Andrew Harnik/APRep. George Santos, R-N.Y., leaves a House GOP conference meeting on Capitol Hill on Jan. 25, 2023.After months of scandal, the House Ethics Committee announced Thursday it has opened a formal investigation intoA statement released by the panel stated an investigative subcommittee will examine whether Santos"engaged in unlawful activity" during his 2022 campaign.
The probe will also determine whether Santos violated federal conflict of interest laws and whether he"engaged in sexual misconduct" towards an individual who was seeking a job in the freshman congressman's House office. In its statement, the Ethics Committee noted that opening an investigation"does not itself indicate that any violation has occurred."
House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has said Santos will remain a member in good standing in the GOP caucus until a full investigation is complete.Santos says he plans to serve out his full two-year term. He has admitted"embellishing" his resume before winning a seat on Long Island last November, but has repeatedly denied any criminal wrongdoing.
Santos lied to voters about his education and his career, invented a fictional Jewish heritage for his family and claimed falsely that employees working for him died in the 2016 Pulse night club shooting.
America waits with bated breath. This could take longer to 'complete' the entire list than the indictments and convictions at the top of the Jan 6th Insurrection. It'd be useful to start with one quickly proven crime, get a sentence and an expulsion, then move on to other crimes.
Glad we got one over on the democrats! Fetterman is a vegetable and they knew it, so who cares?
Who gives a f? BIDEN...Top of class, marched in civil right, got arrested with Nelson Mandella...on and on. He learned from the best!
They should ask Santos, I’m sure he’ll tell the truth.
Again, Republican’s nonsense costing taxpayers millions!
RussianCollusionHoax/coup continues.
It's ok, Kevin will probably make an announcement soon that he's appointing Rep. Santos as the new Co-Co-Chair of the House Ethics Committee to ensure the investigation of Rep. Santos is done transparently & with great integrity. 🙄
Let’s hope he’s sitting in jail when the movie on his corrupt life comes out.
Sure he may have broken a few rules but that's nothing compared to his discovery of the Higgs boson
Cool! Now do literally every other politician for lying. Oops! They won't do that huh?
Incredible that it can take so long to censure an obvious liar like him.
Leave George alone, goddammit.
Do republicans ever do any work 4 their constituents? How cld they possibly w/all the self-serving tv, etc. right-wing media appearances social media insulting Dems reporting right-wing media rumors hoaxes & lies. Doesn’t leave any time apparently cause they get nothing.
They’ll spend a long time investigating and do a big whopping nothing about it. We know how it goes. 😒
Let's just say he did. Nobody would believe him if he tries to deny it anyway.
This would be a really great time to revisit ItsBeenAMin's episode on Santos and how he fits into a long history of politicians 'manifesting' their identities:
Do AndyOgles next
I can’t WAIT for the NetFlix limited series on this trog.
Remind me, does House Ethics Committee have any powers of enforcement?
Democrats/Republicans/ Independents all think this guy is a douche. He gotta go
Narrator: He did.
Well, duh.
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