In a CBS News interview, Santos’ former roommate, Gregory Morey, said the now-Congressman told him he wanted to serve one term in Congress, because “I will be set with a pension and health care for the rest of my life.”
Sorry, George, you almost certainly will not be sponging off the government for the rest of your life. TPM points out that the Federal Employees Retirement System provides a full pension to members 62 years of age only after 5 years of service, for members 50 years or older after 20 years of service or members of any age after 25 years of service. In other words, Santos would have to be re-elected twice or find some other way to get at least three more years of service – provided he manages to complete his first term.
As for health care, that is never free for Congressmembers.
This again raises questions about Santos’ very suspicious finances, not to mention his claim to have become a very successful businessman.
Even Santos' name remains suspect. “He never went by George, he never went by Santos. I knew him as Anthony Devolder from Jackson Heights, Queens,” Morey said.
