New York politician who admitted making up large much of his life story is facing calls for him to quit, even from within his own party
from the party’s precariously thin majority to win the gavel, and appears willing to embrace a self-confessed liar to get there.
last month that first questioned large chunks of the résumé he presented to voters to win a narrow victory for Republicans in a usually reliable Democratic district. The Times said campaign records showed Santos spent more than $40,000 on air travel alone, a staggering amount that outpaced other congressional candidates and even leading members of Congress., including an interview with Santos’s former boyfriend Pedro Vilarva, who said they had an affair in 2015. Santos, according to Vilarva, paid few of their bills, surprised him with tickets to Hawaii that turned out not to exist, and then stole and pawned his cellphone.
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