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Rep.-elect George Santos will take his seat in Congress on Tuesday facing a renewed fraud investigation by Brazilian authorities.
A spokesperson for the Rio de Janeiro prosecutors office told The New York Times that authorities will be reviving a 2008 fraud case, which they dropped more than a decade ago after failing to locate him.
Now that Santos' whereabouts are known, they are set to contact the US Justice Department and seek his formal response to allegations, the outlet reported.
The Times, citing court records, said that the fraud case stems from a visit Santos made to a clothing store in Niterói, a city outside of Rio de Janeiro, where he allegedly paid for $700 of goods using a stolen checkbook, using a fake name.
Prosecutors in Brazil charged Santos with embezzlement over a decade ago, but the case was archived in 2013 because Santos could not be...
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