An Update on Santos the Liar

It's been a few weeks since we last checked in on our prevaricating pal, George Santos.  

There have been additional questions about what he did with the money from the GoFundMe campaign for his mother's funeral:

 

Then came reports of theft from a Brazilian news outlet:

 

 

 

Rachel Maddow also reported that Santos claimed to have been the subject of an assassination plot and the victim of a mugging on Fifth Avenue in New York.   “We have already suffered an attempt on my life, an assassination attempt, a threatening letter, having to have the police, a police escort standing in front of our house,” the then-congressman-elect told the Brazilian podcast “Radio Novelo Apresenta” in December.

Santos alleged his Florida home was vandalized in January 2021 “because we were at a Republican party” to celebrate the new year.  And he said two white men mugged him “in broad daylight” on Fifth Avenue in the summer of 2021, stealing his shoes, watch and briefcase. “That wasn’t the worst of it,” Santos told the podcast host. “Nobody did anything. Nobody did anything. The fear is real. It’s surreal what we live through here.”  “Surreal is one word for it,” Maddow said after showing the footage.

A few weeks later, news outlets disclosed a lot of sketchy details about Santos' pet charity-- including reports that he altered a check to steal charity funds.  It also looks like that the “charity” never really existed outside of GoFundMe pages, and its Facebook group is no longer active.

In an interview with Newsmax this week, Santos raised a new claim that he founded a company when he was only 13 years old.  When pressed on the source of funded he contributed to his house campaign, Santos said that all the funding was "legitimate money obtained through my legal practices with my company, and I distributed my dividends to myself."   When asked for further details, Santos replied, "Devolder Organizations was founded in 2001 when I stepped away from my previous employment and I decided to go on my own to do exactly what I did for other companies for years, which is capital introduction, relationship management of high net-worth individuals.”  The problem with that?  According to his congressional biography, Santos was born on July 22, 1988-- which means that Santos was barely a teenager at the time. 

I have no doubt that this won't be the last we hear about the shady dealings of this guy.