It could be curtains for Rep. George Santos' time in Congress.
The Republican from New York is facing nearly two dozen federal criminal charges — and will face a vote on his expulsion from the House of Representatives on Friday.
The embattled congressman is accused by prosecutors of a number of financial misdeeds, including reimbursing himself for loans to his congressional campaign that he appears to have never actually made — in essence, stealing money from campaign donors.
The House Ethics Committee, led by Rep. Michael Guest R-Miss., corroborated many of the allegations contained in the indictments, per a report released by the committee before the Thanksgiving holiday.
Guest then quickly put forward a resolution to expel Santos from the House of Representatives. If the motion is successful, Santos would be just the sixth representative in history to be fired by his colleagues.
The freshman lawmaker's time in Congress has been marred by controversy since before he was sworn in.
The North Shore Leader, a newspaper in Santos' Long Island district, originally raised questions about claims Santos made during his campaign where he estimated his net worth at roughly $11 million. More extensive allegations were published last December in The New York Times.
Among other lies, the 35-year-old Santos falsely claimed to have been a volleyball star at Baruch College, to have worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, and...
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