A United States congressman-elect who admitted embellishing significant parts of his résumé is under criminal investigation, US media reported, citing prosecutors in New York.
“The residents of Nassau County and other parts of the third district must have an honest and accountable representative in Congress. No one is above the law and if a crime was committed in this county, we will prosecute it,” she added.Santos has refused to give up his seat in Congress, telling the New York Post: “I’m not a criminal.”
He apologized for “embellishing my resume” but stretched credulity in defending his false claim that he was Jewish. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish,’” he told the Post.Santos, who beat Democrat Robert Zimmerman in a newly drawn district straddling Queens and Long Island, was at the vanguard of a Republican “wave” in New York that powered the party to a 222-212 House majority.The Times story raised questions over how he was able to lend his campaign $700,000 after claiming on a campaign finance filing in 2020 that he was making $55,000 a year.
Several Democrats have demanded that House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy call a vote to expel Santos if he does not quit.
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