Republican congressman-elect George Santos is finding out the hard way that if you lie, it catches up with you. And if you lie about your entire life, Republicans will elevate you to a seat in Congress. Santos will be sworn in on Tuesday despite a mountain of information that's come up about his fabricated history.
The New York Times published another revealing article about Santos, and it's fascinating. He's been a liar for his entire life.
By 2008, court records show, Mr. Santos and his mother were living in Brazil, just outside Rio de Janeiro in the city of Niterói. Just a month before his 20th birthday, Mr. Santos entered a small clothing store and spent nearly $700 in 2008 dollars using a stolen checkbook and a false name, court records show.
Mr. Santos has denied that he committed crimes in the United States or abroad. But the Brazilian record shows that he admitted the fraud to both the police and the shopkeeper."I know I screwed up, but I want to pay," he wrote in a message to the store's owner on Orkut, a popular social media website in Brazil, in August 2009. "It was always my intention to pay, but I messed up."
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