{"id":1789194,"date":"2022-12-28T18:48:47","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T23:48:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1789194"},"modified":"2022-12-29T08:57:55","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T13:57:55","slug":"prosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-republican-george-santos-for-allegedly-lying-about-his-background","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/prosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-republican-george-santos-for-allegedly-lying-about-his-background\/","title":{"rendered":"Prosecutors Open Criminal Investigation into Republican George Santos, For Supposedly Lying About His Past"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fprosecutors-open-criminal-investigation-into-republican-george-santos-for-allegedly-lying-about-his-background%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=1789194&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>Local prosecutors launched a criminal investigation against U.S. Rep. George Santos, R-NY, after he was charged with fabricating multiple claims about his history and later admitted to it.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"2\">Santos speaks with the New York Post Monday. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-rep-elect-who-made-false-statements-about-career-personal-life-admits-it\">admitted<\/a> Santos admitted that he falsified the claim that his job was with Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. He also said that he did NOT graduate from college. Santos also admitted to embellishing details about his personal life, religion, and sexuality. These controversies, however, would not distract from his duties, he stated.<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">\u201cI am not a criminal,\u201d Santos claimed. \u201cThis will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p data-reader-unique-id=\"6\">Long Island&#8217;s Prosecutors announced Wednesday that they have opened an investigation into Santos after the scandal was first reported by The New York Times last Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe numerous fabrications and inconsistencies associated with Congressman-Elect Santos are nothing short of stunning,\u201d said Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe residents of Nassau County and other parts of the third district must have an honest and accountable representative in Congress,\u201d She continued. \u201cNo one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for the Nassau County District Attorney\u2019s office told the Associated Press that they were \u201clooking into the matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Letitia James, New York Attorney General (D) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/nbc-out\/out-politics-and-policy\/ny-attorney-generals-office-looking-allegations-george-santos-rcna62957\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">said<\/a> last week that her office was looking into Santos\u2019 claims.<\/p>\n<p>Santos is also facing heat from inside the Republican Party for his allegedly false statements, with some saying that a Republican-controlled House of Representatives should investigate Santos if he is sworn into office.<\/p>\n<p>Santos&#8217; claimed Jewish heritage is another question mark. The Forward <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/news\/529130\/george-santos-jewish-lie-genealogy-records\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-reader-unique-id=\"25\">reported<\/a> On Wednesday, the congressman was caught lying when he said his grandparents fled anti-Jewish persecution in World War II. Instead, a genealogical search showed his mother\u2019s parents were born in Brazil instead of Ukraine or Belgium, as his campaign website asserted, according to The Forward.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) responded to Santos\u2019 claims in a statement saying that he was no longer welcome at their events.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very disappointed in Congressman-elect Santos,\u201d RJC \u201cHe deceived us and misrepresented his heritage. In public comments and to us personally he previously claimed to be Jewish. He has begun his tenure in Congress on a very wrong note. He will not be welcome at any future RJC event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RJC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RJC<\/a> Statement on Congressman-Elect George Santos <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cPc8O56XEl\">pic.twitter.com\/cPc8O56XEl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RJC (@RJC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RJC\/status\/1607767937234112518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RJC?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@RJC<\/a> statement on Congressman-Elect George Santos <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/cPc8O56XEl\">pic.twitter.com\/cPc8O56XEl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; RJC (@RJC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RJC\/status\/1607767937234112518?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local prosecutors have opened a criminal investigation into U.S. Rep-elect George Santos (R-NY) after he was accused of, and subsequently admitted to, fabricating numerous claims about his background. In an interview with the New York Post Monday, Santos admitted that he fibbed about the claim that he worked for financial titans Goldman Sachs and Citigroup; &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1890757,"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":"Prosecutors Open Criminal Investigation into Republican George Santos, For Supposedly Lying About His Past","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[3977,6202,5811,3976,6943,5169,3911,12040,12278,6195],"class_list":["post-1789194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-criminal","tag-daily","tag-george","tag-investigation","tag-lying","tag-prosecutors","tag-republican","tag-santos","tag-supposedly","tag-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Prosecutors Open Criminal Investigation into Republican George Santos, For Supposedly Lying About His Past","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789194","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1789194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1789194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1789194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1789194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1789194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}