From a resume of lies to an OnlyFans scandal: George Santos’s many, many controversies

Facing a mountain of scandals and lies, George Santos was finally kicked out of Congress on 1 December 2023.

Over 100 Republicans joined Democrats to vote overwhelmingly in favour of expelling the serial fabulist and accused fraudster from the House.

The move came in the wake of a damning report by the House Ethics Committee, which found that the embattled New York Republican engaged in “uncharged and unlawful conduct.”

Mr Santos has in fact been charged, too. In May, he was arrested and charged with 13 federal criminal counts, including wire fraud, money laundering, and theft of public funds. A superseding indictment was later handed down in October, increasing the federal charges against Mr Santos to 23.

In addition to the myriad of legal troubles, Mr Santos has also been accused of lying about his personal history. He has claimed that he was a star volleyball player at Baruch College, worked at Goldman Sachs, has ancestors who fled the Holocaust and that his mother died during 9/11 – none of these claims have been substantiated.

Dogged by surely one of the oddest string of scandals to hit American politics in the last few years, Mr Santos faced calls for his expulsion and resignation even before he was seated as representative for New York’s 3rd Congressional District.

Just two months before he would go on to be elected as a member of Congress, George Santos was the subject of a story in a small Long Island-area newspaper called The North Shore Leader. With no suggestion of how it occurred, the Leader pointed out that Mr Santos’s financial disclosure forms had indicated a shocking surge of wealth in just two years.

“Controversial US congressional candidate George Santos has finally filed his Personal Financial