Rep.-elect George Santos (R-NY) came clean to the New York Post on Monday, admitting that he lied on the campaign trail about his education and work experience — but insisting that the controversy won’t deter him from serving out his two-year term in Congress.
Said Santos: “I am not a criminal. This will not deter me from having good legislative success. I will be effective. I will be good.”
Santos confessed that he had “never worked directly” for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, chalking that fib up to a “poor choice of words.”
He also admitted that he never graduated from any college, despite previously claiming to have received a degree from Baruch in 2010.
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