Newly minted Rep. George Santos' lies and history are catching up to him. George has lied about his education and falsely claimed that he worked at Citigroup after graduating from college. He claimed he has 13 rental properties. He said in a campaign video, "I've seen how socialism destroys people's lives because my grandparents survived the Holocaust." Lies. All lies. His entire life is a lie.
And now there are allegations of theft after ten former friends, acquaintances, and coworkers got together in a WhatsApp group text, where acquaintances and coworkers of Santos bond to share their own stories about Santos.
Via the Patch:
The group members live in Brazil, Florida, and New York. They include friends he met while living in New York, roommates who felt scammed by their tenant arrangements with him, and a Brazilian woman who once took Santos in when he needed a place to stay and food to eat until eventually, she told Patch, "he stole my life."
They knew Santos at different times of his life, and often under different variations of his name. But they all said they've been lied to, and most also suspect Santos stole from them. Four people told Patch that when they asked Santos if he had stolen items or money from them, he blamed another friend or relative.
According to the outlet, Adriana Damaisceno Parizzi Correia met Santos' mother Fatima Devolder, while playing Bingo. Devolder's son, whom she called Anthony, joined his mother and sister in 2010 in Brazil.
Correia felt sympathetic toward Devolder — "she didn't have any money" — so she offered Santos a place to stay, fed him and even gave him money so he could return to New York in February 2011. He wasn't working at the time, Parizzi said, adding that she believed he wasn't interested in finding a job.
Then Devolder told her Santos "was in a little bit of trouble," but nothing serious, and needed money to leave Brazil for New York in 2011. It wasn't until December 2022 that she learned, while watching television, that Santos and his mother admitted to Brazilian police in November 2010 that he stole checks from an elderly man's checkbook and tried to buy clothes with them.
We've all had shitty roommates at least once, but this guy takes the cake.
Correia moved to New York with her family in 2011. Santos traveled with them and moved in with them in Jackson Heights, Queens — "My mom paid for everything," including his flight, Parizzi said.
Then, Correia noticed cash she had in the apartment began to disappear. When she asked Santos about it, he blamed one of his cousins.
When Correia and her family briefly moved into an apartment in 2014 that Anthony shared with a boyfriend, Santos told her that it was a very dangerous area and that he should hold her jewelry. She believed him. He never did return the jewelry.
The Patch tells a story of unpaid loans, missing possessions, a costly Armani dress shirt that went missing, and a stolen Burberry scarf. Three checks were stolen from one man's E*Trade checkbook and bounced after being written for $10,000 each.
One former friend spotted the $500 Burberry shirt he believed Santos stole from him on Santos' Instagram account after he announced his 2020 Congressional bid.
There isn't one redeemable quality about this guy. His entire life is a giant mess. There are no takesie backsies for this sort of thing. He (allegedly!) stole from his friends. Yikes.
