WASHINGTON — Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., admitted Monday that he lied about his job expertise and school training throughout his profitable marketing campaign for a seat within the U.S. House.
In an interview with the New York Post, Santos mentioned: “My sins here are embellishing my resume. I’m sorry.”
He additionally instructed the newspaper: “I campaigned talking about the people’s concerns, not my resume” and added, “I intend to deliver on the promises I made during the campaign.”
The New York Times raised questions final week in regards to the life story that Santos, 34, had introduced throughout his marketing campaign.
The Queens resident had mentioned he had obtained a level from Baruch College in New York, however the faculty mentioned that couldn’t be confirmed.
On Monday, Santos acknowledged: “I didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning. I’m embarrassed and sorry for having embellished my resume.”
He added: “I own up to that. … We do stupid things in life.”
Santos had additionally mentioned he had labored for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, however neither firm might discover any information verifying that.
Santos instructed the Post he had “never worked directly” for both monetary agency, saying he had used a “poor choice of words.”
He instructed the Post that Link Bridge, an funding firm the place he was a vp, did enterprise with each.
Another information outlet, the Jewish American web site The Forward, had questioned a declare on Santos’ marketing campaign web site that his grandparents “fled Jewish persecution in Ukraine, settled in Belgium, and again fled persecution during WWII.”
“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos instructed the Post. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘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 Long Island suburbs and a small a part of Queens.
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