Representative-elect George Santos faces more allegations of lying about who he is

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Republican New York Rep.-elect George Santos emerged as an embattled political figure weeks before taking office, with his professional resume under intense scrutiny.

Now Santos is facing allegations that his Jewish heritage may be anything but what he claims to be.

Santos wrote in his campaign biography that his grandparents were born in Ukraine and escaped the Holocaust by fleeing to Belgium, before fleeing again to Brazil.

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The review raised questions about whether Santos is actually Jewish, as he claimed.

“Georges’ grandparents fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and fled persecution again during World War II. They were able to settle in Brazil, where his mother was born,” starts his campaign biography page.

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The Forward, a Jewish publication, cast doubt on Santos’ backstory in a report published Wednesday, where he dug into the genealogy website myheritage.com and found that his grandparents were born in Brazil, and not in Ukraine as the Long Island Republican had said.

In fact, Santos’ grandparents were born before the Nazis came to power in Germany, his grandfather, Paulo Horta Devolder, in 1918, and his grandmother, Rosalina Caruso Horta Devolder, in 1927.

Additionally, an online obituary for Fatima Aziza Caruso Horta Devolder, Santos’ mother, who died in 2016, said she was born in the Rio de Janeiro suburb of Niteri on December 22, 1968, to Paul and Rosalina Devolder. .

The Forward also reported that Santos’ mother’s Facebook page, on which her page is tagged, never mentioned the words “Jewish,” “Jew,” or terms like Israel, Yom Kippur, or Shabbat.

Santos’ mother liked pages on Facebook featuring Catholic content, with four of the seven pages she liked on the website being Catholic-themed. Another page was that of a Brazilian priest and singer.

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The Forward also noted that Santos’ late mother regularly shared Catholic-themed posts and images of Jesus on her Facebook page, including a post eight months before her death.

“For some the cross of Christ is a symbol of defeat, for us it is a symbol of salvation,” wrote the message from Brazilian Christian group Tarde com Maria in Portuguese.

Another message from the band adapts a quote from Genesis, writing, “There is an angel today, delivering from all evil.”

Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) Chairman Matt Brooks released a statement on the report drawing attention to Santos’ legacy, writing that the organization has contacted the elected member of Congress about the allegations.

“These allegations, if true, are deeply troubling,” Brooks said. “Given how serious they are, the MP-elect owes the public an explanation, and we can’t wait to hear it.”

Santos’ legacy isn’t the only part of his backstory under scrutiny. The Daily Beast reported that the first openly gay elected Republican congressman has not publicly disclosed his marriage to a woman, Uadla Santos Vieira Santos.

The Daily Beast report revealed that Santos and his wife divorced in 2019. Santos launched his 2020 congressional bid against New York Democratic Rep. Tom Suozzi less than two weeks after the marriage ended.

The congressional elected campaign’s biography says he lives on Long Island with her husband, whom he identified as a pharmacist to the US and Brazilian media when discussing his engagement.

The allegations come after a bombshell Monday New York Times investigation into the embattled Empire State Republican found his professional resume wasn’t up to snuff. The Times reported that Santos’ claims of previous employment with Citigroup and Goldman Sachs could not be verified. Company spokespersons confirmed to Fox News Digital that they have no record of Santos’ employment.

Santos claimed the animal welfare charity may also not exist, as Internal Revenue Service (IRS) records have no results for Santos, claimed nonprofit Friends of Pets United.

The curriculum vitae of the college elected to Congress was also not retained. Santos claimed to have graduated from Baruch College in New York, but the school confirmed to Fox News Digital that there was no record of his attendance.

References to Goldman Sachs, Citigroup and Baruch College were removed from Santos’ campaign website between Oct. 21 and Oct. 27, according to archived screenshots taken by the Wayback Machine and first reported by Axios.

Santos, who swung New York’s 3rd congressional district to the GOP column in November, called allegations that he lied to voters about his biography “defamation” and “libel.”

“George Santos represents the kind of progress that the left is so threatened by a gay, Latino, first-generation American, Republican who won a Biden district landslide by showing everyday voters that there is a better option than the broken promises and failed policies of the Democratic Party.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 blow gun attacks,” Santos said through his attorney, Joseph Murray.

“It’s no surprise that Congressman-elect Santos has enemies in the New York Times who are trying to smear his reputation with these defamatory allegations. As Winston Churchill said, you have enemies? Good. That means you stood for something, at some point in your life,” Murray said. This quote, although often attributed to Winston Churchill, is actually from Victor Hugo in his 1845 Villemain essay. There is no evidence Churchill ever said.

Santos posted a tweet on Thursday saying he would respond to the allegations “next week”.

“To the people of #NY03, I have my story to tell and it will be told next week,” Santos wrote. “I want to assure everyone that I will answer your questions and that I remain committed to getting the results I campaigned on; public safety, inflation, education [and] Following.”

Santos was immediately harassed by the tweet, with voices from both sides of the aisle lashing out at the elected member of Congress.

The allegations do not bode well for Santos, who faces calls for him to step down or for Congress to bar him from being seated.

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If the allegations are true, the New York Republican will have some explaining to his constituents for his fabricated backstory.

The Santos campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.

Fox News Digitals Chris Pandolfo and Kyle Morris contributed reporting.

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