18 Year-Old Who Fell In Love with George Santos Says He Lied To Him Too

Savas Abadsidis January 2, 2023

Pedro Vilarva was 18 when George Santos, then 26, swept him off his feet back in 2014. But Vilarva says Santos lied to him back then too.

The future congressman-elect was married to a woman at the time.

“He used to say he would get money from Citigroup, he was an investor,” Vilarva told The New York Times of his 2014 romance with Santos. “One day it’s one thing, one day it’s another thing. He never ever actually went to work.”

Vilarva said Santos once gave him tickets to Hawaii that did not exist—and then he found out he was wanted on theft charges in Brazil.

“I woke up in the morning, and I packed my stuff all in trash bags, and I called my father and I left,” he said.

The Daily Beast:

This anecdote might be shocking except that Santos—who will be sworn into Congress on Tuesday—has already admitted to an astounding pile of lies about his background from his work history to his education to his mother’s death.
The Daily Beast uncovered that the New York Republican, who often remarked that he is openly gay on the campaign trail, officially ended a secret seven-year marriage to a woman in 2019.
But Santos’ outrageously false remarks about being “Jew-ish,” working for Goldman Sachs, and owning 18 properties are the least of his headaches.
The state attorney general is looking into the whoppers he put on official forms and even some Republicans are suggesting he should resign—although others seem happy to have his vote in the House.

Meanwhile many are saying that Santos will have to resign.

NBC News:

Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, said Sunday that Rep.-elect George Santos, R-N.Y., should consider resigning after he admitted that he had fabricated and “embellished” several claims about his background involving his education and work history.
Santos, who made LGBTQ political history when he won the race in New York’s 3rd Congressional District in November, is set to be sworn in Tuesday when the new Congress begins. Despite increasing calls by Democrats and some GOP officials for Santos to resign or not be sworn in, the House Republican leadership has remained silent.
Brady, who is retiring from Congress, said an interview on “Fox News Sunday” that Santos would need to “take some huge steps” to regain public trust.
“This is troubling in so many ways. Certainly, he’s lied repeatedly,” Brady said. “He certainly is going to have to consider resigning.”

However, Brady said, Santos could redeem himself by owning up to his missteps.
“We’re a country of second chances,” Brady said. “And when you own up to this, then do what it takes to earn respect and trust again, you know, we’re willing to do that. So I’m hopeful, you know, he chooses the right path.”
Brady said a decision about whether Santos steps down is one “to be made between he and the voters who elected him.”
The New York Times published a bombshell investigation last month that said it was unable to substantiate many of Santos’ alleged qualifications, such as that he had worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup and had graduated from Baruch College.
Federal prosecutors in New York have opened an investigation into Santos over his congressional campaign. Two sources confirmed last week that prosecutors are examining Santos’ finances, including potential irregularities involving financial disclosures and loans he made to his campaign as he was running for Congress. NBC News previously reported that the probe, which a spokesperson for the prosecutors declined to comment on, has not zeroed in on any one allegation yet.