"I will NOT be seeking re-election for a second term in 2024 as my family deserves better than to be under the gun from the press all the time," Santos wrote on X, calling the report "biased" and "a disgusting politicised smear". But after the report detailed his conduct, moves to introduce a new expulsion resolution began.
"Representative Santos sought to fraudulently exploit every aspect of his House candidacy for his own personal financial profit," the committee said. "He blatantly stole from his campaign. He deceived donors into providing what they thought were contributions to his campaign but were in fact payments for his personal benefit.
"He reported fictitious loans to his political committees to induce donors and party committees to make further contributions to his campaign - and then diverted more campaign money to himself as purported 'repayments' of those fictitious loans.
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