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Respond to @BettyBowers high school equivalency diploma , Santos apparently spent time in Brazil. In 2008, Santos, then age 19, stole a checkbook from a man in Brazil who was being cared for by Santos's mother, a nurse. Santos wrote fraudulent checks to make purchases, confessed to the crime two years later, and was subsequently charged with check fraud . He did not respond to court summons; Brazilian authorities told the Times that the case remained unresolved . [1] Santos claimed to have graduated from Baruch College in 2010, earning a bachelor's degree in finance and economics, but the school has no record of this. [1] His claimed stint at Baruch overlapped with his time in Brazil . [1] Santos also claimed to have received a Master of Business Administration (MBA) degree from New York University , but NYU has no record of his attendance. [7] said that he worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs , but neither company has any record of him doing so . Santos claimed to be an "assistant asset manager" at Citi, but the company sold its asset management division in 2005. [1] He also claimed to have worked for MetGlobal and LinkBridge Investors. [8] In 2021, Santos said that he and his family owned 13 properties in New York that they rented out, but no such properties are listed on his campaign's financial disclosure forms or in public records. [1] [1] He claimed that the group was a tax-exempt charity, but the Internal Revenue Service had no record that the group was registered as a charity. A 2017 fundraiser event held by the group reportedly never gave any proceeds to its intended recipient. [1] [1] On financial disclosure forms, Santos called Devolder a " capital introduction consulting" firm. [1] Although based in New York, the company was registered in Florida, where it was dissolved in 2022 for failing to file annual reports. [1] During his 2022 campaign for Congress, Santos lent his campaign more than $700,000, and reported receiving a salary of $750,000 and dividends of between $1 million and $5 million from Devolder, even though he also listed the company's estimated value as in the same range. [1] Despite the claims about the company's size, Santos's financial disclosure forms did not list any clients using the company's services; three experts in election law interviewed by the Times said that this omission "could be problematic if such clients exist". [1] In a WNYC interview, Santos claimed that one of his companies had "lost four employees" in the 2016 massacre at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando . None of the 49 victims slain in the attack appear to have a connection to any of the companies named in Santos's biography. [1] He has described himself at various points as a nonobservant Jew and as a Catholic. [1] The Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA) reported in December 2022 that regarding Santos's Jewish background, "there's little to suggest truth beyond his own past comments"; while Santos has said that he shares his "mother's Jewish background beliefs", the JTA reported that his mother's online obituary had no reference to "any Jewish background", and that his mother's first name and surname, Fatima Devolder, commonly have Catholic origins.Donald Trump .
