Rep.-elect George Santos (R-N.Y.) is starting to emerge from days of silence following explosive reports in The New York Times and elsewhere detailing key elements of his background he apparently misrepresented. In various interviews, Santos has admitted to “embellishing” his resume. He told the New York Post that he “didn’t graduate from any institution of higher learning” and that it was “poor choice of words” to previously say he worked for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs. He worked for a company called LinkBridge, he said, which did business with both other companies and helped make “capital introductions” through “limited partnerships.” But...