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Conor Amendola

Conor Amendola

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Conor Amendola is a reporter with PolitiFact New York. He graduated with a media studies degree from St. Bonaventure University. A native of Erie, Pa., Conor is the operations director for campus radio station WSBU-FM and a graduate assistant with the Jandoli School of Communications.

amendocj22@bonaventure.edu

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Latest Fact-Checks By Conor Amendola

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Donald Trump
stated on May 22, 2026 in remarks in Suffern, New York:
“No Republican wins in Nassau.”
Mostly False
By Conor Amendola • June 12, 2026
Liz Krueger
stated on March 5, 2026 in an op-ed:
Proposed data centers in New York state would use “approximately double the energy usage of all households in the state combined.”
Mostly False
By Conor Amendola, Ryan Lombardi • May 7, 2026
Kirsten Gillibrand
stated on February 3, 2024 in a newsletter for constituents:
“Marijuana is currently classified in the same category of drugs as heroin and a more dangerous category than fentanyl or cocaine.”
True
By Conor Amendola, Brooke Johnpier • February 20, 2024
X posts
stated on May 20, 2023 in on social media:
A printer error in Nassau County, New York, turned every registered voter Democratic.
Mostly False
By Conor Amendola • June 19, 2023
Paul Tonko
stated on March 20, 2023 in a press release:
“Individuals released from incarceration are 129 times more likely to die of a drug overdose during the first two weeks after release.”
Half-True
By Conor Amendola • April 26, 2023
Charles Schumer
stated on March 10, 2023 in a news release:
Sullivan County “has the highest opioid death rate in all of New York state” yet “it’s the only county in the Hudson Valley not included in the federal High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area” program.
Mostly True
By Conor Amendola • April 4, 2023
Nicholas Langworthy
stated on February 10, 2023 in a tweet:
Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm met “with the radical green energy group behind the gas stove ban,” which “has ties to the” Chinese Communist Party.
Mostly False
By Conor Amendola, Mary McNaughton • March 9, 2023
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