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    • allegedly lied to donors, then used their money to make purchases at Hermes and Only Fans
    • used campaign money for personal travel and Botox
    • allegedly committed identity theft
    • allegedly lied to Congress
    • reimbursed himself for loans he did not make
    • lied about where he went to high school
    • … and college… -… and never worked on Wall Street, either
    • lied about founding an animal charity
    • allegedly swindled a disabled vet whose dog was dying
    • may have ripped off an Amish dog breeder with a bad check
    • marital status is “it’s complocated” because his stories and bio and marriage licenses don’t add up
    • unclear if his mother’s death was related to 9/11 as he claims
    • grandmother was definitely not a Holocaust victim
    • he did not have employees who died in the Pulse shooting
    • niece did not get kidnapped
    • “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”
    • may have been a drag queen in Brazil
    • was not on Hannah Montana
    • did not have a role in The Invasion with Uma Thurman because she wasn’t in it, and neither was he
    • was never a Broadway producer
    • was never a journalist in Brazil
    • his staff impersonated House Speaker Kevin McCarthy to raise money
    • staff racked up huge unexplained expenses and charged them to donor credit cards on file along with payments to “anonymous” and themselves
    • was not the target of an assassination

    https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/guide-george-santos-lies.html