George Santos Resume Shows Republican Congressman Was Specific About His False College Background

A resume submitted by disgraced Rep. George Santos to the Nassau County Republican Committee in 2020 details for the first time the extent of his outlandish lies surrounding his employment history and education.

The resume, first obtained by the New York Times, offers precise specificity to the litany of lies that have led Santos to be publicly chastised by members throughout his party, and even his New York colleagues.

Santos claimed to have held managerial positions at both CitiGroup and Goldman Sachs, bragging about doubling revenue growth by hundreds of millions of dollars — "300M to 600M" — and developing a "new sales strategy" for the latter company.

Both companies have confirmed the absence of any evidence of Santos ever being employed by them, and reporting from the Times shows that during the period Santos claims to have worked at CitiGroup, he was actually employed as a customer service agent at Dish Network.

The two-page resume was sent to the Long Island GOP committee during the time Santos was merely interested in running to represent New York's 3rd Congressional District. The committee sent him a standard vetting questionnaire seeking his qualifications for the seat, and Santos eagerly replied with a document riddled with lies.

Santos claimed to have graduated summa cum laude with a 3.89 G.P.A. from Baruch College in 2010. He said he went on to earn an M.B.A. from NYU in 2013, after scoring a stellar 710 on the GMAT. Neither degree was real, and Santos has since admitted he never even attended either institution.

"George Santos's campaign last year was a campaign of deceit, lies and fabrication," Nassau County Republican Chairman Joseph G. Cairo Jr. said at a news conference on Long Island Wednesday.

In what may be his most absurdly brazen lie, Santos told Cairo Jr. personally that he was a star on the Barch college volleyball team, leading the team to the league championship.

"He told me that, I remember specifically, 'I'm into sports a little bit,' that he was a star on the Baruch volleyball team and that they won the league championship," Cairo said Wednesday.

Had Nassau County Republicans dug into any of the claims, they likely would have found that much of Mr. Santos's account was badly fabricated. Instead, without another candidate interested in the crucial House seat, they made the mistake of taking Santos's word and offered their full backing, guiding him to the surprising victory in a district Biden won by five points in 2020.

As calls for Santos to resign continue to grow, he has vowed to remain in his seat, saying in an interview on Steve Bannon's War Room he would be in Congress "until those same 142,000 people tell me they don't want me," referring to the constituents who elected him in November.