New York Rep. George Santos claimed he had been the victim of an attempted murder, and that he was mugged in broad daylight while walking down Fifth Avenue in summer 2021.
on Facebook about being targeted for having attended a party at Mar-a-Lago, though what exactly happened wasn’t clear from the social media post.
“My fiancé and I had to leave our home this evening with our four dogs,” he wrote, blaming the attack on backlash he faced for attending the New Year's Eve party. “The violence against us is real.”An NYPD spokesperson said there were no crimes reported at a Whitestone, Queens address where Santos reportedly lived with his sister, though it’s unclear if he lived at another location at the time of the incident.
Suffolk County Police were looking into whether an incident like this or any other crimes were reported at an address in Huntington, whereduring the campaign. That rental was paid for through Santos’ federal campaign funds, FEC records show, though those payments didn’t begin until 2022. An NYPD spokesperson was researching whether or not there was a record of that mugging given Santos’ description of events, but could not immediately provide a definitive answer.
Gothamist reviewed Santos' Facebook and Twitter posts from the summer of 2021 and couldn’t find any mention of the supposed mugging, though he mentioned several other violent incidents, railed about public safety, and evenGeorge Santos has faced backlash and probes for telling a series of exaggerations, embellishments, and outright lies ahead of his electoral win last November.
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