More false claims from George Santos about his work, education and family history emerge - CNN

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Rep.-elect George Santos made further mendacious claims implicit the years astir his household history, enactment past and acquisition successful run appearances implicit the years, a reappraisal of statements made successful 2 of his campaigns for Congress found.

CNN’s KFile uncovered much falsehoods from Santos, including claims helium was forced to permission a New York City backstage schoolhouse erstwhile his family’s existent property assets took a downturn and stating helium represented Goldman Sachs astatine a apical fiscal league wherever helium berated the institution for investing successful renewables.

CNN besides reviewed much instances of Santos providing further mendacious past of his family’s background. In 1 interview, Santos said his mother’s family’s humanities Jewish sanction was “Zabrovsky,” and aboriginal appeared to run a GoFundMe run for a favored foundation (which helium falsely claimed was a 501(c)(3) nonprofit) nether that alias. Genealogists CNN antecedently spoke with recovered nary grounds of Jewish oregon Ukrainian practice successful his household tree.

In another, helium said his mother, whose household has lived successful Brazil since the precocious 1800s, was a White migrant from Belgium.

Santos’ run did not respond to CNN’s remark request.

Since reports archetypal surfaced astir his mendacious claims, Santos has made efforts to downplay his fabrications arsenic specified “embellishments.” But the antecedently unreported claims from Santos exemplify a signifier of fabricating details astir his life, often successful work of presenting a much compelling oregon absorbing idiosyncratic narrative. The Nassau County territory attorney’s bureau said Wednesday that it is looking into Santos’ fabrications, though it did not specify the falsehoods it would explore.

In interviews implicit the past fewer days, Santos admitted to lying astir parts of his resume, including graduating from college, but helium told the New York Post that the misrepresentation of his enactment past astatine Goldman Sachs and Citigroup was a “poor prime of words.” There is nary grounds helium worked astatine the apical fiscal institutions successful the country, arsenic helium had antecedently claimed.

Santos besides denied that helium falsely called himself Jewish, claiming helium “never claimed to beryllium Jewish” but jokingly said helium was “Jew-ish” to the New York Post. He besides falsely claimed that his grandparents “survived the Holocaust” and fled Europe to flight Jewish persecution. But CNN recovered that Santos called himself an “American Jew” and “Latino Jew” connected aggregate occasions. The Republican Jewish Coalition disinvited Santos from appearing astatine immoderate of its events due to the fact that helium “misrepresented his heritage.”

Despite the scandals, the New York Republican, who flipped his Long Island seat, said helium volition instrumentality bureau successful January — spurring calls to resign from Democrats.

Here are immoderate of the outright falsehoods CNN found:

In appearances, and successful an aged run biography, Santos claimed his parents sent him to Horace Mann, an elite backstage schoolhouse successful the Bronx.

“He began Horace Mann preparatory schoolhouse successful the Bronx, however, did not postgraduate from Horace Mann owed to fiscal difficulties for his family,” his biography work successful 2019 for his archetypal run for Congress that Santos lost. “He obtained a GED during his elder year.”

Santos besides made the aforesaid claim successful an quality connected a YouTube amusement successful 2020.

“They sent maine to a bully prep school, which was Horace Mann Prep successful the Bronx. And, successful my elder twelvemonth of prep school, unluckily my parents fell connected hard times, which was thing that would aboriginal go known arsenic the slump of 2008. But we were deed a small earlier connected with the overleveraging of existent estate. And the marketplace started to implode. Um, and the archetypal happening to spell was the prep school. You know, you, you can’t spend a $2,500 tuition astatine that point, right? So anyway, um, I near school, uh, 4 months to graduation.”

But the assertion is false, according to the school.

“We’ve searched the records and determination is nary grounds that George Santos (or immoderate alias) attended Horace Mann,” Ed Adler, a spokesperson for the school, told CNN.

“Have you ever heard of a Goldman Sachs worker instrumentality the signifier astatine the largest backstage equity league successful the satellite – SALT, tally by Anthony Scaramucci – and berate their employer? Well, I did that,” Santos said connected a section podcast this summer. “And I did it successful the manner of renewable vigor and planetary warming. This was the sheet I was on. And they’re each talking astir solar, wind, and this was back, what, 7 years agone now? And I said, you cognize what, this is simply a scam. It’s payer wealth that gets subsidized.”

The assertion is wholly fictional, according to some Goldman Sachs – which has said Santos ne'er worked determination – and Scaramucci, who runs the conference.

Scaramucci told CNN successful a connection determination is not lone nary grounds of him appearing connected a panel, but nary grounds of him adjacent attending the conference.

In an quality connected a Fox News integer show successful February, Santos said his maternal grandparents changed their Jewish past sanction from Zabrovsky – a assertion for which determination is nary grounds and records contradict.

“We don’t transportation the Ukrainian past name. For a batch of radical who are descendants of World War II refugees oregon survivors of the Holocaust, a batch of names and paperwork were changed successful the sanction of survival. So I don’t transportation the household past sanction that would’ve been Zabrovsky. I transportation my mother’s maiden sanction which is the Dutch broadside of the family.”

Megan Smolenyak, an writer and nonrecreational genealogist who helped probe Santos’ household histrion astatine CNN’s request, antecedently told CNN, “There’s nary motion of Jewish and/or Ukrainian practice and nary denotation of sanction changes on the way.”

Santos deleted his erstwhile backstage Facebook relationship past week, but CNN’s KFile reviewed records indicating helium utilized the alias of “Anthony Zabrovsky” for fundraising for a favored charity. The GoFundMe leafage nether that alias nary longer exists. CNN reached retired to GoFundMe but did not person a response.

In 1 vigor quality from December 2020, Santos falsely claimed that his parent “fled socialism” successful Europe and moved to the United States.

“My begetter fled socialism successful Brazil. My parent fled socialism successful Europe, and they came present and built a family. And contiguous they tin beryllium arrogant to person a lad who is simply a good accomplished businessman, who is present moving for United States Congress. That’s thing that wasn’t successful the cards for my family,” Santos said.

He besides claimed successful different interrogation from 2020 that helium “grew up with a White Caucasian mother, an migrant from Belgium.”

But Santos’ parent was calved successful Brazil, according to genealogical records.