Ethics committee to probe Santos Will investigate parts of

BY ROBERT PELAEZ

The House Ethics Committee launched a formal investigation into Republican Rep. George Santos last week and will scrutinize his most recent congressional campaign, ofcials announced.

The committee said in a statement they unanimously voted to establish a subcommittee tasked with investigating aspects of Santos’ most recent bid for the House. The committee will determine if the embattled representative failed to properly disclose information and statements to Congress, engaged in sexual misconduct with someone seeking employment in his D.C. ofce and violated potential federal confict of interest laws.

Santos’ ofcial congressional Twitter account said the newly elected representative “is fully cooperating” in the investigation, but the congressman would not comment on the matter. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy last month anticipated the investigation would be launched into Santos and said he expected a myriad of questions surrounding him to be answered.

The ethics probe follows federal

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and local resolutions calling for Santos to be ousted from his position in Washington. Democratic U.S. Reps. Ritchie Torres, Dan Goldman, Robert Garcia, Becca Balint and Eric Sorensen submitted a resolution to expel Santos from serving in Congress last month.

“Enough is enough: My colleagues and I are introducing legislation to expel George Santos from the United States Congress,” Torres previously tweeted. “If Kevin McCarthy refuses to hold George Santos accountable, then we will.”

Torres and Goldman, both New York Democrats, also fled a complaint against Santoswith the House Ethics Committee before the expulsion resolution for allegedly violating the Ethics in Government Act, saying the Republican must be held accountable for deceiving voters and Congress.

The Ethics in Government Act, offcials said, was created to “preserve and promote the integrity of public offcials and institutions,” which Torres and Goldman said they believe Santos has failed to adhere to. The two described fnancial reports submitted in 2020 and 2022 as “sparse and per-

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