A former U.S. attorney said Santos' biographical lies were not only used to convince voters to elect him to Congress but to attract donors.
Santos, who was elected tolast month, has since admitted that he never worked for Citigroup or Goldman Sachs, as he had previously suggested, and that he never graduated from college, despite claiming he has degrees from Baruch College and New York University.
Representative-elect George Santos speaks at the Republican Jewish Coalition annual leadership meeting on November 19, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nevada. A binder at the Southern District of New York office on April 27, 2022, in New York City. The controversy surrounding Santos is continuing to snowball as new admissions have emerged from the New York Republican himself that he did lie about parts of his resume during his campaign.
But the congressman-elect maintained that, despite those revelations,"I am not a criminal. Not here, not abroad, in any jurisdiction in the world have I ever committed any crimes."
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