Genealogy websites cited by The Forward suggest that Mr. Santos’s grandparents were born in Brazil, and were not “Holocaust refugees,” as he has claimed.
Mr. Santos, a Republican from New York, says he’s the “embodiment of the American dream.” But he seems to have misrepresented a number of his career highlights.
Organizations that track extremism have expressed concern about some of the attendees at a New York Young Republican Club event in Manhattan on Saturday.