More Lies from George Santos.
This clown is scum.
Pure scum.
Santos has said that he grew up in a basement apartment in Jackson Heights, in the Queens borough of New York City. Until Wednesday, Santos' campaign biography said that his mother, Fatima Devolder, worked her way up to become "the first female executive at a major financial institution." He has also said that she was in the south tower of the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that she died "a few years later."
In fact, Devolder died in 2016, and a Brazilian community newspaper at the time described her as a cook. Santos' friends and former roommates recalled her as a hardworking, friendly woman who spoke only Portuguese and made her living cleaning homes and selling food. None of those interviewed by the Times could recall any instance of her working in finance, and several chalked the story up to Santos' tendency for mythmaking.
His apparent fabrications about his own life begin with his claims about his high school. He said he attended Horace Mann School, a prestigious private institution in the Bronx borough of New York City, and said he dropped out in 2006 before graduating and earning an equivalency diploma. A spokesperson for Horace Mann said that the school had no record of his attending at all.
By 2008, court records show, Santos and his mother were living in Brazil, just outside Rio de Janeiro in the city of Niteri. Just a month before his 20th birthday, Santos entered a small clothing store and spent nearly $700 in 2008 using a stolen checkbook and a false name, court records show.
As His Life of Fantasy Comes Into Focus, George Santos Goes to Washington (yahoo.com)
This clown is scum.
Pure scum.
Santos has said that he grew up in a basement apartment in Jackson Heights, in the Queens borough of New York City. Until Wednesday, Santos' campaign biography said that his mother, Fatima Devolder, worked her way up to become "the first female executive at a major financial institution." He has also said that she was in the south tower of the World Trade Center during the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and that she died "a few years later."
In fact, Devolder died in 2016, and a Brazilian community newspaper at the time described her as a cook. Santos' friends and former roommates recalled her as a hardworking, friendly woman who spoke only Portuguese and made her living cleaning homes and selling food. None of those interviewed by the Times could recall any instance of her working in finance, and several chalked the story up to Santos' tendency for mythmaking.
His apparent fabrications about his own life begin with his claims about his high school. He said he attended Horace Mann School, a prestigious private institution in the Bronx borough of New York City, and said he dropped out in 2006 before graduating and earning an equivalency diploma. A spokesperson for Horace Mann said that the school had no record of his attending at all.
By 2008, court records show, Santos and his mother were living in Brazil, just outside Rio de Janeiro in the city of Niteri. Just a month before his 20th birthday, Santos entered a small clothing store and spent nearly $700 in 2008 using a stolen checkbook and a false name, court records show.
As His Life of Fantasy Comes Into Focus, George Santos Goes to Washington (yahoo.com)
"Cults don't end well. They really don't."
