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NY lawmakers request probe of George Santos for lies about finances, Judaism

By Luke Tress 10 January 2023, 8:19 pm Edit

Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent.

US House Representatives Ritchie Torres and Daniel Goldman, both Democrats from New York City, formally request an investigation into Representative George Santos for lying about his background.

Torres and Goldman file the request with the House’s ethics committee asking it to probe whether Santos’s “sparse and perplexing” financial disclosures violated laws.

They also say Santos violated trust in public officials by lying to voters about his religious background and other issues. Santos lied during the campaign about being Jewish and falsely said his grandparents were Holocaust refugees.

“Mr. Santos misled voters in his district about his ethnicity, his religion, his education, and his employment and professional history,” the request says.

“Given the revelations about his biography, as well as the public information pertaining to his financial disclosures, Mr. Santos has failed to uphold the integrity expected of members of the House of Representatives,” Torres and Goldman say.

Goldman is Jewish and Torres is an outspoken advocate of Jewish issues and Israel. Santos is a Republican from Long Island and represents an area with a significant Jewish community.

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