Embattled New York Congress Member George Santos has been charged with federal crimes and could be hauled in front of a judge at Brooklyn’s Eastern District court as soon as Wednesday, CNN reported Tuesday afternoon.
Embattled New York Congress Member George Santos has been charged with federal crimes and could be hauled in front of a judge at Brooklyn’s Eastern District court as soon as Wednesday,The nature of the charges are unclear; charging documents remained under seal Tuesday afternoon and were not publicly accessible. A spokesperson for the Eastern District declined to comment on the matter. A spokesperson for Santos did not immediately respond to an amNewYork Metro inquiry.
The freshman Republican, who has repped eastern Queens and western Long Island after flipping the Third District from Democratic control in November, has faced a seemingly-unending slew of accusations that he fabricated his biography.inconsistencies in his stated biography, with no record he had gone to school or worked where he said he did.
It all dovetailed from there, with reports accusing Santos of violating numerous campaign finance laws, orchestrating a check fraud scheme in Brazil, lying that his mother had died on 9/11, lying about his Jewish ethnicity, organizing a phony animal charity and stealing from a fundraiser for a dying dog, participating in an ATM-skimming scheme, and sexually harassing a staffer, among other things.
Aside from the feds, he is also facing probes from the Nassau County District Attorney, the state Attorney General, and the House Ethics Committee.
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