House Democrats file ethics complaint against GOP Rep. George Santos of New York

Two New York Democratic congressmen connected Tuesday filed a House Ethics Committee ailment against Rep. George Santos, the freshman Republican from New York who precocious was recovered to person lied astir and embellished details connected his resume.

Democratic Reps. Ritchie Torres and Dan Goldman, successful a six-page letter, called connected the sheet to probe Santos for perchance violating the Ethics successful Government Act "by failing to record timely, close and implicit fiscal disclosure reports arsenic required by law."

The letter, which the lawmakers hand-delivered to Santos' bureau connected Capitol Hill, called the fiscal disclosure reports filed for his 2020 and 2022 campaigns "sparse and perplexing."

"At a minimum, it is evident that helium did not record timely disclosure reports for his astir caller
campaign," Torres and Goldman wrote.

"Moreover, his ain nationalist statements person contradicted immoderate accusation included successful
the 2022 fiscal disclosure and confirmed that the 2022 fiscal disclosure failed to disclose
other required information," the missive said.

The ailment to the Ethics sheet was filed a time aft the Campaign Legal Center, a nonpartisan watchdog group, filed a ailment against Santos with the Federal Election Commission for allegedly violating galore run concern laws.

The missive Tuesday by the 2 Democratic lawmakers noted that media reports and Santos' "own admissions" successful caller weeks had shown that helium "misled voters successful his District astir ethnicity, his religion, his education, and his employment and nonrecreational history, among different things."

In a tweet astir the complaint, Torres wrote, "Santos indispensable beryllium held accountable for defrauding some Congress and the public."

A spokeswoman for Santos, who represents a territory that covers parts of Queens and Long Island, N.Y., did not instrumentality a petition for comment.

The Hill reported that successful effect to the complain, Santos said, "They're escaped to bash immoderate they privation to do."

"I person done thing unethical," Santos said, according to The Hill.

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