Congress Members Dan Goldman and Ritchie Torres, both frequent George Santos critics, sent a letter demanding that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (CA) and his colleagues cooperate with current investigations into the lying lawmaker.
“Investigators examining Mr. Santos’ conduct must understand the entire web of deceit, and it is therefore essential that McCarthy, Stefanik, and Conston immediately and proactively cooperate with all current and future investigations into Mr. Santos’s fraudulent conduct,” Goldman said, in a statement. “The American people have a right to know whether Republican leadership was complicit in perpetrating this fraud on the voters.
And that McCarthy, Stefanik and Conston all — to some extent — knew about Santos’ shady past, including his fake academic degrees and having worked for a company accused of running a multi-million dollar Ponzi Scheme. Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., reacts after Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., voted “present” in the House chamber as the House meets for the fourth day to elect a speaker and convene the 118th Congress in Washington, Friday, Jan. 6, 2023.
The pair of lawmakers also called on GOP House leadership to reveal publicly exactly how much they knew about Santos’ fraudulent past prior to his election. “Thanks to even more intrepid public reporting, we now know that the highest levels of Republican leadership were at least partially aware of some of the lies on which Rep. George Santos built a dishonest and disgraceful campaign to reach elected office,” Torres said. “What’s particularly troubling is that Republican leadership chose to stay silent and allow him to continue to campaign and defraud the very people he is now somehow supposed to represent.
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