Rep. Lying Long Islander George Santos leveraged “every aspect” of his successful 2022 House campaign for profit, according to a damning new report from the House Ethics Committee released Thursday.
An hour after the report was released, the 35-year-old announced he would not run again next year, writing on X that “my family deserves better than being under the gun from the press all the time.”
The ethics panel did not make specific recommendations on what action to take against Santos who has been charged, but it referred the evidence to the Justice Department.
The committee emphatically declared that the Republican lawmaker was “untrustworthy” and that his conduct was “publicly reprehensible, beneath the dignity of office, and has brought the House into serious disrepute.”
Santos has been under investigation by a 10-member ethics panel since February. He insisted that he would not resign from the Congress regardless of the findings against him.
US Representative George Santos (R-NY) speaks to reporters as he leaves the Capitol after a series of votes, in Washington, US, November 15, 2023. REUTERS
Earlier this month, Santos survived an impeachment effort fought by six fellow Republicans from New York. Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.), who chairs the ethics committee, predicted the report could reignite attempts to oust Santos before his term ends.
In his lengthy response to the report, Santos fumed that the Ethics committee “has gone to great lengths to discredit me and my legal team that I will not be present (my legal counsel suggested otherwise).
“It is a disgusting political scandal that shows how low our federal government has sunk,” he added. “Everyone who participated in this gross miscarriage of Justice should all be ashamed of themselves.”
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