"The 34-year-old called into a talk radio show for an interview with WABC to address the Times investigation," reported Jake Lahut. "'Well, the record is, I don't know what my options are,' Santos said when asked if he would sue the publication."
Santos, a Brazilian immigrant, made several claims about himself in the course of his congressional campaign that have come under scrutiny. He claimed to have graduated from Baruch College and New York University, which have no records of his attendance, and that he went on to work for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, which have no records of his employment. An openly gay man, he claims to have lost four coworkers from his company at the Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando, but none of the identified victims have a record at the firms mentioned in his biography. And he claimed to have run a charity called Friends of Pets United, which rescued thousands of dogs and cats — a charity that does not appear anywhere in IRS tax records.
