Mr. Santos asserted on Twitter that stones and eggs had been thrown at his home and that he had spent 4 and a half hours submitting experiences with the police and insurance coverage firms. He additionally mentioned Matt misplaced his job as a pharmacist due to the incident. The Instances couldn’t confirm that declare, and Mr. Santos’s lawyer wouldn’t present further info.
Ms. Pothos, 72, mentioned that she didn’t recall any such incident. The New York Police Division, when requested if it had experiences of violence, vandalism or disputes on the Whitestone handle for early that January, mentioned it had a report of an incident there in October 2021. It didn’t reply when requested to make clear if that was the one reported incident on the handle that 12 months.
Mr. Santos instructed Newsday in March 2022 that he had left the Whitestone residence, purportedly due to the vandalism, although he refused to share a brand new handle. However Ms. Pothos mentioned that Mr. Santos had not moved out till August and asserted that she needed to spend $17,000 to restore extreme injury left behind.
The place Mr. Santos at present lives stays unclear, partially as a result of he has provided conflicting accounts. In October, he suggested on Twitter that he nonetheless lived in Ms. Pothos’s house, citing a theft “two blocks away from my residence in Whitestone.”
Mr. Santos had additionally instructed Newsday that he would ultimately transfer to Oyster Bay, N.Y. As a substitute, he seems to have settled in a home in Huntington, a city simply outdoors his district’s boundaries. (Members of Congress are solely required to stay within the state they signify, not the district.)
On Wednesday, three neighbors mentioned that that they had seen Mr. Santos or his husband on the home in Huntington, in a hilly neighborhood filled with well-kept, middle-class homes, a few of which have been changed into leases. One man who lived throughout the road mentioned that Mr. Santos had moved in someday in August.
Neither Mr. Santos nor his husband is listed on property data for the house, and the home’s proprietor didn’t reply to a telephone name or social media messages looking for extra info.
Reporting was contributed by Nate Schweber in New York and Manuela Andreoni in Brazil; Susan C. Beachy contributed analysis.