Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) didn’t mince phrases on Friday following his expulsion from Congress for allegedly misusing marketing campaign funds.
“Why would I wish to keep right here?” Santos advised reporters following his expulsion in a 311 to 114 vote.
“To hell with this place,” he added.
Santos was expelled following a Home Ethics Committee investigation that uncovered he had allegedly spent hundreds of {dollars} of marketing campaign funds on private bills, together with Botox, designer garments, magnificence merchandise and even paying down his personal private bank card debt.
“He blatantly stole from his marketing campaign,” the report stated.
Santos can also be going through federal prices for allegedly stealing the identities of donors to his marketing campaign and utilizing their bank cards to cost hundreds of {dollars} for his bills.
A kind of alleged victims is Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), who sent an email to House Republicans simply earlier than the expulsion vote.
“Earlier this yr I realized that the Santos marketing campaign had charged my private bank card ― and the non-public card of my Mom ― for contribution quantities that exceeded FEC limits,” Miller wrote. “Neither my Mom nor I authorized these prices or had been conscious of them. We have now spent hundreds of {dollars} in authorized charges within the ensuing comply with up.”
Santos is a serial liar who as soon as falsely claimed his mom had died within the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. She lived in Brazil on the time of the assault and died in 2016.
Santos is the sixth Home member to be expelled and the primary Republican Home member.
