The House Ethics Committee will not recommend a specific course of action against lying Long Island Rep. George Santos when it issues its report on several allegations against the Republican congressman, the panel’s chairman revealed Wednesday.
“We didn’t go through the longer process of coming forward and recommending sanctions because that would have taken several more months,” Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.) told reporters ahead of the document’s planned release Thursday.
Despite the lack of recommendations, Guest predicted that the report’s conclusions will lead to a renewed effort to expel Santos from the House of Representatives.
The 10-member panel has been examining the 35-year-old lawmaker from Nassau County and Queens since February.
Earlier this month, Santos survived an expulsion effort championed by six of his fellow New York House Republicans.
The president of the Ethics Committee hopes that efforts will be renewed to expel George Santos.REUTERS
The ethics panel investigation investigated 23-count allegations brought against Santos in the Eastern District of New York, as well as claims that he sexually harassed a former employee and violated federal conflict of interest laws.
“He [investigative subcommittee] has contacted approximately 40 witnesses, reviewed more than 170,000 pages of documents and authorized 37 subpoenas,” the committee announced on October 31.
Santos has pleaded not guilty to all criminal charges brought against him. He has also refused to resign from the lower house and intends to run for re-election next year.
George Santos has described the past year as a personal “hell” for him. Annabelle Gordon – CNP/MEGA
Prosecutors have accused Santos of falsifying records with the Federal Election Commission, stealing the identities of campaign donors and racking up tens of thousands of dollars on his credit cards without authorization.
In addition to the criminal charges, Santos has been embroiled in controversy for fabricating large chunks of his backstory.
In December of last year, Santos admitted to the Post that he had fabricated key claims in his biography during his last two congressional campaigns.
This included lying about his education and work experience, confessing that he “never worked directly” for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
Santos also disavowed statements on her campaign website that her mother was Jewish and that her grandparents escaped Nazi persecution during World War II, stating instead that her grandmother told stories about being Jewish and later converting to Catholicism.
“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said at the time. “I am Catholic. Since I knew that my mother’s family had a Jewish background, I said I was ‘Jewish.'”
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