Two Democratic lawmakers from New York referred to as on GOP leaders Sunday to “forthrightly cooperate” with all of the investigations into freshman Rep. George Santos, the Republican who confessed to having fabricated massive elements of his résumé.
In a letter Sunday, Reps. Dan Goldman and Ritchie Torres requested Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Home GOP caucus chair Rep. Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., and Congressional Management Fund President Dan Conston to “proactively and forthrightly cooperate with all present and future investigations into Mr. Santos, together with the investigation by the Home Committee on Ethics that Speaker McCarthy confirmed this week.”
“In addition, we urge you to inform the American people about your knowledge of Mr. Santos’s web of deceit prior to the election so that the public understands whether and to what extent you were complicit in Mr. Santos’s fraud on his voters.”
The letter factors to a current New York Times report that detailed GOP leaders’ consciousness of Santos’ false claims earlier than the November midterms election.
The report expanded “upon the degree to which each of you had at least some foreknowledge of Mr. Santos’s lies,” Goldman and Torres wrote. “Sadly, even now, after eight other Republican members of Congress have called for Mr. Santos to resign, you have refused to make any public comment on Mr. Santos’s fraudulent candidacy, nor have you shared with the public your understanding of Mr. Santos’s blatant deception and lies prior to the election.”
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