In a brightly lit diner in Great Neck, Long Island, a couple pondered the mystery of the area’s fresh-faced new congressman.
“It’s ridiculous,” said Keith Greenberg, 65. His wife Patricia nodded: “We don’t know what’s true about him and what’s not,” she said.
George Santos, the bespectacled young politician who won the district in November, helped Republicans claim the House of Representatives by a wafer-thin margin.
His fascinating and inspiring life story contained something for everyone. He was “a proud American Jew”, the grandson of Holocaust refugees who settled in Brazil, but he had been raised Catholic by Brazilian immigrant parents in New York. There he did well at school, won a volleyball scholarship to Baruch College in Manhattan and graduated near the top of
