Yep, when reporters checked up on his claimed credentials, they came up FALSE!!
Representatives for New York University and Baruch College confirmed to ABC News that they have no record of Santos attending their institutions.
However, the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) website states he received degrees from NYU and Baruch. His campaign website also said he graduated from Baruch.
The same biography on the NRCC site claimed that Santos worked for companies such as Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. But a spokesperson for Goldman Sachs told ABC News that they have no record of Santos ever being employed there. Citigroup has not returned ABC's request for comment.
According to an archived version of his campaign website, Santos previously said he ran a 501(c)(3) charity called Friends of Pets United, but a search on the IRS' website did not find a listing for a charity under that name.
The mention of Friends of Pets United appears to have been removed from Santos' campaign website.
ABC here is just retracing the questions raised by the NY Times; all the institutions also told the Times they had no record of Santos' claims.
Also there are also problems with Santos' financial disclosure forms. He claims to have earned big money at his "family firm," where he oversaw $80 million in client assets as the managing principal. However, disclosure rules require disclosure of the major clients and Santos failed to name a single client.
