BREAKING: Brazilian prosecutors renewing fraud charges against Santos
George Santos The UK-based newspaper The Independent and several other news outlets are reporting breaking news that prosecutors in Brazil are reviving fraud charges against U.S.
Representative-elect George Santos. Santos, due to be sworn in Tuesday, Jan. 3, made history last November as the first openly gay non-incumbent Republican elected to Congress.
He defeated gay Democratic candidate Robert Zimmerman to flip New York’s previously blue 3rd congressional district to red. But Santos has been under fire since mid-December when the New York Times published an article highlighting Santos’ apparent lies about everything from his ethnicity — he claimed to be Jewish — to his education and his employment background.
There are also questions regarding how he went from being thousands of dollars in debt to lending his own campaign for Congress more than $700,000, even though he had claimed to have no assets and an annual salary of only $55,000.
