Wall Street Journal: George Santos Was Just Elected to Congress. He Faces Scrutiny Over His Résumé.

Democrats called for an investigation into apparent discrepancies in the biography of George Santos, a Republican elected last month to represent part of Long Island, N.Y., in the House of Representatives, with some saying he shouldn’t be seated when the new Congress is sworn in next month.

Mr. Santos, 34 years old, said during the campaign that he graduated from Baruch College in Manhattan and worked at financial-service firms including Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and Citigroup Inc. before making an earlier bid for Congress in 2020. A Baruch College spokesperson found no match for a student with Mr. Santos’s name and graduation date. Representatives of Citigroup and Goldman said they had no record of his employment there. …

On Tuesday, fellow New York Rep.-elect Dan Goldman, a Democrat and former federal prosecutor who was counsel to the impeachment proceedings against former President Donald Trump, called on the FBI to investigate possible campaign lies and false statements in disclosure filings.

One outside watchdog group also raised concerns about a spike in Mr. Santos’s finances. At the time of his 2020 campaign, Mr. Santos disclosed no major assets, according to a filing with the House Clerk, and listed a commission bonus from LinkBridge Investors as the only compensation over $5,000.

In September of 2022, his disclosure filing said he was the managing principal of the Devolder Organization, which is described as a consulting firm that incorporates one of Mr. Santos’s family names, and was valued at between $1 million and $5 million. He also declared an apartment in Rio de Janeiro worth up to $1 million and checking and savings accounts totaling at least $1.1 million, which weren’t listed in 2020.

Mr. Santos listed at least $3.5 million of income earned from the firm in 2021 and 2022.

“When you have somebody who had almost no assets and now suddenly has millions—the question is, who does he owe allegiance to?” said Susan Lerner, executive director of the government-watchdog group Common Cause New York.