More obvious lies have been uncovered from the largely fictional personal biography of Congressman-elect George Santos — including his enrollment in a prestigious Bronx prep school, in line with a latest report.
In the latest series of newly revealed fabrications, Santos claimed to have attended Horace Mann, but the elite private school has no records of the 34-year-old Long Island politician being enrolled.
Santos, W campaign biography after failing to run for Congress in 2019, he said that he “began Horace Mann Preparatory School in the Bronx, nevertheless, he didn’t graduate from Horace Mann resulting from his family’s financial difficulties.”
Santos elaborated during an interview in 2020 that the 2008 financial crisis allegedly forced his parents to tug him out of college.
“They sent me to a superb prep school which was Horace Mann Prep in the Bronx. And unfortunately, in the last yr of elementary school, my parents had a tough time, which later became often known as the depression of 2008,” Santos stated on Police Off the Cuff After Hours.
“Barely earlier, we were affected by excessive leverage of real estate. And the market began to implode. Um, and the very first thing to do was prep school. , you possibly can’t afford $2,500 tuition straight away, right? So anyway, um, I left school, uh, 4 months to graduation,” he added.
This story doesn’t work, in line with a CNN reportage on Wednesday.
“We searched the records and there isn’t any evidence that George Santos (or any alias) attended Horace Mann,” Ed Adler, a spokesman for the Horace Mann school, told CNN.
The news site has revealed quite a lot of other alleged untruths that Santos has committed in recent times.
Over the summer, Santos told a Recent York podcast that he had publicly criticized Goldman Sachs at a conference while he was an worker of the Wall Street giant – a job Santos told The Post on Monday he had misrepresented.
“Have you ever ever heard of a Goldman Sachs worker taking the stage at the largest private equity conference in the world – SALT, hosted by Anthony Scaramucci – and criticizing his employer? Well, I did,” Santos said on the podcast.
“And I did it in the type of renewable energy and global warming. This was the panel I used to be on. They usually all talk about the sun, the wind, and that was back seven years ago? And I said, you understand what, that is cheating. It’s taxpayers’ money that’s being subsidized.”
Scaramucci told CNN that there isn’t any record of Santos attending one in every of his conferences.
Santos also apparently falsely claimed that his family had the Jewish surname Zabrovsky and used it to boost funds for an animal charity.
“We don’t carry a Ukrainian surname. For a lot of people who find themselves descendants of World War II refugees or Holocaust survivors, many names and documents have been modified in the name of survival. So I do not have a family name that might be Zabrovsky. I even have my mother’s maiden name, which is an element of the Dutch family,” Santos told Fox News digital in February.
A genealogist hired by CNN found “no traces of Jewish and/or Ukrainian heritage, nor any signs of name changes along the way.”
Santos also stated in a December 2020 radio interview that his mother “fled away from socialism in Europe” and in one other 2020 interview that she immigrated to the United States from Belgium, but genealogy records reviewed by the news site show that the mother Santosa was born in Brazil.
The Nassau County Republican District Attorney announced Wednesday that her office was investigating GOP congressman-elect George Santos after he admitted to The Post earlier this week that he had fabricated lots of his past claims about his life.
“The many fabrications and inconsistencies surrounding Congressman-elect Santos are simply staggering,” District Attorney Anne Donnelly said in a press release. “The people of Nassau County and other parts of District 3 will need to have an honest and accountable representative in Congress,” Donnelly added.
“Nobody is above the law and if against the law has been committed on this county, we’ll prosecute it,” she continued.