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politician and former member of the U.S. Congress representing New York's 3rd district

George Anthony Devolder Santos (born July 22, 1988) is an American former politician from the state of New York. A member of the Republican Party, Santos was elected in 2022 to represent New York's 3rd congressional district, which covers part of northern Long Island and northeast Queens, after having unsuccessfully contested the seat two years earlier. Six weeks after he was elected, The New York Times and other news outlets reported that most of Santos' autobiographical claims appear to be fabricated, including claims about his ancestry, education, employment, charity work, and property ownership. He claimed that his mother's parents were Ukrainian Jews who fled from the Holocaust to Brazil, yet records obtained by several sources showed that his mother's parents were born in Brazil and none of her ancestors were Ukrainian or Jewish. There have been several judgments against Santos in eviction and personal debt cases in the United States, and he has confessed to check fraud charges (which he now denies) in Brazil. Seven weeks after he was elected, Santos admitted to lying about his educational and employment history. On December 1, 2023, Santos was expelled by a vote of the House. The expulsion was the sixth in the history of the House, and the first since 2002.

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Alternative Names: George Devolder-Santos • George Anthony Devolder Santos • Anthony Devolder • Kitara Ravache • George Devolder Santos

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No, I was not a drag queen in Brazil, guys. I was young and I had fun at a festival. Sue me for having a life.

Why would I want to stay here? To hell with this place.

Well guess what? Rosa Parks didn't sit in the back and neither am I going to sit in the back.

I am not a criminal. Not here, not abroad, in any jurisdiction in the world have I ever committed any crimes.

I'm not a fraud. I'm not a criminal who defrauded the entire country and made up this fictional character and ran for Congress.

The future is endless, you just never know. You can do whatever you want next, and I’m just going to do whatever I want.

I was at the Ellipse on January 6th. That was the most amazing crowd, and the president was at his full awesomeness that day, it was a front row spectacle for me.

I'm a gay married man, I am openly gay, have never had an issue with my sexual identity in the past decade, and I can tell you and assure you, I will always be an advocate for LGBTQ folks.

My grandfather fleeing Ukraine in 1920s to Belgium, and fleeing Belgium to Brazil in 1940. It's a story of survival, of tenacity, of grit, as we like to call it. My mother migrated to the United States in search of the American Dream, as I said today, I am her American Dream.

The most recent obsession from the media claiming that I am a drag Queen or "performed" as a drag Queen is categorically false. The media continues to make outrageous claims about my life while I am working to deliver results. I will not be distracted nor fazed by this.

All of us in this room can agree that when we look at slavery, it was barbaric. Fifty years from now, we’re going to look back at what we’re doing in this country and we are going to say ‘we killed babies out of the womb? We aborted our own? That is barbaric.'

I never claimed to be Jewish. I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was Jew-ish.

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