Cleveland.com: Ohio Senate Candidate Bernie Moreno’s Background Faces National Scrutiny In New York Times

Columbus, OH – New reporting from Cleveland.com further “scrutiniz[es]” the phony “riches-to-rags-to-riches” tale Bernie Moreno tells on the campaign trail after the New York Times exposed Moreno’s “bootstraps story” as a “calculated process of self-creation” – the latest in a series of lies “dogg[ing]” his campaign that shows Ohioans they can’t trust Moreno.

Cleveland.com: Ohio Senate candidate Bernie Moreno’s background faces national scrutiny in New York Times
Andrew J. Tobias
May 13, 2024

• A new New York Times article offers further details on Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bernie Moreno’s biography while scrutinizing the story he’s told publicly about his family’s decision to move to the United States.

• As previously reported by cleveland.com and The Plain Dealer, Moreno comes from a wealthy and politically connected family in Bogota and moved to the United States when he was a child. He has described to voters while campaigning how his family “left everything” in Colombia to live in a two-bedroom apartment in Florida.

• The New York Times story casts the version of his life Moreno has told while campaigning, which can give the impression of a rags-to-riches immigrant story, as “not as tidy” as he portrays it, and the type of “calculated process of self-creation” that all candidates undergo when deciding how they will present their lives to voters.

• The New York Times article describes how Moreno’s family initially lived in a three-bedroom condo in a high-rise building on the beach after moving from Colombia to South Florida in 1971. But a couple months later, they moved to a four-bedroom house, using money loaned to them by Moreno’s step-grandfather on his mother’s side.

• Moreno’s father, Bernardo Moreno Sr., held a high-ranking position in the Colombian government roughly equivalent to the U.S. Secretary of Health.

SEE ALSO: Moreno’s “String of Inconsistencies” Grows with Phony “Rags-To-Riches” Tale; WHAT THEY’RE SAYING: Bernie Moreno “Under Fire” For Phony “Riches-To-Rags-To-Riches” Story That “Isn’t What He Says”; NEW: NYT Report Details Bernie Moreno’s Phony “Rags-To-Riches Tale” & Lies About “Bootstraps Story” As Part Of “Calculated Process of Self-Creation”