George Santos (R-NY) and his imaginative (but dishonest) résumé

[Kendra]

https:// twitter.com/owlknight0/status/1613199392877445120

Yeahbut, Springtime For Santos has the right numberof syllables, Springtome For Trump doesnt

SNL are you listening?

This could be epic!

[Kendra]

Two New York US House Democrats are introducing the “Stopping Another Non Truthful Office Seeker” – or “SANTOS” – Act

Requiring candidates for Congress file additional biographical information with the Federal Election Commission

More pressure for Rep George Santos from his fellow US House Republicans

Rep Marc Molinaro (R-NY) tells us he’s not sure how Santos can serve

Rep Mike Lawler (R-NY) says Santos seriously needs to consider the words of the local GOP party chair who called for resignation

Rep George Santos moments ago: “If 142 people ask for me to resign, I'll resign.”

Not sure about that number

There are 222 House Republicans

There are 434 sworn Members of the US House

[Kendra]

Good point.

They’ve been campaigning on Hunter Biden for years

[p0rtia]

I assume it's only a matter of time before voters in Santos's district get petitions going, demanding that he resign.

[RTH10260]

George Santos Took Donation From Migrant-Smuggler
Serial liar and border-hardliner George Santos accepted support from an Italian caught piloting a yacht full of Chinese migrants and from his prominent restaurant-owning family.

William Bredderman Researcher
Updated Jan. 11, 2023 5:16AM ET Published Jan. 11, 2023 4:51AM ET

Embattled Rep. George Santos took an almost certainly illegal donation from an Italian national and confessed smuggler of undocumented immigrants—who also happens to be the blood relative of some of his closest local supporters and campaign vendors.

The gift from Rocco Oppedisano—expelled from the U.S. in January 2019, and who was subsequently intercepted piloting a yacht packed with unauthorized migrants and $200,000 in cash toward Florida—was just one facet of the support the freshman Republican and immigration hardliner received from the Queens-based clan that controls upscale eatery Il Bacco. Santos has been unabashed about his affection for the restaurant and his affinity for its owners, Rocco Oppedisano’s brother Joseph and niece Tina.

As a truth-challenged candidate, Santos appointed the father-daughter pair, plus her fiancé, to his “Small Businesses for Santos Coalition,” and made Tina its chair. The campaign, already known for its suspect money maneuvers, also spent $25,443.64 at Il Bacco since the Republican launched his first run for his Long Island-Queens seat in 2020, according to federal campaign finance records. The campaign further reported owing Il Bacco $18,773.54 for its election night party in November.

Especially striking to legal experts is that more than half a dozen of those expenses, marked “Food and Beverage” in the filing, came in at exactly $199.99—one penny short of the threshold that would have required the campaign to retain receipts of the transaction.

"You can’t structure transfers of money in a way to intentionally get around the law,” said Jordan Libowitz, communications director for the good government group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. “If someone was trying to structure and kind of lazy about it… this is kind of what it would look like.”

But even more disturbing to him was the Sept. 22, 2022, gift from Rocco Oppedisano, who court and property records show was stripped of his permanent resident status following a firearms and drug bust at homes belonging to Joseph Oppedisano in 2009.

“There are some things on which there is no gray area on with the FEC, and one of them is donations from foreign nationals,” said Libowitz, noting such a gift is flatly forbidden.




https://www.thedailybeast.com/george-sa ... oppedisano

[noblepa]

Yeahbut, Springtime For Santos has the right numberof syllables, Springtome For Trump doesnt

"Springtime for Donald Trump" works. In the original song "Springtime for Hitler", the name Hit-ler is sung on two quarter notes. Change it to two eighth notes (Don-ald) and a quarter note for Trump, and it rolls nicely off the tongue. Now that I think about it, I think it works better than the original. The very next line of the original, "and Ger-man-y" is sung with two eighth notes and one quarter note.

[bob]

"Springtime for Dooon-hald" works.

[noblepa]

Rep George Santos moments ago: “If 142 people ask for me to resign, I'll resign.”

Not sure about that number

There are 222 House Republicans

There are 434 sworn Members of the US House

Dear Rep. Santos. Please resign.

Only 141 to go.

[Dr. Ken]

[Kendra]

Santos slipping on the newspaper someone slipped under his office door is prime VEEP

[Suranis]

Some people in the replies on that are saying his real name is Anthony Devolder. No idea where that came from or if its just bullshit, but noticed it.

[raison de arizona]

Some people in the replies on that are saying his real name is Anthony Devolder. No idea where that came from or if its just bullshit, but noticed it.

I've seen that as an alias he has used, not his real name. But I dunno. Another alias I've seen listed is Anthony Zabrovsky.

ETA: I see he used GEORGE ANTHONY DEVOLDER-SANTOS on his FEC form.

[Volkonski]

Devolder is his mother's name.

Santos was born on July 22, 1988,[6] to Fatima Aziza Caruso Horta Devolder and Gercino Antonio dos Santos Jr., both of whom were born in Brazil.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Santos

[raison de arizona]

It's convention in Brazil to include your mother's and father's surnames in your name, in that order. Gave me fits at a previous job parsing names from there.

[Gregg]

Rep George Santos moments ago: “If 142 people ask for me to resign, I'll resign.”

Not sure about that number

There are 222 House Republicans

There are 434 sworn Members of the US House

Dear Rep. Santos. Please resign.

Only 141 to go.

That's a mis-quote or he said it wrong, one or the other.

He clarified that "all 142,000 people who voted for me". I'm pretty sure that's covered too.

Rep. George Santos says he will resign if 142,000 people ask him to

"If 142 people ask for me to resign, I'll resign," Santos told reporters outside his office on Capitol Hill.

Santos later clarified that he was in fact referring to the more than 142,000 people who voted to elect him in New York's Third Congressional District in November.

[Volkonski]

Kyle Griffin :verified:
@kylegriffin1@twtr.plus
Four New York House Republicans are now calling on George Santos to resign:

Rep. Anthony D'Esposito
Rep. Nick Langworthy
Rep. Nick LaLota
Rep. Brandon Williams

[roadscholar]

"Springtime for Dooon-hald" works.

"Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Trump?"

[Kendra]

"I am here to remind you George, that we will make every single day in this district for you a living nightmare until you find us " - Rally outside alleged o
Queens office of George Santos, demanding he resigns #whereisgeorge

[p0rtia]

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/20 ... ntos-lies/

January 12, 2023
In Brazilian Media, Even More Reports of George Santos’ Lies
He even used different names on dating apps. - Isabela Dias, Reporter


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Rep. George Santos speaks with reporters as he departs Capitol Hill.Francis Chung/Politico/AP
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In 2008, Bruno Simões was working as a clerk at a store called The Salt in Niterói, a city that neighbors Rio de Janeiro. One day, a 20-year-old George Santos walked in. Simões watched as Santos picked out several pieces of clothing and shoes. His total added up to $1,313—”a lot of money at the time,” Simões told me. Enough that Santos used two checks to pay for his purchase.

The clerk grew suspicious. Later, when Simões tried to verify the address listed on the checks, it didn’t match the name. A couple of days after, another man came to the store to exchange a gift from his boyfriend, a pair of sneakers Simões recognized as the ones Santos bought. That’s when Simões realized he had been scammed. “It was a gut feeling,” Simões said. “He was too nice to be true”; he was “friendly and smiling,” Simões said of Santos, “like every embezzler.” 

The son of Brazilian immigrants, Santos is now famous for his lies. Last November, he was elected as a Republican representative for New York. But, soon after, the New York Times published an exposé revealing the newcomer essentially manufactured his resumé and biography, lying about attending an elite private school, working on Wall Street, and having lost employees at Orlando’s Pulse nightclub shooting. He is also not Jewish, only “Jew-ish.” Santos is facing calls to resign from voters and from Long Island Republicans but has so far refused to do so. 


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In 2008, Bruno Simões was working as a clerk at a store called The Salt in Niterói, a city that neighbors Rio de Janeiro. One day, a 20-year-old George Santos walked in. Simões watched as Santos picked out several pieces of clothing and shoes. His total added up to $1,313—”a lot of money at the time,” Simões told me. Enough that Santos used two checks to pay for his purchase.

The clerk grew suspicious. Later, when Simões tried to verify the address listed on the checks, it didn’t match the name. A couple of days after, another man came to the store to exchange a gift from his boyfriend, a pair of sneakers Simões recognized as the ones Santos bought. That’s when Simões realized he had been scammed. “It was a gut feeling,” Simões said. “He was too nice to be true”; he was “friendly and smiling,” Simões said of Santos, “like every embezzler.” 
...
Simões hadn’t given Santos another thought until a few weeks ago, when a Brazilian reporter reached out to get a reaction after the publication of a New York Times exposé revealed the Queens-born GOP newcomer had embellished or fabricated most of his curriculum and biography. “It seemed to me like a joke that he would be elected congressman,” Simões said, adding he was less surprised about the fact that Santos was a Republican candidate. “He was visibly deceitful.”
“He was visibly deceitful.”

As it turns out, Santos that day with Simões had used a checkbook belonging to a former patient of his mother, Fátima Alzira Caruso Horta Devolder, who worked as a caregiver. The elderly man, Délio da Camara da Costa Alemão, was already deceased at the time. Simões was then able to find a profile of Santos on the now-defunct social network Orkut and after exchanging messages with the congressman, Santos acknowledged having “messed up” and vowed to pay the money back. When that never happened, Simões went to the police station. In a statement given to the police in 2010, Santos’ mother said her son had used four checks that had been stolen from her purse. Santos confessed to forging the signatures on the two checks used at Simões’ store, according to documents obtained by CNN. 

...

The Brazilian TV show reported that Santos splurged while living in Niterói in 2008 with his mother, who passed away in 2016, and his sister. In an interview, a woman called Adriana Damasceno claimed to have met Santos at a Bingo parlor. Damasceno said they became friends and that during a trip to the United States in 2011, he went “shopping under her name, withdrew all the money she had in the bank, and even pawned jewelry.” When asked about whether she had reported anything to authorities, Damasceno said Santos bragged about having dual citizenship—American and Brazilian—and that she felt powerless to come forward.

And on and on at the link.

[RTH10260]

The qualities for Republican House Representative

or as we like to say around this place: Only The Best!

The young man can be promoter for Melanias Be Best organization

[Dr. Ken]

[RTH10260]

Will he become the guy with the shortest tenure in the House, or has that already been taken in the Guinness Books of Records?

[AndyinPA]

Whill he become the guy with the shortest tenure in the House, or has that already been taken in the Gusiness Books of Records?

It appears to be a woman who was appointed and served one day. And it was 100 years ago. There are about a dozen who served less than 100 days, but that goes back even further.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_m ... of_service

[Gregg]

Will he become the guy with the shortest tenure in the House, or has that already been taken in the Gusiness Books of Records?

He'll be the first who has his term measured in Scaramuccis. The old ones were before the "Trump Bad Appointment Standard" was adopted.

[RTH10260]

Rep. George Santos Appears to Have Ripped Off His Former Boss's Resume in Crafting His Backstory

Virginia Chamlee
Fri, January 13, 2023 at 6:00 PM GMT+1


Days after a Republican official told reporters that embattled Rep. George Santos once lied about being a college volleyball "star," a new report suggests that some of the "key elements" of Santos' story bear a striking resemblance to the resume of his former boss, Pablo Oliveira.

Inside Edition reports that Oliveira, who was Santos' boss at financial services company LinkBridge Investors, graduated from Baruch University, where he played on the school's winning volleyball team and was a two-time All-American volleyball player. A LinkedIn profile appears to back up Oliveira's resume, though little is known about LinkBridge itself.

While it's unclear whether Santos, 34, intentionally appropriated Oliveira's background, the Republican lawmaker has told a similar story — albeit one that wasn't true.

Santos has said he graduated from Baruch College in 2010, writing in a resume given to the the Nassau County Republican Committee in 2020 that he graduated summa cum laude with a 3.89 GPA.

On a biography on the National Republican Congressional Committee's website, he also cited a stint at New York University — a similar claim made on the 2020 resume, where he said he obtained an M.B.A. at the school after scoring 710 on the GMAT.




https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rep ... 55132.html

(original: People)