New York Congressman-Elect Admits Lying About College And Work History – During his successful campaign for a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, a Republican congressman-elect from New York admitted to have lied about his job history and college education. George Santos, who was elected in November to represent parts of northern Long Island and north-eastern Queens, said to the New York Post, “My sins here are embellishing my résumé. I’m sorry.”
He added: “I campaigned talking about the people’s concerns, not my résumé. I intend to deliver on the promises I made during the campaign.” The New York Times raised questions last week about the life story that Santos, 34, had presented during his campaign. The Queens resident had said he obtained a degree from Baruch College in New York, but the school said that could not be confirmed.
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Monday, Santos acknowledged, “I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my résumé.” He added: “I own up to that. We do stupid things in life.” Santos had also said he had worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, but neither company could find any records verifying that. Santos told the Post he had “never worked directly” for either financial firm, saying he had used a “poor choice of words.”
He told the Post that the investment company where he was vice president, Link Bridge, did business with both. Another news outlet, the Jewish American site The Forward, had questioned a claim on Santos’s campaign website that his grandparents “fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and again fled persecution during WWII.”
“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos told the Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish’.” Santos first ran for Congress in 2020 and lost. He ran again in 2022 and won in the district that includes some Long Island suburbs and a small part of Queens.
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