MADRID, 3 Mar. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Ethics Committee of the United States House of Representatives has opened an investigation this Thursday to analyze whether the Republican congressman George Santos engaged in illegal activities during his campaign in the 2022 legislative elections, after he admitted that he had lied about aspects key to your resume.
With the committee’s unanimous vote, an investigative panel has been established to look into whether Santos “participated in illegal activities” in his November midterm campaign for the lower house, whether he failed to properly disclose his statements filed before Congress, or if there is a conflict of interest due to their relationship in a fiduciary service company, ‘The Hill’ has reported.
In addition, the congressman — who has come under pressure from the Republican Party to leave office — will be investigated over allegations of sexual misconduct by a person who sought a job in his office.
If proven guilty, Santos could receive anything from a reprimand to even being expelled from the House of Representatives, depending on the seriousness of the facts, if they are proven.
Meanwhile, the congressman himself has published a statement on the social network Twitter in which he assures that he is “fully cooperating” in the investigation by the Ethics Committee.
Santos has admitted to having fabricated details about his education, work, religion and heritage since his election as a congressman in the last mid-term legislative elections held on November 8.
More specifically, the congressman has exaggerated or outright lied about his professional and personal resume, with a false Jewish heritage linked to the Holocaust and a mother who had supposedly died in the attacks of September 11, 2001, among other lies that have come out the light.
After that, a multitude of voices within the Republican Party have called for the resignation of Santos, appealing that he has met “the highest levels of honesty and reliability” or that “it is not right to invent or lie for political interests,” according to in mid-January the Cleveland portal.
Still, a recent Newsday-Siena College poll, conducted in his New York district, showed that the vast majority of voters think Santos should resign.
