{"id":84350,"date":"2023-12-01T23:40:33","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.estaql.com\/george-santos-expelled-from-house-over-criminal-charges-and-damning-ethics-report-us-news\/"},"modified":"2023-12-01T23:40:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T23:40:33","slug":"george-santos-expelled-from-house-over-criminal-charges-and-damning-ethics-report-us-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/estaql.com\/seo\/george-santos-expelled-from-house-over-criminal-charges-and-damning-ethics-report-us-news\/","title":{"rendered":"George Santos expelled from House over criminal charges and damning ethics report | US News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Republican congressman George Santos has been expelled from the US House of Representatives after a report found “overwhelming evidence” he misused campaign donations.<\/p>\n

Mr Santos was ousted 311-114 in a bipartisan vote – only the sixth time a member has been kicked out of the House since it was founded in 1789.<\/p>\n

Two-thirds of members must support the move – but a damning report by the House ethics committee that accused him of breaking federal law appeared to seal his fate.<\/p>\n

The 35-year-old led his own defence on the floor of the House and said he would “not stand by quietly”.<\/p>\n

Speaking the evening before the vote, he said: “The people of the Third District of New York<\/strong> sent me here. If they want me out, you’re going to have to go silence those people and go take the hard vote.”<\/p>\n

Mr Santos argued it would set a precedent that would make expulsions more common.<\/p>\n

Three previous cases involved disloyalty to the Union during the American Civil War, the remaining two were after politicians were convicted of federal crimes.<\/p>\n

A congressional investigation found he charged his campaign account nearly $4,000 (\u00a33,151) for spa treatments, including Botox.<\/p>\n

He also spent more than $4,000 at designer store Hermes and made “smaller purchases” from the OnlyFans site – best known for sexual content.<\/p>\n

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As the outcome of Friday’s vote became clear, Mr Santos put his coat over his shoulders, shook hands with some members who voted against his expulsion and exited the chamber.<\/p>\n

The House Speaker Mike Johnson solemnly instructed a clerk to inform New York’s governor his seat was now vacant.<\/p>\n

Mr Santos was in his first term and had been previously feted as an exciting prospect after he flipped a district from the Democrats in November 2022.<\/p>\n

But the committee launched a probe in March after reports he lied about having Jewish ancestry and his grandparents fleeing the Nazis, working at investment bank Goldman Sachs, and his college degree.<\/p>\n

It lasted eight months and found “overwhelming evidence” of law-breaking – and Mr Santos has now admitted making up much of his biography.<\/p>\n

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The US attorney’s office indicted him in May, accusing him of cheating donors, laundering campaign funds for his own personal use, and lying to Congress.<\/p>\n

It alleged he stole donors’ identities and used their credit cards to make tens of thousands in authorised charges.<\/p>\n

Mr Santos has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges and his trial is scheduled for September 2024.<\/p>\n

“Mr Santos is not a victim. He is a perpetrator of a massive fraud on his constituents and the American people,” said Susan Wild, the top Democrat on the ethics committee.<\/p>\n

The last person to be kicked out of the House was Democrat James Traficant over a criminal corruption conviction in 2002.<\/p>\n

New York state governor Kathy Hochul now has 10 days to call a special election for Mr Santos’s seat.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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