'The public allegations against Santos are just the tip of the iceberg,' writes Mark Chiusano
Newsday
Sorting fact from fiction for Santos was an adventure that took me as far as Brazil. After journalist Marisa Kabas found a picture there of Santos, dressed in drag at the dawn of the Obama era, the congressman told reporters that he was not a drag queen, but simply a young man who “had fun at a festival.” That was not the recollection of multiple people I spoke to in and around Niteroi, the city next to Rio where Santos lived on and off as he came of age.
The public allegations against Santos are just the tip of the iceberg. I’ve found three people on two continents to whom he raised the prospect of immigration-related marriages—to himself or others. Family members say he has run off with money from close relatives, even mooching off his grandmother. “He was trying to get any type of money for free as fast as possible,” one of his ex-roommates told me, recalling his time living with Santos in New York in the 2010s.
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