Santos to be faraway from U.S. Congress if he broke marketing campaign finance legal guidelines -Comer

WASHINGTON, Jan 15 (Reuters) – U.S. Consultant George Santos, who lied about a lot of his resume and life story, shall be faraway from Congress if discovered to have damaged marketing campaign finance legal guidelines, fellow Republican and Home Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer stated on Sunday.

“He is a nasty man,” Comer stated on CNN’s “State of the Union” program. “It is less than me or every other member of Congress to find out whether or not he could be kicked out for mendacity. Now, if he broke marketing campaign finance legal guidelines, then he shall be faraway from Congress.”

Santos has repeatedly refused to resign, whilst strain has grown inside his personal social gathering for him to take action. On Thursday, he stated he would vacate his New York Metropolis-area seat provided that he loses the following election.

Greater than a dozen Republicans officers, a lot of them from Santos’ district, which covers elements of Queens and Lengthy Island, have demanded the resignation of the newly elected congressman. No less than six of his fellow Republican representatives from New York have joined the requires him to step down.

Home Speaker Kevin McCarthy has stated he’ll depart Santos’ destiny to the Ethics Committee and voters.

Democratic Consultant Dan Goldman stated he wrote on Sunday to McCarthy, Consultant Elise Stefanik, the Republican convention chairwoman, and Dan Conston, head of the Congressional Management Fund, a Home Republican fundraising group, a few New York Occasions report that they have been conscious of Santos’ fabrications earlier than the November election. He urged them to cooperate with any ethics investigation into the matter.

“It’s one factor for a candidate reminiscent of Mr. Santos to induce voters to assist him primarily based on an internet of lies,” Goldman wrote in his letter. “However it’s altogether one thing else if the highest ranges of Republican management knew about Mr. Santos’ lies throughout the marketing campaign and selected to be complicit.”

McCarthy, Stefanik’s workplace and the Congressional Management Fund didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark.

Reporting by Doina Chiacu; Enhancing by Daniel Wallis

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