George Santos worked at call center in Queens, not Goldman Sachs and had unpaid debts

Incumbent New York congressman George Santos’ past is undergoing more scrutiny as a new report reveals that rather than work on Wall Street in his pre-political career, he worked at a call center on a quiet industrial avenue in Queens.

Earlier this week, Santos was revealed to have lied about working at Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, as well as attending New York University and CUNY Baruch College. 

A follow-up New York Times report now details that Santos was in fact working at a DISH Satellite call center in the College Point section of Queens, living with roommates and struggling to pay his bills. 

Meanwhile, a colleague who used to work with Santos at a hotel chain told DailyMail.com that the congressman wrote a bad check to Conway Funeral Home in Jackson Heights to pay for his mother’s funeral in 2016.  

Other accusations have emerged against Santos, such as allegedly lying about his family’s history. Santos had previously said that his Jewish maternal grandparents escaped the Holocaust by moving to Brazil. Records show that his maternal grandparents were Brazilian-born Catholics. 

More accusations about incumbent congressman George Santos’ past have emerged, here he’s pictured on the campaign trail in Glen Cove, New York

The ‘openly gay’ Santos, who lives in Long Island with his fiancé, was also revealed to have been secretly married to a woman named Uadla between 2012 and 2019. 

The Donald Trump-supporting politician won a historic victory on November 8 when he became the first openly gay non incumbent Republican elected to Congress.

He defeated Robert Zimmerman, an openly gay longtime left-wing operative, for outgoing Democrat Rep. Tom Suozzi’s seat in New York’s 3rd Congressional District.

In response to the various inaccuracies in his biography, Santos tweeted: ‘To the people of #NY03 I have my story to tell and it will be told next week. I want to assure everyone that I will address your questions and that I remain committed to deliver the results I campaigned on; Public safety, Inflation, Education & more.’

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Santos’ mother, Fátima Devolder, died in 2016. The congressman has claimed that she was an executive working in the South Tower on 9/11

A new report says that at the time Santos said he was working at Goldman Sachs, he was actually working at a call center in Queens for $15 an hour

The DISH Network call center in College Point, Queens, were Santos answered customer calls in Portuguese and English for $15 an hour between 2011 and 2012

A colleague of Santos’ told the Times that the soon-to-be-congressman worked at the call center between 2011 and 2012 for around $15 an hour, taking calls in both English and Portuguese. He’s the son of Brazilian immigrants. 

His roommate at the time, Gregory Morey-Parker, told the Times that Santos would tell outlandish tales about his family having property in Nantucket while his mother worked as a housekeeper. 

Another former friend, Peter Hamilton, said that he met Santos in 2014 and lent him money so that the Republican could move into a home with his boyfriend. 

When that loan wasn’t repaid, Hamilton took Santos to small claims court, where a judge ordered the Queens-native to pay up $5,000 plus interest. 

That same year, a landlord in Queens took Santos, his sister and mother to court over three months of unpaid rent which resulted in the trio being evicted. 

Hamilton told the Times: ‘I have regrets that I didn’t come forward before the actual election. At this point, it’s like, he’s defrauding the public.’

Public records, however, show that he was previously married to a woman named Uadla Vieira, a native of Brazil, until 2019

George Santos (right) poses with his then fiancé at Mar-a-Lago on New Year’s Eve. Santos was the first out gay Republican elected to the U.S. Congress 

George Santos (left) shakes the hand of Rudy Giuliani (right). The New York Times found out Santos may have lied about where he went to school and working for big financial institutions like Citigroup and Goldman Sachs

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On Monday night, Santos’ lawyer Joseph Murray put out a statement attacking The New York Times for ‘launch[ing] this shotgun blast of attacks’ 

In 2015, another landlord took Santos to court over $2,250 unpaid rent. The same thing happened in 2017 with a different landlord who ordered the future representative to fork over $12,000. 

It wasn’t just landlords who had an issue, Discover Card won a judgement over Santos in 2018 to the tune of $1,027.45. 

DailyMail.com’s source said of Santos’ mother’s funeral: ‘When his mother passed away, he gave a fraudulent check to the funeral home.’

Santos told the church that his family could not afford the funeral for his mother Fatima Devolder. A collection was held at the church with the priest telling CBS that the money collected was ‘significant.’ 

DailyMail.com has also discovered a GoFundMe page that Santos set up to help to pay for his mother’s funeral in 2016.

The page raised $1,850 of a $10,000 goal. On that profile, he wrote that he and his sister were not working at the time of her death because she needed 24 hour care. 

On his campaign website, it reads: ‘George’s work ethic comes from his mother, who came from nothing, but worked her way up to be the first female executive at a major financial institution. On September 11, 2001, George’s mother was in her office in the South Tower. She survived the horrific events of that day, but unfortunately passed away a few years later.’

New York state Attorney General Letitia James’ office is ‘looking into’ Santos now, DailyMail.com has learned

New York Attorney General Letitia James’ office has said that they are ‘looking into’ Santos’ finances. 

The AG’s office did not specify whether the New York Times story triggered the review, nor did it say whether a full investigation was being launched.

Santos’ lawyer, Joe Murray, did not have a response for DailyMail.com and said he has not been contacted by the New York State Attorney General’s office.

Santos previously billed himself as a ‘walking contradiction’ for being a non-white, LGBTQ Republican.

He’s used his identity to hammer Democrats for their own identity politics.

He previously claimed to DailyMail.com in August that he’s been all but excommunicated from the Big Apple’s LGBTQ crowd.

‘We’ve been scorned, exposed, I mean, I don’t even know what word to use. But we’re persona non grata in the gay community in New York City,’ Santos said at the time.

But earlier this week, his identity was put under serious scrutiny as more and more holes began to pop up in his background story.

Santos suggested he’d respond to the mounting claims within a matter of days.

‘To the people of #NY03 I have my story to tell and it will be told next week,’ the Rep.-elect wrote on Twitter.

An earlier statement by his lawyer reacting to the Times’ story called it a ‘shotgun blast of attacks’ against Santos.

Santos’ fellow future members of the New York congressional delegation were among the first to cry foul over his apparently misrepresented credentials.

Incoming Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) called Santos ‘woefully unqualified.’

Democratic Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-N.Y.) wrote on Twitter: ‘Looks like far-right Republican George Santos, who fabricated his whole political identity, may have even lied about his sexuality. I may be the only actual openly gay member of Congress in New York in the New Year.’

And progressive firebrand Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), representing parts of Queens and the Bronx, raised questions about Santos’ timeframe for his rebuttal set for next week.

‘Why do you need a full week to confirm if you live where you said you did, worked where you said you did, went to school where you said you did…?’ Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.