Republican congressman George Santos reportedly fabricated parts of résumé

The incoming congressman's biography is now being re-examined as opponent claims Santos was running a scam against the voters'

A news report on Monday questioned whether the career resume of the incoming Republican congressman George Santos - who was elected last month to serve a typically Democrat suburban district north-east of New York City - may be largely fictional.

According to an analysis by the New York Times, the biographical sketch offered by the 34-year-old, first-generation Brazilian-American, who ran as a member of a new generation of Republican leadership" as the full embodiment of the American dream", may not have worked at Citigroup or Goldman Sachs, graduated from a New York college, or run a pet rescue charity, as he has claimed.