Reps. Richie Torres, Dan Goldman file ethics complaint against George Santos
Two Democratic House members from New York filed an ethics complaint Tuesday against Rep. George Santos, the lying Long Island Republican who has admitted to fabricating much of his career, educational background and family history.
Reps. Ritchie Torres of the Bronx and Daniel Goodman, who represents parts of Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan, called on the House Ethics Committee to launch an investigation into Santos, who was elected Nov. 8 to rep the Empire State’s 3rd Congressional District.
“Over the past several weeks, extensive public reporting — as well as Santos’s own admissions — have shown that Mr. Santos misled voters in his District about his ethnicity, his religion, his education, and his employment and professional history, among other things,” the lawmakers wrote in a letter posted on Torres’ Twitter account.
The letter, coming three days after Santos was formally sworn in, alleges that the Republican failed “to file timely, accurate, and complete financial disclosure reports as required by law.”
Of particular interest is the more than $700,000 the freshman lawmaker loaned his House campaign despite reporting an annual salary of $55,000 as recently as 2020.
“At a minimum, it is apparent that he did not file timely disclosure reports for his most recent campaign. Moreover, his own public statements have contradicted some information included in the 2022 financial disclosure and confirmed that the 2022 financial disclosure failed to disclose other required information,” Goldman and Torres wrote.
House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) told reporters Tuesday that Santos was being dealt with “internally.”
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“Obviously there were concerns about what we had heard. We’re going to have to sit down and talk to him about it,” Scalise said during a House Republican news conference on Capitol Hill.
Santos came under fire last month when the New York Times reported that he made up several claims about his background, including that he had worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and that he had graduated from Baruch College.
He came clean to The Post in December about the deceptions, insisting: “My sins here are embellishing my resume. I’m sorry.”
On Monday, the Campaign Legal Center, a DC-based watchdog group, filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission about Santos’ campaign fundraising.
The embattled pol is also being investigated by state Attorney General Letitia James, Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly and prosecutors in the US Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District.
