Federal prosecutors on Long Island filed new criminal charges against Rep. George Santos on Tuesday.
Federal prosecutors on Long Island filed new criminal charges against Rep. George Santos on Tuesday, accusing him of stealing people's identities, making charges on his donors' credit cards without their authorization and lying to federal election officials.
Specifically, in Tuesday's 23-count superseding indictment, Santos has been charged with "two counts of wire fraud, two counts of making materially false statements to the Federal Election Commission , two counts of falsifying records submitted to obstruct the FEC, two counts of aggravated identity theft and one count of access device fraud," the United States Attorney's Office in the Eastern District of New York said in a release.
"As alleged, Santos is charged with stealing people's identities and making charges on his own donors' credit cards without their authorization, lying to the FEC and, by extension, the public about the financial state of his campaign. Santos falsely inflated the campaign's reported receipts with non-existent loans and contributions that were either fabricated or stolen," Breon Peace, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said in a statement.
According to the charges, Santos allegedly said he lent his campaign $500,000 when he only had $8,000 on hand.When asked by reporters on Capitol Hill if he would step down Tuesday night following the new charges, Santos said, "I will not.
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