Michael Wolraich: Authorities started looking into Santas around the end of December. He said that his grandparents fled first from Ukraine and then from Belgium during World War II, which turned out not to be true. From there, he talks about his mother working her way up through the world of finance and eventually being in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001,. It's like he made up every single point of his biography, right? And we got a look at the case that federal prosecutors were bringing against him.
Last year, Times reporting revealed the many lies that the freshman Republican congressman George Santos had told about his life and career. Now he is facing legal consequences.
Michael Gold, who covers politics in New York for The Times, explains the charges against Mr. Santos and what they mean for his role in Congress.
Guest: Michael Gold, a New York politics correspondent for The New York Times.
Background reading:
- George Santos pleaded not guilty to charges that included accusations of fraudulently receiving unemployment benefits.
- The George Santos indictment, annotated.
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