The House Ethics Committee has opened an investigation into Rep. George Santos (R-NY) that will focus on allegations of sexual misconduct and campaign finance violations—a probe that comes as the embattled freshman congressman is embroiled in a ballooning scandal surrounding these alleged lies and more:
His mother’s death: Santos said on his campaign website that his mother, Fatima Devolder, was “in the South Tower” on 9/11 and later succumbed to cancer, but she filed a green card application in 2003 stating that she had not been in the U.S. since 1999, The Forward reported—a contradiction Santos defended on Monday: “I was in the United States when my mother was here, because she had full custody of both her children,” he said, while leaving open the possibility that she could have lied on her visa application.
An early Wall Street career: Santos repeated a confession initially made to The New York Post that he embellished claims of working directly for Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, telling Morgan it was “a very stupid decision that I regret every day.”
His “Jewish” heritage: Santos reprised his claim that his maternal grandparents fled Ukraine to escape the persecution of Jewish people during World War II, despite genealogy records reviewed by The Forward that show his maternal grandparents were both born in Brazil—discrepancies “four” pending DNA tests would resolve, Santos assured Morgan, adding that he “grew up with the story” that his grandparents “...
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