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Santos has admitted lying about his background but denies fraud
George Santos will face a new expulsion vote after the head of the House ethics committee introduced a motion to kick him out of Congress.
The House is expected to vote after Thanksgiving, the second time it will weigh expelling him in roughly a month.
An ethics report released on Thursday said Mr Santos exploited “every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit.”
He also allegedly spent campaign funds on luxury goods and vacations.
“Given his egregious violations, Representative George Santos is not fit to serve as a Member of the United States House of Representatives,” said the ethics committee chairman, Michael Guest, a Republican, in introducing the latest expulsion measure.
Some of the lawmakers who voted against expelling him had said they wanted to read the report coming out of the months-long ethics investigation into his campaign before they decided whether to kick him out.
The report from the committee, which is split evenly between Republicans and Democrats, was scathing in its assessment of Mr Santos, listing voluminous details about alleged frauds.
On social media, Mr Santos called it “biased” and announced he would not run for re-election.
The New York Republican had portrayed himself as a self-made wealthy financier and property owner.
The report stated: “That background was largely fictional.”
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