{"id":1927905,"date":"2023-05-10T06:26:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-10T10:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-leaves-open-whether-santos-will-be-removed-from-congress-after-reported-charges\/"},"modified":"2023-05-10T06:26:03","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T10:26:03","slug":"mccarthy-leaves-open-whether-santos-will-be-removed-from-congress-after-reported-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mccarthy-leaves-open-whether-santos-will-be-removed-from-congress-after-reported-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"McCarthy Leaves Open Whether Santos Will Be Removed from Congress After Reported Charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/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%2Fmccarthy-leaves-open-whether-santos-will-be-removed-from-congress-after-reported-charges%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=1927905&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>House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) would not say that Congressman George Santos (R-N.Y.) must leave the House of Representatives as the latter faces criminal charges from the Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI\u2019ll look at the charges,\u201d McCarthy told reporters on May 9, during a press conference mainly focused on debt ceiling negotiations with President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>  President Joe Biden hosts debt limit talks with House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) and other congressional leaders in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on May 9, 2023. (Reuters\/Kevin Lamarque) CNN first broke the story of Santos\u2019 imminent indictment the afternoon of May 9, citing \u201cthree sources familiar with the matter.\u201d Their story claims he could appear in a courtroom as soon as tomorrow, May 10. It also asserts the charges remain under seall.<\/p>\n<p> The Epoch Times has reached out to the Department of Justice for confirmation.<\/p>\n<p> The embattled freshman Congressman faces federal charges in the Eastern District of New York, according to reports.<\/p>\n<p> Santos has faced a litany of accusations since taking office, against a backdrop of demonstrably false statements by the lawmaker, ranging from the trivial to the potentially criminal.<\/p>\n<p> The nonpartisan watchdog group Campaign Legal Center\u00a0alleged\u00a0that he violated federal campaign finance law during the midterms.<\/p>\n<p> He described himself as a \u201cterrible liar\u201d during a February interview with Piers Morgan.<\/p>\n<p> Although McCarthy granted Santos committee assignments at start of the 118th Congress, Santos soon stepped down from those assignments.<\/p>\n<p> Other New York Republicans went on to introduce a bill targeting individuals indicted for campaign finance violations, in a move inspired by Santos.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cCon artists, liars, and fabulists wh<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) would not say that Congressman George Santos (R-N.Y.) must leave the House of Representatives as the latter faces criminal charges from the Biden administration\u2019s Justice Department. \u201cI\u2019ll look at the charges,\u201d McCarthy told reporters on May 9, during a press conference mainly focused on debt ceiling negotiations with President<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":1927907,"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":[543],"tags":[4035,4402,7028,3663,5362,10692,12040],"class_list":["post-1927905","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-charges","tag-congress","tag-leaves","tag-mccarthy","tag-removed","tag-reported","tag-santos"],"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\/1927905","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\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1927907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}