Mr. Rijo says the hourly rate for agents is at most $15 an hour, plus a dollar or two for foreign language expertise. Mr. Santos’s employment at Dish is also reported by local news site Patch.
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At the same time, friends recall, Mr. Santos was living modestly in Queens, occasionally taking on more roommates to earn rent. Gregory Morey-Parker was one of those roommates, briefly. From the very beginning, he said, there were inconsistencies between the way Mr. Santos talked about himself and the life he lived. Mr. Santos brags about his family’s wealth and business success – even a home in Nantucket – which Mr. Morey-Parker says seems the opposite of normal family life.
“You’re sitting here bragging about all the money you make,” Mr. Morey-Parker said. “Then why is your mother a housekeeper?”
Mr. Peter Hamilton met Mr. Santos in early 2014, he said. He recalled how Mr. Santos, who claimed to be an NYU graduate, failed to recognize the name of the business school he said he attended. However, Mr. Hamilton found him charismatic and intelligent. “He seemed to know what to say and how to say it to people,” Mr. Hamilton recalled in an interview.
He didn’t hesitate when Mr. Santos said he needed to borrow several thousand dollars to move in with his boyfriend and loaned him the money in September 2014, court documents show. Mr. Hamilton said shortly after that, Mr. Santos stopped responding to his texts and calls.
In the months before the loan, Mr. Santos and his family were involved in an eviction dispute in Jackson Heights, Queens, court records show. In June 2014, their landlord accused Mr. Santos, his mother and sister of three months’ unpaid rent. The parties reached an agreement, but the family was evicted in August after the landlord said they had failed to pay on time, court records show.
Mr. Hamilton filed a lawsuit in small claims court in Queens seeking repayment in 2015. In October of that year, Mr. Santos responded, saying the money had been repaid and that it was not a loan. but a favor. However, a judge agreed with Mr. Hamilton and made a judgment of $5,000 plus interest.
