The expansion of the investigation comes a month after Santos was indicted on federal charges, which include wrongfully claiming unemployment benefits.
, which allege that he defrauded his donors, used their money for his personal benefit and wrongfully claimed unemployment benefits.
Santos faces seven counts of wire fraud, three counts of money laundering, one count of theft of public funds and two counts of lying to the House of Representatives on financial forms. The congressman pleaded not guilty in May and vowed to prove his innocence.The Justice Department declined to comment on the ethics panel’s announcement Thursday. Santos’s congressional office also declined to comment on the matter.
The congressman stepped down from his committee assignments in January. But he has vowed not to resign from office, and in April. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy rebuffed a Democratic-led effort to expel the embattled lawmaker, saying he deserved due process, which McCarthy argued the bipartisan committee could provide.
“I think these accusations are very serious,” McCarthy told reporters last month, but “you have to have process.” In addition to the federal charges, the New York congressman was the subject of complaints filed by watchdog groups with the Federal Election Commission this year that
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