incoming gop congressman george santos is under fire for discrepancies in his resume. his biography lifted college at new york university, earning degrees in finance and economics. however, neither nyu had any record of his attending. he claimed he ran his own charity called friends of pets united. but no such organization exists in the irs s searchable database. now, cnn has discovered yet another discrepancies in santos s biography. this one regarding claims his grandparents fled the holocaust. cnn s jessica dean has more. reporter: incoming congressman george santos injuring the growing scrutiny surrounding many apparent discrepancies in his biography tweeting, i have my story to tell, and it will be told next week.
find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduated that year. there s also little evidence that animal rescue group friends of pets united, a tax exempt organization, the irs could find no record of a registered charity with that name. that is just the beginning of the bs when it comes to congressman santos. here s bring in house of way too early , jonathan lemire, donna here with us and tim miller. jonathan, tell me, you want to give the official response, what the santos response is, by his lawyer to this story that has enveloped him over the last 48 hours. let s get that response on the record from you, and then we ll go from there. well, john heilemann, first of all, i ll say i now have new questions about your own resume,
a firestorm erupting over a newly elected republican congressman who reportedly lied about his resume, and that helped him win the seat. the new york times reporting that george santos, the new representative elected from long never, never worked for citigroup or goldman sachs. he also claimed he graduated from new york s barouch college, but there s no record of him attending. what else did they question when looking through his background? has there been any response from the congressman? there has not been a response. there has been a response from his lawyer. among the other questions here that were raised in that new york times article, there s little to no evidence about the animal rescue group that santos listed on his resume, friends of
university earning degrees in finance and economics. representatives for both schools told cnn they had no record of anyone with his name ever attending. his campaign biography said santos worked at citigroup and goldman sachs. they have no record of his employment. santos claimed he founded his own charity, friends of pets united. but one of the first things i did was look for some of the filings because he was very specific about being it 501(c)3. and we weren t able to find that with the irs. reporter: there was no group of that charity group found in the database, nor among registered charities in new york and florida. cnn has asked santos for comment, but he has not responded. his attorney told cnn the new york times was attempting to, quote, smear santos with, quote, defamatory allegations. his opponent robert zimmerman said his campaign knew about some of these discrepancies. asked today by cnn whether his campaign was raising concerns