He admitted to lying about his education and professional career, and now his background and finances are under investigation.
If George Santos, the newly sworn in congressman from New York, worked in business, he’d be fired, outraged voters from his district say.
Those voters have a point.
“If you lie on the application and to me in an interview, what will you do on the job? It’s a big red flag for me,” said Barbara DeMatteo, director of HR Consulting at Portnoy, Messinger, Pearl & Associates in Jericho.
Of Santos, “no one did their due diligence,” said Barbara Frankel, CEO of Coaching Initiatives in East Quogue, who has an HR background in banking and finance.
Experts in human resources, team-building and leadership told Long Island Business News that willfully lying on an application is a terminable offense.
It’s an aspect that should be “covered in the employee handbook’s general standards of…
