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Maya Yang and agency

George Santos faces new move to expel him from Congress after ethics report

George Santos has been engulfed in scandal since his 2022 election, following revelations that he lied about much of his past and federal fraud charges.
George Santos has been engulfed in scandal since his 2022 election, following revelations that he lied about his past and federal fraud charges. Photograph: Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images

The embattled Republican US representative George Santos faced a fresh effort to expel him from Congress on Friday, the day after fellow lawmakers released a report that suggested federal prosecutors should bring additional criminal charges against him.

The House of Representatives ethics committee chairman, Michael Guest, introduced the bill targeting the first-term lawmaker from New York, who is now known as much for being a fabulist and a criminal defendant as a politician.

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