{"id":1830591,"date":"2023-01-31T15:34:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:34:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830591"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:36:43","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T20:36:43","slug":"george-santos-releases-statement-on-stepping-down-from-committee-assignments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/george-santos-releases-statement-on-stepping-down-from-committee-assignments\/","title":{"rendered":"George Santos Releases Statement On Stepping Down From Committee Assignments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fgeorge-santos-releases-statement-on-stepping-down-from-committee-assignments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1830591&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p>Rep. George Santos (R.NY) stated Tuesday in a statement that he asked that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-CA, remove him from his committee assignments. There are several criminal investigations underway into him.<\/p>\n<p>Federal and local authorities are investigating the freshman congressman who admitted to lying about certain aspects of his personal and professional life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the ongoing attention surrounding both my personal and campaign financial investigations, I have submitted a request to Speaker McCarthy that I be temporarily recused from my committee assignments until I am cleared,\u201d Santos made the statement in a statement. \u201cThis was a decision that I take very seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe business of the 118th Congress must continue without media fanfare,\u201d He went on. \u201cIt is important that I primarily focus on serving the constituents of New York\u2019s Third Congressional District and providing federal level representation without distraction.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy was thanked for meeting Santos and for allowing him time to take his assignments from his committee. Santos stated that he was going back to \u201cclear\u201d His name.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my constituents, I remain committed to serving the district, and delivering results for both New York\u2019s Third Congressional District and for the American people,\u201d Santos said.<\/p>\n<p>Santos has already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/new-york-rep-elect-who-made-false-statements-about-career-personal-life-admits-it\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">admitted<\/a> He admitted to lying about his work at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, as well as that he didn&#8217;t graduate from college. Santos also admitted that he exaggerated some details about his personal life, religion and sexuality.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Times\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/01\/02\/nyregion\/george-santos-brazil.html\">reported<\/a> This month, law enforcement officials in Brazil were informed that they would be moving to Brazil earlier this month \u201cintend to revive fraud charges\u201d Santos is being held responsible for an incident in 2008 where a checkbook was allegedly stolen.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, the case was suspended as law enforcement couldn&#8217;t find him. Brazilian prosecutors will now request that the Department of Justice notify Santos of these charges.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Santos, then 19, went into a small store to buy clothing and spent $700. He used a stolen checkbook, and a false name. The fraud was allegedly confessed by Santos on a Brazilian social networking site the next year.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, he and his mother admitted to police that they had stolen the checkbook in order to make fraudulent purchases. Santos was convicted of the charges in 2010. However, Santos had already fled the country and was now living in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that neither the U.S. nor Brazilian officials could get Santos to reply at this point. But, this could change if the case goes forward. Santos could spend up to half a century in prison if convicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rep. George Santos (R-NY) said in a statement Tuesday that he requested that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) remove him from his committee assignments amid several active criminal investigations into him. The freshman congressman, who has admitted to lying about aspects of his career and personal life, is facing probes from federal and local authorities. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":1830594,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7403,4384,5811,6171,12040,6317,10722],"class_list":["post-1830591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-assignments","tag-committee","tag-george","tag-releases","tag-santos","tag-statement","tag-stepping"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1830594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}