Reality-averse Rep. George Santos (R-Queens/Lengthy Island) has been accused of sexual harassment by a person searching for to work for him, who says the embattled Republican groped him in his Capitol Hill workplace final month.
Derek Myers said on Twitter that he filed a report with the Capitol Police and requested a congressional ethics investigation towards Santos, claiming the admitted liar touched his groin with out consent and proposed sexual relations whereas they had been alone within the consultant’s workplace.
“These matters will not be litigated on social media or through news media,” Myers tweeted. “They are serious offenses and the evidence and facts will speak for themselves if the committee takes up the matter.”
These issues is not going to be litigated on social media or via information media. They’re severe offenses and the proof and details will communicate for themselves if the committee takes up the matter. This tweet is being made public in gentle of transparency. pic.twitter.com/oSs4F3xyqc
— Derek Myers (@DerekMyers) February 3, 2023
Myers alleges that on Jan. 25, he was alone with Santos in his private workplace studying constituent mail when the congressman referred to as him “buddy” and invited him to sit down subsequent to him on a settee. Santos put his hand close to Myers’ knee, he says, earlier than inviting him to karaoke, an invite he says he declined on account of his lack of vocal proclivity.
Myers then says Santos began shifting his hand up his thigh and finally touched his groin, earlier than saying “my husband is out of town if you want to come over.” Myers shot down the proposition and resumed dialogue of constituent mail, he says.
Earlier that day, Santos had requested Myers if he had a Grindr account, sharing that he himself had one regardless of being married.
A spokesperson for Santos referred inquiries to his lawyer, Joe Murray, who declined to remark.
Myers can also be requesting an investigation into the GOP rep for allegedly coaxing him to work as a volunteer below the guise of payroll points briefly stopping his full onboarding as a paid staffer, a job that by no means materialized.
The Capitol Police didn’t reply to a request for remark.
In October, Myers was charged with unlawful wiretapping whereas serving as editor of the Scioto Valley Guardian in Ohio, after the outlet printed illicitly-recorded courtroom testimony. The costs, decried by journalists, would finally come to the eye of Santos, who confronted Myers 5 days after the alleged sexual transgression and finally rescinded his job provide.
Myers, it turned out, secretly recorded that very dialog and on Thursday handed the tape over to Talking Points Memo, displaying the chaos evident within the workplace of probably the most infamous congressional freshman in reminiscence. Whereas Santos’ substantial public deceit got here up within the tape, the alleged sexual harassment from 5 days earlier didn’t.
The complicated internet of lies undergirding Santos’ political persona has unraveled since a bombshell New York Times investigation, printed after his election to Congress, detailed his fabricated instructional and work historical past, wealth, and charitable actions. Santos quickly admitted to mendacity on his resume throughout his marketing campaign, however as reporters and investigators untangle his story, the thriller round him solely deepens, with questions as primary as his actual title left unsettled.
Nearly each side of Santos’ life offered as reality has turned out to be fiction. He admitted to mendacity about being the Jewish descendant of Holocaust survivors, as an alternative declaring himself “Jew-ish.” None of his workers died within the Pulse nightclub taking pictures, as he had claimed. His mother was not within the World Commerce Heart on 9/11. And all that may be discovered of his charity work with animals is an accusation he swindled a disabled veteran of $3,000 raised to pay for his service canine’s surgical procedure, resulting in the pooch’s loss of life.
Regardless of taking his seat within the 118th Congress, Santos is in political freefall: 78% of his constituents say he ought to resign, together with 71% of Republicans, in line with a ballot by Newsday and Siena Faculty, whereas his erstwhile Republican allies within the Nassau County GOP, amongst many others, have called for his resignation, although Home Republican management continues to be declining to make that decision.
Santos can also be going through a slew of investigations into his habits: his shady marketing campaign finance dealings are being probed by the Division of Justice and Federal Election Fee, whereas the New York Lawyer Common and Nassau County District Lawyer are pursuing different legal leads. The FBI is investigating the claims Santos swindled the disabled vet and his canine, whereas Brazilian authorities have reopened a 2008 test fraud case that was shuttered when Santos fled the South American nation.
Santos additionally faces an inquiry by the Home Ethics Committee. Final week, he recused himself from his committee assignments, claiming he didn’t wish to be a distraction from the folks’s enterprise.