Misrepresenting Qualifications

Deceitfully implied he was a married father of three children by sharing images and video footage of him posing and interacting with them around a dinner table on his campaign website and social media pages when in fact he is not married and has no children

Lied about receiving degrees from North Carolina Central University, Duke University Divinity School and Hood Theological Seminary when in fact he didn't receive a degree from any of them

Lied about being a "former member of law enforcement" who had a specialization in "international sex crimes" when in fact he was a volunteer reserve deputy who had zero involvement in sex trafficking cases and only lasted two years because he had made no progress in his field training and rarely showed up to required meetings

Lied to a judge about working for Goldman Sachs during a bail hearing for a friend who was accused of fraud

Lied about earning a second bachelors degree in economics from Middle Tennessee State while also publicly asserting "I'm an economist" on numerous occasions

Lied about earning degrees in economics and finance from Baruch College and New York University when in fact he hadn't earned any college degree at all

Lied about working for Goldman Sachs and also Citigroup as an "associate asset manager" of which both companies confirmed they had no information of him ever working for them

Falsely claimed he was a combat veteran who served under "tough" conditions in the Afghanistan War, but military records show he never actually deployed to Afghanistan and instead spent six months loading planes on a military base in Qatar over 1,000 miles away from the fighting

Impersonated a city compliance officer on at least two occasions so he could order people to remove campaign signs his opponent had displayed at local businesses while also portraying himself as a fierce defender of law and order

Claimed he had a paid position on Senator Marco Rubio's 2016 presidential campaign when in fact he had only been an unpaid volunteer

Falsely claimed he earned a business degree from “Forbco Management school” which was actually a certificate he got from a "management course he took when he worked for Sizzler, kind of like Hamburger University at McDonald’s" according to a GOP spokesperson

Rebuffed police commands to exit her vehicle and refused to submit to a breathalyzer and field sobriety test after getting pulled over for speeding and suspicion of driving under the influence and lied about being a "reserve cop" to the arresting officer in an attempt to get out of trouble

Possessed 11,000 business cards that falsely said he was a state rep when he was in fact a private citizen