The thing about Santos is that nothing about him can be trusted, from where he went to high school (not New York’s famed Horace Mann) to where he went to college (nowhere) to where he got the nearly $1 million he lent to his campaign (who knows?!?) to when his mother died (on a day other than 9/11).
All this is shocking but not surprising — a phrase that has achieved meme status in recent years for a reason: We’re living in the age of the scam.
Sam Bankman-Fried never lied about who he was, but of course he didn’t have to. The guy was born on Stanford University’s campus; he went to college at MIT; along the way he attended something called Canada/USA Mathcamp.
His whole shtick wasn’t pretending to be someone else so much as it was performing the most exaggerated version of himself: T-shirt and cargo shorts with gym socks, sleeping on…
