OMG this guy!

He just can't STOP lying.

Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) posted a press release saying he was sworn in as a member of the House of Representatives by the speaker of the House. The only problem is, there currently is no speaker of the House and thus no one was sworn in on Tuesday.

Santos's release, which has since been deleted, on the House website, additionally read, "Representative George Santos was added to the rolls of the House upon executing the oath of office."

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Despite admitting to lying about much of his biography, Santos has repeatedly said he won't step down. But as he waits to actually be sworn into Congress once a speaker is chosen, Santos has to deal with another issue: being the target of a fraud investigation by authorities in Brazil.

  Washington Examiner

Republican Rep.-elect George Santos admitted to stealing a man’s checkbook that was in his mother’s possession to purchase clothing and shoes in 2008, according to documents obtained by CNN.

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Santos used stolen checks to make purchases at a shop in Niterói, a city outside of Rio de Janeiro on June 17, 2008, according to court documents. When making the purchase, he used an ID card with the checkbook owner’s name and a picture of himself, according to police documents.

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Santos confessed to forging the man’s signature on two checks to purchase clothes and shoes costing approximately $1,313.63 on the date of the forgery, and confirmed it was his signature on the forged checks.

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Two days after Santos made the purchases, a man named Thiago came into the same store with the shoes Santos had purchased and tried to return them for a different size. He said a friend gave him the shoes and was unaware of any illicit activity.

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The clerk had to pay the amount of the fraudulent purchase in installments to the store.

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Santos’ mother told the police in November 2010 that the checks were stolen from a checkbook she had in her purse belonging to Delio da Camara da Costa Alemao, who died a year prior to her speaking with police, and that her son had used four checks. Santos’ mother was Costa Alemao’s nurse prior to his death.

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Soon after the sale, they were able to find the bank account’s owner and talk to him on the phone, the manager said. He said he had closed the account in 2006 after losing the checkbook.

  CNN

I don't think he "lost" the checkbook. And maybe they should check into his death.

In June 2011, investigators filed a request with the Civil Police to take immediate judicial measures against Santos. In September, a judge summoned him to respond to the complaint through an attorney. Neither Santos nor an attorney ever responded. Three months later, authorities tried to deliver a summons for Santos at the prior home of his mother but he was not able to be located and she no longer lived there.

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A judge eventually suspended the statute of limitations in order for the case to be reopened later if Santos was found, the documents show.

As recently as October 2020, a document from the judiciary said they still had never been able to locate Santos to prosecute him for the crime.

He'd gone to America and become a Republican icon!

In an interview with the New York Post last week, Santos denied that he had been charged with any crime in Brazil, saying: “I am not a criminal here – not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world. Absolutely not. That didn’t happen.”

An easy out for the Republicans in the House could be to let him be extradited back to Brazil. Of course, not until McCarthy gets the Speaker's gavel - he needs that vote! (He still hasn't got enough votes.)

Last month, the New York Times published a report suggesting that Santos lied to voters about his college graduation, his criminal and employment history, his family-owned business, his animal rescue charity and his relationship with four victims of the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando, Fla. The Forward, a New York City-based Jewish publication, subsequently published a report suggesting he had misled voters about having Jewish ancestry.

In an interview with the New York Post, Santos admitted he “embellished” much of his biography. But he also tried to defend himself. (“I never claimed to be Jewish,” he told the Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”)

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On Monday, the Times reported that Brazilian prosecutors were reopening a 2008 case against him for alleged fraud around a stolen checkbook. The matter had been suspended because Rio de Janeiro authorities had been unable to locate him, but a spokesperson said they would be formally requesting that the U.S. Justice Department notify him of the charge. Santos has denied the charge, telling the Post last week, “I am not a criminal here — not here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction in the world.”

The other investigations into Santos are likely to focus on his campaign finances. When he ran for a House seat in 2020, he listed an income of $55,000 from LinkBridge Investors and no major assets. In 2022, he listed an income of $750,000 from the Devolder Organization and millions in assets.

Santos told the outlet Semafor that he made his money doing “deal building” and “specialty consulting” for “high net worth individuals,” but didn’t provide the names of any clients. In an interview with City and State New York, he said he had opened his own firm and “it just worked, because I had the relationships, and I started making a lot of money. And I fundamentally started building wealth.”

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One place where he did actually work recently, Harbor City Capital, was accused by the Securities and Exchange Commission of operating a Ponzi scheme.

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He has also attracted scrutiny for receiving tens of thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from a Russian businessman with Kremlin ties, while criticizing President Biden’s support for Ukraine in defending itself against Russia’s invasion.

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The New York Times had reported that a judge ordered him to pay more than $12,000 to [a prior] landlord for several months of unpaid rent and that Santos had written a check that bounced. The Times also reported that Santos owes $5,000 to a former roommate.

  Yahoo

The perfect Trumpian politician.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE:

You weren't duped so much as you weren't curious or diligent.

UPDATE :1/11