Rep. George Santos, a Republican from New York, prior to a television interview on Capitol Hill in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 1, 2023. The U.S. House expelled Santos, ending a brief but sensational turn in national politics by a serial fabulist now under criminal indictment for fraud, theft and lying to the government. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg
The U.S. House of Representatives expelled George Santos, R-New York, from Congress last week in a historic vote following a House Ethics Committee investigation that uncovered “substantial evidence” the freshman representative engaged in a “complex web of unlawful activity involving [his] campaign, personal, and business finances.”
A two-thirds majority of the House approved the expulsion resolution authored by Mike Guest, R-Mississippi, Republican chairman of the House Ethics committee, in a decisive 311-114 vote.
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