As His Life of Fantasy Comes Into Focus, George Santos Goes to Washington

Mr. Vilarva met Mr. Santos in 2014, when he was 18 and Mr. Santos was 26. Around the same time, he said he discovered that his cellphone was missing, and believed Mr. Santos had pawned it. The betrayal prompted him to plug Mr. Santos’s name into a search engine, where he found that Mr. Santos was wanted by Brazilian police. Looking back, Mr. Vilarva said, he was young and gullible: He wanted to believe Mr. Santos’s many stories and believe in the life that they shared. The post As His Life of Fantasy Comes Into Focus, George Santos Goes to Washington appeared first on New York Times.