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  George Santos’s Early Life: Odd Jobs, Bad Debts and Lawsuits
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Last EditedBrentinCO  Dec 26, 2022 10:01am
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AuthorMichael Gold, Grace Ashford and Ellen Yan
News DateFriday, December 23, 2022 04:00:00 PM UTC0:0
DescriptionThe polite young customer service agent at the Dish Network call center in Queens spoke English and Portuguese, so when Brazilian immigrants had trouble with their billing or their satellite dish, their calls would be routed his way.

It was around 2012, and the man was George Santos, a son of Brazilian immigrants who, more than a decade later, would win a crucial election to Congress.

But on the campaign trail, Mr. Santos, 34, told a different story about his life: Around the same time that Dish Network records show he was working there, he was rising through the ranks at Citigroup in the first step of a lucrative Wall Street career that included a stint at Goldman Sachs.
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