House Dems move to censure lying Rep. George Santos

House Democrats moved on Monday to censure lying Long Island Rep. George Santos for fabricating details about his personal and professional life and allegedly violating federal finance laws during his 2022 campaign.

South Bronx Rep. Ritchie Torres introduced a privileged resolution to discipline Santos, saying House Republicans “have been protecting” the 34-year-old and must “stop treating him as untouchable” after the majority voted in May to refer an expulsion resolution to the House Ethics Committee.

Last month, Republicans voted to censure Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) for having amplified claims of collusion between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russia.

Rep. Nick LaLota (R-NY) said at the time of the May vote that he “preferred there to be enough votes to expel the sociopath scam artist,” but said the ethics referral would likely be completed “within 60 days” and predicted that “the terrible liar” would resign or be expelled before the August congressional recess.

“If you are a member of Congress who has condemned Rep. Santos or called for him to resign from office, then you should have no issue in voting to formally censure him for defrauding the people of the United States and disgracing our institution,” Torres said in a statement Monday. “The time has come for Congress to hold him accountable.”

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said in June that Santos should not seek re-election after being indicted the previous month on 13 counts of money laundering, theft of public funds and lying to Congress.

The Third District rep pleaded not guilty to the charges and was released on a $500,000 bond secured by his father and aunt. He has called the federal probe a “witch hunt.”

McCarthy said he expected the Ethics panel to “move rapidly” on their Santos probe, saying a decision on whether to expel the lawmaker could come “faster than the court case.”

Tom Rust, House Ethics Committee chief counsel, declined comment when contacted by The Post.

Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) and Rep. Robert Garcia (D-Calif.) co-sponsored Torres’ privileged resolution, which means a vote must be scheduled within two days of its introduction.

The three Democratic lawmakers say Santos “lied to voters in his district, donors and the American public during his campaign,” pointing to his admitted falsehoods about being Jewish and his grandparents having survived the Holocaust.

Among other lies, they noted, Santos also claimed that his mother died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks; that he received a bachelor’s degree from Baruch College while on a volleyball scholarship; that he worked for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup; that he had already settled a criminal case in Brazil accusing him of theft; and that he failed to file required congressional finance disclosure reports.

Santos had voluntarily stepped down from his committee assignments in January after initial reports showed he lied about substantial portions of his personal biography during his candidacy and an earlier Ethics Committee probe was launched.

Kellen Curry, an Afghanistan war veteran and former vice president at JPMorgan, filed paperwork in April to unseat Santos in the 2024 Republican primary in the district, which covers Nassau County and part of Queens.