“He certainly is going to have to consider resigning,' Rep. Kevin Brady said on Rep.-elect George Santos.
have opened an investigation into Santos over his congressional campaign. Two sources confirmed to NBC News last week that prosecutors are examining Santos’ finances, including potential irregularities involving financial disclosures and loans he made to his campaign as he was running for Congress. NBC previously reported that the probe, which a spokesperson for the prosecutors declined to comment on, has not zeroed in on any one allegation of wrongdoing yet..
“No one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it,” Donnelly said.surrounding Santos but did not confirm whether it had opened an official investigation. A representative for Santos did not previously respond to NBC News' request for comment on the inquiries, and his campaign did not immediately respond to Brady's comments.
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and Rep. Tom Emmer, R-Minn., the outgoing chair of the National Republican Congressional Committee, have ignored questions from reporters about Santos and whether he should be seated. Santos has previously tweeted that he was backing McCarthy’s bid to be speaker amid a leadership fight within the House GOP, which will have only a narrow majority in the upcoming Congress.
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