George Santos Survives Expulsion Vote
metroweekly.comprivileged resolution had cited Santos’s indictment on 23 criminal charges.It also cited the recent guilty plea by Nancy Marks to charges of falsifying campaign finance reports.
Marks was the former treasurer for Santos’s congressional campaign.It also cited Santos’s history of fabrications — many to which he has admitted publicly — regarding his professional and personal background, including his heritage, his educational and work history, and his “history of misrepresenting his and his family’s connections to major events, including the Holocaust, Sept.
11th terrorist attacks and the Pulse nightclub shooting.”Santos has pleaded not guilty to the criminal charges against him and is scheduled to be tried next September.He argued he has not been convicted of those charges, and accused members voting to expel him of denying him due process.“One can’t say that they are pro-Constitution and at the same time act as judge, jury, and executioner.
Where is the consistency?” Santos said of his critics during a floor speech ahead of the vote.Santos noted that the last time a House member was expelled, more than 20 years ago, that person — U.S.
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