House Dems file resolution to oust Santos

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“George Santos is a scourge to us, his constituents; he’s an embarrassment to the GOP, he’s a humiliation to long-time donors, and he’s turning the Republican Party into an international laughing stock,” the release said. “But worst of all, he’s distracting our leaders from conducting the country’s important business.”

Dozens of members of all ages from the group traveled to Washington D.C. from Roslyn Tuesday morning to call for McCarthy to oust Santos from the House. Once there, the residents fooded the hallways of the Capitol outside Santos’ ofce before joining Torres and Goldman, calling for him to be removed from ofce.

“The travesty of Santos’s presence in Congress is not politics as usual and cannot be treated as such,” the release continued. “And it leaves us, the citizens of NY-03, without meaningful representation in Congress.”

A resolution submitted by Town of North Hempstead Democratic Councilwoman Veronica Lurvey that also called for Santos’ expulsion from Congress was passed on Tuesday night by a 6-1 vote. North Hempstead Supervisor Jennifer DeSena also presented a resolution for Santos to resign, which passed unanimously during the Tuesday meeting.

Republican Councilmember David Adhami said he agreed with the general intent of the Democrat’s resolution but disagreed with its verbiage before voting no, saying there’s information included just to trigger people and it was poorly written.

DeSena motioned to amend the resolution to remove any mention of her name, saying do- ing so makes it a political and personal attack, which was voted down 4-3 along party lines. The supervisor endorsed Santos during his congressional campaign and has since changed her tune following the unearthing of Santos’ personal, professional and fnancial track record.

Recent reports revealed Santos faced theft charges after writing several bad checks in his name to dog breeders in the Pennsylvania Amish country in 2017, according to multiple reports. The York County District Attorney’s ofce classifed the case as “theft by deception” to Politico.

The nine checks Santos wrote exceeded $15,000, according to the reports. Santos’ childhood friend and personal injury lawyer, Tifany Bogosian, said Santos claimed four checkbooks went missing before writing the bounced checks, in a letter she sent to a Pennsylvania state trooper.

Bogosian told CNN she was not licensed to practice in Pennsylvania and could not represent Santos in the matter. She said she was later informed by the now-congressman that the charges were dropped.

A spokesman for the York County District Attorney’s ofce told CNN said the case against Santos was listed as “withdrawn or dismissed.” Bogosian told CNN she plans to “expose him to the fullest degree” after the congressman’s false- hoods have been revealed.

The FBI is currently investigating Santos’ role in allegedly scamming a homeless, disabled veteran out of thousands of dollars that would have been used to care for the man’s service dog.

Richard Osthof said that he met Santos, who introduced himself as Anthony Devolder, in 2016 while living in a tent on the side of a New Jersey highway.

Osthof’s service dog, Sapphire, was sufering from a life-threatening stomach tumor, treatment for which would cost $3,000, the veteran told Patch.

A veterinary technician told Osthof to use Friends of Pets United, a pet charity headed up by Santos under the Anthony Devolder alias. Osthof said he never saw any of the funds after a GoFundMe was set up and subsequently deleted once it got close to hitting the $3,000 goal.

Sapphire died in January 2017, he said.

“I went through two bouts of seriously considering suicide, but thinking about leaving her without me saved my life,” Osthof told Patch. “I loved that dog so much, I inhaled her last breaths when I had her euthanized.”

Osthof said Santos informed him that the money would not be used for Sapphire, but rather “for other dogs.”