A vetting firm is banking on the scandal over serial-lying Rep. George Santos to drum up business, warning potential clients they don’t wish to get “Santos’d.”
SRA Screening — a Manhattan-based background-check firm that performs criminal, court, motorcars and credit investigations, mostly for personal firms — is launching a recent social-media ad campaign saying, “Don’t Get SANTOS’D. Call SRA Screening Before You Hire.”
“Santos is the gift that keeps on giving,” said John Sherman of SRA. “It’s been a remarkable story.
“I know the way easily something just like the Santos scandal may be avoided,” he said. “We’d have known in minutes that Santos was a fraud.”
Sherman said it’s difficult for screening firms to vet the background of a candidate without the person’s consent, a situation that needs to be modified.
“The constituent is the employer. That’s who the politicians work for. If people wish to run a background check, they need to have the ability to run a background check,” he said.
He said he’s willing to run some free background checks on members of Congress or candidates running for Congress to stop one other Santos situations.
Santos admitted during a Post interview in December that he fabricated his resume — including when he said he earned a level from Baruch College, worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, owned 13 properties and had strong ties to Jewish culture.
“I said I used to be ‘Jew-ish,’ ” Santos famously responded The Post.
Nassau County Republican Party Chairman Joseph Cairo has acknowledged that the GOP didn’t adequately vet Santos’ background, while also calling for his resignation.
Santos is under investigation by the House Ethics Committee over his fabrications.
Federal, state and county probes are also evaluating whether he violated campaign finance law — with investigators particularly taking a look at greater than $700,000 initially listed in documents as personal loans to his campaign.
Gov. Kathy Hochul, while in DC last week, joined the bipartisan chorus of elected officials urging Santos to resign. She didn’t invite Santos to a gathering she held with the NY congressional delegation.
Meanwhile Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, the 2012 Republican presidential candidate, told Santos he “doesn’t belong here” during an exchange within the House chamber before President Biden delivered his State of the Union address last week.
