Ben Jacobs

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Ben Jacobs @Bencjacobs

The closest at this level off the top of my head was John Stonehouse, a British MP who faked his own death in the 1970s, who was both a fraudster and a Czech spy. But even that is very different — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 22, 2022 Hibernated

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Ben Jacobs @Bencjacobs

I've been thinking about this for days. There are various people with aspects of this but there's no clean parallel I can think of — PolitiTweet.org

Is there any precedent at all to this George Santos situation? Has Congress ever had someone with so many remarkable biographical holes?

Posted Dec. 22, 2022 Hibernated

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Ben Jacobs @Bencjacobs

@alexanderburns Stonehouse perpetrated all the fraud after being elected to Parliament. It's more of a traditional greed and grandiosity thing than anything else. Santos is a pure Talented Mr Ripley type. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 22, 2022 Hibernated