As His Life of Fantasy Comes Into Focus, George Santos Goes to Washington
One who was close to Mr. Santos was Pedro Vilarva. Mr. Vilarva met Mr. Santos in 2014, when he was 18 and Mr. Santos was 26. Mr. Vilarva found him charming and sweet. They dated for a few months before Mr. Santos suggested they move in together. Mr. Vilarva said he felt on top of the world — even if he said he did find himself footing many of the bills.
“He used to say he would get money from Citigroup, he was an investor,” Mr. Vilarva recalled. “One day it’s one thing, one day it’s another thing. He never ever actually went to work,” he said.
Things began to unravel between the two men in early 2015, Mr. Vilarva said, after Mr. Santos surprised him with tickets to Hawaii that turned out not to exist. Around the same time, he said he discovered that his cellphone was missing, and believed Mr. Santos had pawned it.
The betrayal prompted him to plug Mr. Santos’s name into a search engine, where he found that Mr. Santos was wanted by Brazilian police.
“I woke up in the morning, and I packed my stuff all in trash bags, and I called my father and I left,” he said.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/01/nyregion/george-santos-congress-republican-new-york.html
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was married to a Brazilian woman, Uadla Vieira, for seven years.
Whatever he sure as hell is a criminal opportunist. 
is a magat congressman. 
mother wasn't really in the World Trade Center on 9/11.
I'm hoping he's not really a US citizen and he gets Deported back to Brazil to faces the Charges there.
Or he's brought up on charges here for FEC Violations.
Happy New Year, speak easy! 
I am more optimistic now than for many a year. 
Happy New Year!
to you and yours! 
I find it absolutely mind-boggling that Santos evidently thought he could pull this off!
At one time, it might have been doable. But almost a quarter of the way into the 21st century, when so much information is available on the internet, and millions of people have access to that info and the skills to find it? The idea that he thought he could keep a lid on all of this indefinitely is almost hilarious. Or it would be, if this rank impostor freaking criminal were not on the verge of taking a seat in the U.S. House of Representatives!
As it is, the whole thing seems like a joke. A very, very, VERY BAD joke! If he had ANY sense at all, Santos would have given the whole thing up and gone into hiding by now (to the extent that such a thing is possible in this day and age). But he obviously has no sense, so there's no telling what he'll do. I imagine he'll show up on Tuesday to get sworn in as if everything's fine, unless something happens between now and then to prevent it (and I have no idea what that might be).
What a mess. If only the Dems still had the majority and the Speakership wasn't up in the air! As it is, Kevin McCarthy doesn't care about anything right now except getting enough votes to be Speaker, and that weak-willed, spineless jellyfish isn't about to rock any boats that might jeopardize that. 
And all we can do is watch and wait. ARGH! 
