Representative-elect George Santos admits to lying about his past - CBS News

George Santos admits to lying astir resume

Representative-elect George Santos admits to lying astir his past 02:39

Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., admitted Monday that helium lied astir his occupation acquisition and assemblage education during his palmy run for a spot successful the U.S. House.

In an interrogation with the New York Post, Santos said: "My sins present are embellishing my resume. I'm sorry."

He besides told the newspaper: "I campaigned talking astir the people's concerns, not my resume" and added, "I mean to present connected the promises I made during the campaign."

The New York Times raised questions past week astir the beingness communicative that Santos, 34, had presented during his campaign.

Joseph Cairo, Jr., the seat of the Nassau County Republican Committee, which includes overmuch of Santos' district, said successful a connection that Santos has "broken the nationalist trust" and said Santos volition person to "continually beryllium that helium has learned his lesson."  But Cairo did not telephone for Santos to measurement down. 

"He has a batch of enactment to bash to regain the spot of voters and everyone who helium represents successful Congress," Cairo said. But, Cairo said Santos "must bash the public's volition successful Washington. Residents privation him to present taxation alleviation and walk laws that volition marque our neighborhoods and our federation safer. "

Santos, a Queens resident, had said helium had obtained a grade from Baruch College successful New York, but connected Monday helium acknowledged: "I didn't postgraduate from immoderate instauration of higher learning. I'm embarrassed and atrocious for having embellished my resume."

He added: "I ain up to that. … We bash anserine things successful life."

A spokesperson from Baruch College had antecedently told CBS News that nary grounds of his attendance could beryllium found.  

Santos had besides said helium had worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, but representatives from some companies told CBS News past week that they could not corroborate Santos' employment.

Santos told the Post helium had "never worked directly" for either fiscal firm, saying helium had utilized a "poor prime of words."

He told the Post that Link Bridge, an concern institution wherever helium was a vice president, did concern with both.

An earlier mentation of Santos' run website stated, "George Anthony began moving astatine Citigroup arsenic an subordinate and rapidly precocious to go an subordinate plus manager successful the existent plus part of the firm," and successful the adjacent paragraph claimed "George Anthony was past offered an breathtaking accidental with Goldman Sachs but what helium thought would beryllium the pinnacle of his vocation was not arsenic fulfilling arsenic helium had anticipated." Neither slope is presently named connected his website.  

Another quality outlet, the Jewish American quality site The Forward, had questioned a assertion connected Santos' run website that his grandparents "fled Jewish persecution successful Ukraine, settled successful Belgium, and again fled persecution during WWII." It said records look to amusement his grandparents were calved successful Brazil.

"I ne'er claimed to beryllium Jewish," Santos told the Post. "I americium Catholic. Because I learned my maternal household had a Jewish inheritance I said I was 'Jew-ish.'"

The Republican Jewish Coalition CEO Matt Brooks said successful a connection Tuesday that Santos had "deceived" them and misrepresented his practice successful nationalist comments and to them "personally, helium claimed to beryllium Jewish."  "He would not beryllium invited astatine immoderate aboriginal RJC event," Brooks said.    

Santos archetypal ran for Congress successful 2020 and lost. He ran again successful 2022 and won successful the territory that includes immoderate Long Island suburbs and a tiny portion of Queens.