Lying fraudster Rep.-elect George "Liar-ish" Santos (R-NY) is on the apology tour for making up his entire resume, including the fact that he's not, as he put it, "Jew-ish." The family history, the education, the work experience, the properties he supposedly owned, all were blatant lies ("embellishments" as he called them to downplay it).
However, it appears that there's more to the scandal in the way of the financial disclosure statement that's required by Federal law, and false statements are punishable under the law. As we've seen, Santos is a pathological liar, so why would such statements be beyond his lying. Brendan Buck, a Republican aide to former Speaker John Boehner, explained the situation with his financial disclosure statements on MSNBC this morning:
"You have to file that when you run for office. He ran before, he ran two years ago and apparently filed that he had no accounts or assets worth more than $5,000. This time around, it was apparently worth around $11 million or $12 million. Where did that happen? Where did that come from? Is that true?
Filing a false financial disclosure is actually a crime. The ethics committee is absolutely going to look at this, I think law enforcement may look at this. The other thing is, he apparently loaned his committee $700,000 from himself. Where did he get $700,000? There's a lot of really interesting questions that we haven't gotten to the bottom of."
It's unlikely that Santos has an honest answer for any of this, and he can't dispute what he's sworn to in black and white. As far as law enforcement is concerned, the New York Attorney General's office is reviewing Santos' records for any State law for any violations, and appropriate Federal agencies are likely also looking into his financial disclosure statements by now (see here). However, the odds of a House ethics committee review under the Speakership of Kevin "Qevin" McCarthy are vanishingly small, as he's trying to hold a slim majority and not offend his corrupt and radical caucus, who won't want distractions from "investigating" Hunter Biden's laptop.
(photo: "I'm an <airquote> 'honest' guy!"/ European Pressphoto Agency)
