years in brazil, where local prosecutors now want him to return to face charges related to a stolen checkbook in 2008. santos has denied any wrongdoing. he s also said to have spent time among rio s lgbtq community, as seen in these photos, reportedly of him in drag. i was not a drag queen in brazil, guys. i was young and i had fun at a festival. sue me for having a life. reporter: in the early 2010s, he was back in new york. over years, he lived in multiple locations in queens, at times with family, records indicate. but he was also subjected to multiple eviction proceedings, involving failure to pay rent. in 2014, a landlord accused santos and his family of not paying more than $5,000 in rent. they were eventually evicted. on one 2016 document, santos wrote i have been mugged as a reason he failed to get a payment in on time connected to
eviction proceedings. former roommates describe santos has someone with delusions of grandeur. and his ex-boyfriend saw it firsthand. what he looked for was fame and power. that s all he cared about. and he got it. he got the fame of the lie, and he got the power that he s in congress now. reporter: he also claimed he had worked at financial firms like citigroup and goldman sachs, later admitting he never did. in 2012, the congressman, who now identifies as gay, obtained a license to marry a woman in new york city. by 2019, public court records indicate they had divorced, just before he announced his first run for congress. i m running for congress. reporter: he lost that race in 2020, but two years later, campaigning on what he s admitted were exaggerations about his education and work history, he was elected as a republican to represent new york s newly redrawn third district. some local republicans regret supporting hip. i thought he had the qualifications, and he seemed s
On November 15, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) issued two reports, highlighting what the CFPB perceives to be forms of errors that frequently occur in tenant background.