George Santos was just elected to be the Representative for the Third District of New York. The Republican ran on a complete lie about his life. Somehow he managed to keep his fictional life from being found out. Now the Republican leadership in Nassau County is trying to find out how a fraud could have slipped through the cracks in the investigations of a nominee.

            This is Santos’ stated biography. He graduated from New York State University and Baruch College. (Neither Institution ever heard of him.) His work history is he worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, two powerful companies on Wall Street. (Neither have any record of him working for them.) Santos says he ran a 501C3 charity named Friends of pets United. (The Internal Revenue Service designates who is a non-profit and they have no record of it.)

            Santos reported he has an income of $750,000 from the Devolder Organization where he ran a “Family Firm”. (No investigation has found any record of its existence.)

            Not in his biography but investigations have found out he confessed to being involved with a group committing check fraud. He confessed but apparently didn’t serve time. He has agreed with the question when asked. One report is his campaign was paid for from a loan financed by a Russian oligarch. He won’t comment on it. He was evicted several times from various residences for failure to pay the rent.

            With a five seat majority in the House can Republicans afford to toss him out and hope another Republican could win a special election when Santos won by only eight points in a District where President Biden won it in a landslide? After Trump is Santos’ so bad?  Who cares?