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- A former roommate told New York magazine's Curbed that Santos made outlandish career claims.
- The ex roommate said Santos told him he was a successful model who was going to be in Vogue.
- He also said Santos claimed to be a journalist for a Brazilian news outlet.
Rep. George Santos rose to infamy late last year after it was reported that the newly-elected congressman had lied about key elements of his education, employment, and life story.
But according to a former roommate, Santos was making outlandish claims about his career long before then.
"He told me he was a model and that he worked at New York Fashion Week and that he met all the Victoria's Secret models and would be in Vogue magazine," Yasser Rabello, a pharmacist who lived with Santos between 2013 and 2014, said in an interview with New York magazine's Curbed.
Rabello, who now lives in Florida, recounted what it was like living with Santos, his mother, and his sister in a crowded two-bedroom apartment in Queens, New York.
He told Curbed that Santos would spend all day on his computer, browsing the web and talking to people, but claimed to be actually working.
"He said he was a reporter at Globo in Brazil," Rabello said.
(Insider contacted Globo to see if the news outlet had any record of Santos' employment, but did not receive a response.)
Santos has been caught out lying about much of his career history, among a litany of other fabrications.
He admitted to The New York Post that he had lied about working for Goldman Sachs and Citi Group, both of which had no record of his employment, confirming an earlier New York Times investigation.
Santos also fabricated elements of his educational history.
He said he attended Horace Mann, a prestigious private high school in the Bronx, but a representative of the school told CNN there was no record of his enrollment.
He also said he graduated from Baruch College, which also had no record of his enrollment, where he reportedly claimed to have been a "star" college volleyball player.
Santos has also been accused of lying about his mother being present at 9/11, being Jewish, and revelations about his dressing up in drag, among other falsehoods.