Good morning Playbookers. I'm Kara Tabor. It's Tuesday, and a New York Republican appears to not be who he says he is.

This is your Politico Playbook Daily Briefing.

The big story we're looking at today is about New York Congressman-elect George Santos,

who knew reporting shows may have misrepresented major details about his background and career.

Playbook editor Mike DeBonis and playbook co-author, Ryan Liza, Break It Down.

Thank you. Mike DeBonez and Playbook co-author Ryan Liza, Break It Down.

Hey, it's Playbook editor, Mike DeBonis.

I'm here with playbook author, Ryan Liza, and we are just agog about this wild story in the New York Times out of Long Island.

Ryan, what is the story all about?

My home area there. Basically,

you have a Republican candidate who wasn't vetted either by the Republicans or all that much by the Democrats, although we'll get to that second, who won by eight points. As a lot of listeners

know, New York crime was a major issue, and New York is one of the

states where Republicans did very well in the midterms.

And this guy came out of nowhere.

Well, I shouldn't say came out of nowhere.

He was a sort of afterthought candidate in 2020 against Tom Swazi.

Now it turns out that a good chunk of his biography was fraudulent, including where he went to school

and the alleged Wall Street firms he worked for all seems to be bunk. And the Times went down

to Brazil where he's from and found out that he's the subject of a criminal case there.

And a really kind of shocking detail in the piece is that he said

that his company employed four people who were killed in the Pulse nightclub mass shooting in Orlando.

That also appears to be fake.

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