Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is in custody Wednesday after being indicted on 13 federal charges, including wire fraud and money laundering.
The charges comprise seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of making materially false statements to the House of Representatives.
He is in custody at the federal courthouse on Long Island, according to a spokesperson for the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York. Santos will be arraigned at approximately 1 p.m.
Santos’s surrender came one day after reports surfaced that federal prosecutors had filed criminal charges against the congressman. The charges, however, remained unsealed until Wednesday morning.
The New York Republican has been the subject of intense scrutiny since before he was sworn in amid questions about his resume and biography.
A number of entities are said to be looking into him, in addition to the House Ethics Committee, which launched an investigation in March.
Several lawmakers from both parties have been calling for the congressman to resign, a number of whom reupped that stance after news surfaced of the charges against him.
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It is about time that crooked politicians be arrested. No one is above the law not even ex presidents.
Yeah, so what about Hunter Biden and the family cabal?
Hunter Biden is not a politician. But the whole trump family was working in the White House. They should all be investigated.
DLC stop with the BS garbage spewed by your best friends Joe and Obama. You say things against Trump which have not been proven but shown to be fake. Obama got elected and is the first person who is not an American to be elected to that office, but a Kenyan. He and Biden where both being traitors while he served as POTUS. Neither where in favor of America or its constitution. Biden has not told the truth since he was a baby and saw his dad and said DaDa. Neither love America its constitution or its people. Both just the opposite of DT.
NavVet you must be the stupidest of all Americans to believe all of trump lies.