As I understand it, The Long Island Leader was the first publication to blow the whistle on #GeorgeSantos.
Why other larger publications failed to identify this fraud or follow up when The Leader flagged the story can only be asnwered by each #NewsService
https://www.theleaderonline.com/single-post/endorsement-robert-zimmerman-for-us-congress-ny3
This newspaper would like to endorse a Republican for US Congress in NY3 (Oyster Bay, N Hempstead, NE Queens). But the GOP nominee - George Santos - is so bizarre, unprincipled and sketchy that we cannot. We endorse Democrat Robert Zimmerman. Santos calls himself "a contradiction” - a "gay Latino," who is "ultra-MAGA," and who vacations with his new husband at Trump's Mar-A-Lago, praising Trump as “awesome.” But he then supports extreme leftist schemes like “black reparations from white people.