WASHINGTON — Rep.-elect George Santos, RN.Y., admitted Monday that he lied about his job expertise and school training throughout his profitable marketing campaign for a seat within the US Home.
In an interview with the New York Submit, Santos stated: “My sins listed below are embellishing my resume. I am sorry.”
He additionally advised the newspaper: “I campaigned speaking concerning the folks’s considerations, not my resume” and added, “I intend to ship on the guarantees I made throughout the marketing campaign.”
The New York Instances raised questions final week concerning the life story that Santos, 34, had offered throughout his marketing campaign.
The Queens resident had stated he had obtained a level from Baruch School in New York, however the faculty stated that could not be confirmed.
On Monday, Santos acknowledged: “I did not graduate from any establishment of upper studying. I am embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume.”
He added: “I come clean with that. We do silly issues in life.”
Santos had additionally stated he had labored for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, however neither firm might discover any data verifying that.
Santos advised the Submit he had “by no means labored immediately” for both monetary agency, saying he had used a “poor selection of phrases.”
He advised the Submit that Hyperlink Bridge, an funding firm the place he was a vice chairman, did enterprise with each.
One other information outlet, the Jewish American web site The Ahead, had questioned a declare on Santos’ marketing campaign web site that his grandparents “fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and once more fled persecution throughout WWII.”
“I’ve by no means been claimed to be Jewish,” Santos advised the Submit. “I’m Catholic. As a result of I realized my maternal household had a Jewish background I stated I used to be ‘Jew-ish.”‘
Santos first ran for Congress in 2020 and misplaced. He ran once more in 2022 and gained within the district that features some Lengthy Island suburbs and a small a part of Queens.