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Martin Pengelly

Democrat calls McCarthy ‘pathetic and shameful’ for protecting Santos after aide charged

George Santos
George Santos, whose aide Samuel Miele has been indicted on four counts of wire fraud and one of aggravated identity theft. Photograph: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

A senior Democrat called Kevin McCarthy “pathetic and shameful” on Wednesday, for continuing to protect George Santos even as a staffer to the fabulist Republican congressman faced charges for impersonating the House speaker’s own chief of staff.

Daniel Goldman of New York said: “According to a federal indictment, George Santos paid someone to impersonate Kevin McCarthy’s chief of staff to raise money, yet McCarthy continues to protect Santos.

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