Two New York Democrats have requested that the fair and unbiased House Ethics Committee investigate their allegations against George Santos.
Two New York Democrats have requested that Republican U.S. Representative George Santos, who was only sworn in last week and is the subject of many probes, be examined by the unbiased House Ethics Committee.
Santos is being investigated for possible violations of the Ethics in Government Act by the House Ethics Committee after two New York state representatives formally complained about him. Dan Goldman (whose district encompasses sections of Manhattan and Brooklyn) and Ritchie Torres are your elected officials (whose district retains much of the South Bronx).
Goldman said on Tuesday that “George Santos, by himself, is a total fraud” in a tweet. This House has to keep an eye on itself to ensure nothing wrong happens.
Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy administered the oath of office to Santos on Saturday. However, a separate complaint to a federal watchdog agency was submitted earlier this week, asking that the lawmaker be investigated for possible violations of campaign finance laws by the Federal Election Commission.
On Tuesday, Representatives Michael Guest (R-Miss.) and Susan Wild (R-Fla.) received a letter from Representatives Torres and Goldman, who support the Ethics in Government Act, an anti-corruption measure passed in the wake of Watergate (D-Pa.).
The letter states that Santos “has shown that Mr. Santos misleads electors in his District on his ethnicity, opinions, education, work, and professional experience,” using public material from the previous weeks and his confessions.
The letter criticizes Santos for publishing “sparse and perplexing” financial statements in 2020 and 2022.
It is “clear that [Santos] did not file timely disclosure reports for his recent campaign,” the legislators decided.
“Some public statements have contradicted certain facts provided in the 2022 financial report and verified that the 2022 financial disclosure failed to include other essential information,” Santos said in his cover letter.
Since his personal and financial details had leaked, Torres and Goldman claimed, “Mr. Santos has failed to respect the integrity required of members of the House of Representatives.” Please look into this to determine how widespread these violations are so you can take corrective measures.
Torres tweeted on Tuesday that Santos “must be held responsible for deceiving both Congress and the public.”
Freshman Nick LaLota, a Republican from Long Island, has also asked for a “full probe” into the allegations against Santos to be conducted by the House Ethics Committee. As of today, it has been a month since the Lakota people made their announcement. As reported by the New York Times last week, senior federal prosecutor Goldman claims that the planned rule changes for the Agency of Congressional Ethics will “destroy” the office “just in time to preserve their favorite crook, George Santos.” These alterations were proposed only last week by other Republicans.
Santos hailed the new regulations as “excellent” in an interview with Insider published on Tuesday.
Although they were due on May 15, financial disclosure documents for Santos’ campaign were filed in September. Santos admitted to “embellishing” his resume. The suspicions of fraud against Santos, the son of Brazilian immigrants, have been revived since he is suspected of using counterfeit checks to do business in locations other than Rio de Janeiro.
To bring attention to the $705,000 that Santos reportedly donated to his campaign before the midterm elections, the non-profit Campaign Legal Center in Washington, D.C., filed a new complaint on Monday. Using the consulting firm he founded in 2021, Devolder, LLC, Santos allegedly perpetrated a “straw donor” scheme by falsifying the origin of donations.
Santos is accused of fraud about an additional 37 incidents of over-reporting expenditures totaling $199.999 (the complaint is seeking damages of $200). Now is as good a moment to detail the purchase’s history, justification, and cost. Helicopter services, ridesharing fees, restaurant tabs, airline and Amtrak tickets, and bogus office supply purchases were all listed as costs on the paperwork.