The New York congressman claims that Fatima Devolder was a devout GOP donor and a financial executive who escaped from the South Tower on 9/11. But, as Mark Chiusano puts it in an excerpt from his new book ‘The Fabulist,’ “There is good reason to believe that none of this is true.
The two were very close, and family members remember her spoiling him as a child. “She was always making up excuses for what he did,” one relative said. Theirs was a boisterous home, a Queens basement apartment that sometimes hosted rats, but also happiness. Holidays were a big deal, featuring fried food from Fatima’s native Brazil. The TV played constantly, a very American condition.
She had to figure out how to communicate in a foreign tongue: she spoke Portuguese, Spanish, and “Little English,” she claimed to federal officials. A 1989 form letter from someone who employed her as a housekeeper affirmed that she was a person of “good moral character and sound judgment.” Between 1990 and 1996 she also worked for Charles Goodman of the Upper West Side.
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