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The openly gay congressman-elect who is already accused of lying about his career in finance and his college education now appears to have fabricated details about his family escaping the Holocaust and perhaps even his own sexual orientation.
During the 2022 election cycle, New York Republican George Santos described himself as gay and married to his pharmacist husband. Now a bombshell report the daily beast alleges that there is no record of that marriage.
However, there is a record that shows that Santos was married to a woman named Uadla Vieira, a native of Brazil, until 2019. The couple married in 2012.
DailyMail.com has now obtained an exclusive photo of Vieira, who appears in a car with a girl. It is not clear if the child is his.
Santos was on the ballot against Democratic businessman Robert Zimmerman, who is also gay, and defeated him by eight points in November in New York’s 3rd congressional district, which covers parts of northern Long Island and northeast Queens.
Besides, The front previously reported that Santos, who previously described himself as non-observant Jewish and Catholic, fabricated his family history. He previously claimed that his maternal grandparents escaped the Holocaust.
George Santos (right) poses with his then-fiancee at Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Eve. Santos was the first gay Republican elected to the US Congress.
Public records, however, show that he was previously married to a woman named Uadla Vieira, originally from Brazil, until 2019.
This month, the Jewish Telegraph Agency he reported that there was “little to suggest the truth beyond his own earlier comments” about his family fleeing the horror of World War II.
According to one CNN According to the report, genealogical records show that the Santos family has lived in Brazil for at least four generations and there is no evidence that they are Jewish or of Eastern European descent.
Santos was born in the Jackson Heights section of Queens to Fatima Devolder and Gercino Santos, Brazilian immigrants. Forward’s report says Fatima Devolder’s parents were born in Brazil and neither was Jewish.
In October, Santos said USA Today in an interview: “I’m openly gay, I’ve never had a problem with my sexual identity in the last decade, and I can tell you and assure you that I will always be an advocate for LGBTQ people.” He also said that he never experienced discrimination within the Republican Party.
The Daily Beast report says that Santos was granted an uncontested divorce in Queens County in September 2019.
Republican Rep.-elect George Santos comes to Congress in January with a degree from Baruch College and works at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, according to his campaign bio, but a New York Times investigation suggests those claims could be false.
On Monday night, Santos’ attorney, Joseph Murray, issued a statement attacking the New York Times for “throwing[ing] this attack shotgun
Earlier this week, reporters went to the place where Santos is registered to vote and the address associated with a campaign donation he made in October, but the woman who lives at that address said Sunday she was not familiar with Santos.
He had originally run for New York’s third congressional seat in 2020, but was defeated by incumbent Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi.
This time, Suozzi decided not to run for re-election, and instead ran for governor, failing to defeat Kathy Hochul in the state’s Democratic primary.
On his campaign website, Santos boasts that he is the son of Brazilian immigrants, had to drop out of high school, but earned his GED and earned a degree in economics and finance from Baruch College.
“After graduation, George Anthony began working at Citigroup as an associate and quickly progressed to associate asset manager in the firm’s real assets division,” the campaign website says.
A Citigroup spokeswoman, Danielle Romero-Apsilos, said the company could not confirm Santos’ employment.
She was also unfamiliar with Santos’ alleged position, noting that Citi had sold its asset management operations in 2005, five years before Santos said he graduated from college.
George Santos (left) shakes hands with Rudy Giuliani (right). The New York Times discovered that Santos may have lied about where he went to school and how he worked for big financial institutions like Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.
Santos also said that he worked at MetGlobal and “was then offered an exciting opportunity with Goldman Sachs, but what he thought would be the pinnacle of his career was not as fulfilling as he had anticipated.”
The Times was unable to reach anyone at MetGlobal for comment, while Goldman Sachs spokeswoman Abbey Collins told The Times she was unable to find any records of Santos working for the company.
The next company Santos says he worked for, called LinkBridge Investors, had a paper record for him.
A company document listed Santos as vice president and his May 2020 campaign disclosure form said he was earning $55,000 in salary, commissions and bonuses.
While running for Congress, Santos took a job at Harbor City Capital, a Florida-based investment firm that was sued by the Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly running a $17 million Ponzi scheme.
Santos was not named in the lawsuit.
Harbor City executives also created a company called Red Strategies USA that did political work for a client, Tina Forte, the Republican challenger to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.
Santos then went to work for his family’s business, the Devolder Organization, and put on his financial disclosure forms that he earns a salary of $750,000 — that’s nearly 14 times what he was earning in 2020 at LinkBridge.
Santos (left) poses with Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin (right), who lost to New York Governor Kathy Hochul for the Governor’s Mansion in 2022
The Times found that the Devolder Organization had been dissolved for failing to file an annual report.
Santos also claimed that his family owned 13 properties, but there are no records of that either.
“We worked hard to acquire these assets,” he said in a February 2021 post, complaining about how tenants couldn’t be evicted during the pandemic.
But The Times found evidence that Santos had been sued for eviction from the properties he rented, once in November 2015 and again in May 2017.
The first owner, María Tulumba, told The Times that Santos was a “nice guy” and a “respectful” tenant, but had financial problems that led to the eviction case.
Santos appears voting in the November elections. He first ran for Congress in 2020, losing to incumbent Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi.
As a teenager in Brazil, Santos got into legal trouble for stealing the checkbook of the man his mother worked for and writing checks for purchases, including a pair of shoes, The Times also reported.
On his campaign website, Santos said he founded a nonprofit organization called Friends of Pets United, however the Internal Revenue Service had no record of its existence.
The group held at least one fundraiser with a New Jersey animal rescue group in 2017, where tickets cost $50.
The event beneficiary anonymously told The Times that she never received any of the money, receiving repeated excuses from Santos.
The Times story was met with attacks from Santos’ attorney, Joseph Murray, on Monday night.
“George Santos represents the kind of progress that so threatens the left: a gay, Latino, first-generation Republican American who overwhelmingly won a Biden district by showing voters every day that there is a better option than the other ones.” broken promises and failed Democratic Party policies,’ Murray said in a statement tweeted by Santos.
“After four years in the public eye, and about to be sworn in as a member of the Republican-led 118th Congress, The New York Times launches this flurry of attacks,” he continued.
“It’s no surprise that Congressman-Elect Santos has enemies in The New York Times who are trying to tarnish his good name with these slanderous allegations,” Murray said.
Murray went on to mistakenly attribute a quote from Victor Hugo to Winston Churchill.
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