A Republican congressman who lied about his profession, training, sexuality and even about organising an animal charity stated he won’t stand for re-election subsequent 12 months after an investigation discovered that his conduct amounted to a breach of federal regulation.
George Santos’s announcement adopted the discharge of a scathing report into his behaviour from the House of Representatives’ ethics committee.
It concluded that there was “overwhelming evidence” of law-breaking by Santos, 35, who represents a district in New York. It discovered that he “blatantly stole” from his marketing campaign and used the money for private functions.
Protesters outdoors the courtroom the place Santos appeared final month
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The 56-page report additionally detailed Santos’s lack of co-operation with the investigation and stated that he had “evaded” simple requests for data. The data that he did present, the