A New York Republican newly elected to Congress appears to have fabricated key parts of his education and employment history. That’s according to an investigation by The New York Times, which found Congressmember-elect George Santos lied when he told voters he’d worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. The IRS says an animal rescue group Santos claims to have led called Friends of Pets United did not file any records indicating it had tax-exempt status, as Santos claimed. The Times also found Santos faced criminal charges for check fraud in Brazil at a time when he’d claimed to be attending classes at Baruch College — which has no enrollment records for Santos. And Santos falsely claimed that his company “lost four employees” at the Pulse nightclub shooting in Orlando in June 2016. In November, Santos made history as the first openly gay Republican to win a House seat as a nonincumbent, representing a district in Long Island and Queens that previously favored Democrats. House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy has yet to comment on the Times’s investigation. Many House Democrats are calling on McCarthy to block Santos from being seated when the 118th Congress is sworn in next month.