George Santos dismissed calls from marketing campaign workers to drop out after startling background verify outcomes: report

Disgraced Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) dismissed calls from his marketing campaign workers to drop out of the race for New York’s third Congressional District after a routine background verify uncovered a number of of his many lies, in step with a report. 

In late 2021, an opposition evaluation company employed by Santos’ group to conduct a “vulnerability study” on the candidate found no proof of Santos’ purported ranges from Baruch College and New York University, the New York Times reported on Friday.

The agency did uncover info of evictions, a suspended Florida driver’s license, his involvement with a corporation accused of a Ponzi scheme, and that the overtly gay candidate had been married to a woman, the knowledge outlet reported. 

The evaluation company’s findings startled some members of Santos’ group rather a lot so that they urged him to drop out of the race, in step with the report. 

Santos dismissed the outcomes of the background verify and ignored suggestion to drop out or face being humiliated, reportedly prompting most of his marketing campaign group to hand over.

Santos would go on to lease new distributors for his marketing campaign by spring 2022, in step with the report. 

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, a bunch that works to elect Democrats to the House, compiled 87 pages worth of opposition evaluation in opposition to Santos sooner than his race in opposition to Robert Zimmerman that uncovered a number of of, nevertheless not all of, the findings from the evaluation company employed by Santos’ group, the New York Times found. 

The DCCC uncovered proof of evictions, a pet charity associated to him that wasn’t registered with the IRS, his ties to Harbor City Capital (the alleged Ponzi scheme), and discrepancies in his financial disclosure varieties. 

Zimmerman’s marketing campaign had entry to the DCCC file on Santos nevertheless opted to not spend beneficial marketing campaign cash on additional rigorous evaluation into Santos’ earlier and instead focused on his views on abortion and the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, in step with the report.

Santos went on to defeat Zimmerman throughout the 2022 midterm elections. More than a month later, the New York Times dropped its bombshell report exposing Santos’ apparent lies. 

The Long Island Republican then admitted to The Post in December of ultimate 12 months that he fabricated his work and coaching historic previous, lied about proudly proudly owning 13 properties, and was actually married to a woman sooner than launching his first congressional marketing campaign in 2020. 

Several of Santos’ Republican and Democratic colleagues in Congress have often called for him to resign. He is extra probably to face an investigation by the House Ethics Committee and is presently being probed on the native, state and federal stage in connection to the funding of his House marketing campaign.

Brazilian authorities moreover reopened an investigation into Santos over allegations of verify fraud stemming from a 2008 incident tied to a stolen checkbook.

The freshman congressman says he’ll solely step down if the 142,000 people who voted for him requested him to resign.