Monday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2022\/12\/19\/nyregion\/george-santos-ny-republicans.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a> from\u00a0The New York Times and corroborating reports from other outlets.<\/p>\n<p>Santos is congressman-elect for\u00a0New York\u2019s third Congressional District, which covers the stretch of northern Long Island closest to New York City. He is slated to be sworn in on January 3 when the new Congress convenes.<\/p>\n<p>Santos claimed he earned degrees in finance and economics at\u00a0Baruch College and New York University. However, NYU and Baruch both confirmed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/20\/politics\/nassau-county-republicans-george-santos\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to CNN<\/a> and the Times that they could find no records of Santos attending either school.<\/p>\n<p>Santos also claimed in his campaign biography that he has worked at the Wall Street firms\u00a0Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. Both companies told CNN and the Times that they have\u00a0no record of his ever working there.<\/p>\n<p>In yet another questionable claim, Santos also said he founded and ran a charity called \u201cFriends of Pets United,\u201d but there <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/20\/politics\/nassau-county-republicans-george-santos\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">appears<\/a> to be no record of such an organization in the IRS database.<\/p>\n<p>The Times also discovered alleged unresolved criminal charges against Santos for check fraud in Brazil. Santos reportedly did not respond to an official court summons. Santos\u00a0is the son of Brazilian immigrants.<\/p>\n<p>Santos also\u00a0omitted important information about his personal financial disclosures, the Times found. He reported a salary of $750,000 and\u00a0over $1 million in dividends in his 2022 financial disclosure at the Devolder Organization in Florida in 2022 and 2021. However, he failed to report any of the clients he served while there. Furthermore, the Devolder Organization failed\u00a0to file the required annual reports and so <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/20\/politics\/nassau-county-republicans-george-santos\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">was made<\/a> temporarily \u201cinactive\u201d by the state of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Santos\u2019 attorney, Joseph Murray, hit back at the allegations in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Santos4Congress\/status\/1604960538148360192\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a> on Monday, calling the allegations \u201cdefamatory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter four\u00a0years in the public eye, and on the verge of being sworn in as a member of the\u00a0Republican led 118th Congress, the New York Times launches this shotgun blast\u00a0of attacks,\u201d Murray wrote in the statement, which was posted to social media. \u201cIt is no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies at the\u00a0New York Times who are attempting to smear his good name with these\u00a0defamatory allegations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The chairman of the local Republican committee weighed in on Tuesday, saying Santos should have an opportunity to defend himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile issues that have been raised in a December 19th New York Times article are serious, I believe that George Santos deserves an opportunity to address the claims detailed in the article, which have been repeated by other news sources,\u201d Joseph Cairo Jr., the Nassau County Republican Committee chairman, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2022\/12\/20\/politics\/nassau-county-republicans-george-santos\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEvery person deserves an opportunity to \u2018clear\u2019 his\/her name in the face of accusations. I am committed to this principle, and I look forward to the Congressman-Elect\u2019s responses to the news reports,\u201d Cairo said.<\/p>\n<p data-uri=\"archive.cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/paragraph_4254A2A0-B7BF-3555-9168-3162A9EFF3A2@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-analytics-observe=\"off\">Democrats have called for an investigation into Santos\u2019 questionable biographical claims.<\/p>\n<p>Santos ran as an openly gay Republican whose platform included\u00a0energy independence, lowering inflation, funding law enforcement, and a flat tax rate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Santos, a Republican who was just elected to Congress to represent\u00a0New York, is battling allegations that he misrepresented himself on the campaign trail. Santos\u2019 r\u00e9sum\u00e9 contains claims about his education and employment history that are either unsupported by evidence or contradicted by it, according to a Monday report from\u00a0The New York Times and corroborating &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":1783260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[6962,5609,7301,6202,6909,4246,6203,4060,3972,3824,6195],"class_list":["post-1783257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-the","tag-allegations","tag-congressman-elect","tag-daily","tag-fraud","tag-getting","tag-gop","tag-heat","tag-over","tag-resume","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1783257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1783260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}