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George Santos threatened to file ethics complaints against several of his former New York Republican colleagues on Saturday, following his expulsion from the House on Friday.
Eight of Santos' New York Republican colleagues in the House voted to expel him in an extraordinary vote after his long history of lying was exposed and he was hit with multiple criminal charges.
The Long Island congressman, who stole donor funds to spend on OnlyFans and Botox, fled Capitol Hill as he became just the sixth House member in history to be kicked out.
Over 100 Republicans joined Democrats in booting out the fabulist liar in a historic vote Friday totaling 311 to 114, with two members voting 'present.'
Later that night and in the early hours of Saturday morning, Santos took to X, formerly Twitter, to take a swipe at former colleagues including Representative Nicole Malliotakis and Mike Lawler.
The Long Island congressman fled Capitol Hill on Friday as he became just the sixth House member in history to be kicked out
Santos told reporters 'to hell with this place' as he left Congress following the vote on Friday
'On Monday I will be filling an Ethics complaint against @RepMikeLawler for questionable campaign finance violations.' Santos wrote on the platform on Friday.
'Congressman Lawler owns portion of Checkmate Strategies and he uses the same firm that he is a beneficiary of to pay for services related to his campaign' he alleged.
He added: 'The concerning questions are; is Mr Lawler engaging in laundering money form his campaign to his firm then into his own pocket? I will let the Office of Congressional Ethics be the judge of that.'
Santos also took aim at Republican Representative Nicole Malliotakis.
'Monday I will be filling an official complaint with the Office of congressional Ethics against @NMilliotakis regarding her questionable stock trading since joining the Ways and Means committee this Congress' Santos wrote.
'Before joining the committee the congresswoman didn't have an active trading habit or a high volume stake.
'The question is, what set of information is she trading with?' he added.
Santos also turned his sights on Democratic Representative Rob Menendez, whose Senator father Bob Menendez was charged for allegedly taking bribes from the state of Egypt in September.
Santos took aim at Republican Representative Nicole Malliotakis (pictured) accusing her of 'questionable stock trading'
Santos said he was filing and Ethics complaint against Mike Lawler (pictured) for 'questionable campaign finance violations'
Santos lashed out at his former colleagues on X, formerly Twitter, the day after being expelled from the House of Representatives
'While congressman Menedez has not been invoked by the diligent investigation of the DOJ into his father, there remains a question of what did he know and when did he know it,' wrote Santos.
'The complaint is to seek clarification from the freshman congressman on his involvement with his fathers overseas dealing over the years and any potential compensation he received.'
He continued: 'I think it's a fair point to make sure we weed out the doubt surrounding Rep Menendez and his business associations with his father. I will leave it to the office of congressional ethics to investigate the material I'll be submitting to them.'
DailyMail.com reached out to Mr Lawler and Ms Malliotakis and Mr Menendez for comment but did not receive response before publication.
Santos' mountains of lies include fabricating family links to the Holocaust, 9/11 killing his mother, working on Wall Street, recovering from a brain tumor, being of Ukrainian-Jewish descent and starting a charity.
Santos survived a vote to expel him last month because 31 Democrats and most Republicans voted to keep him, many of them saying they would rather wait until an Ethics Committee report came out detailing his wrongdoings. It takes a two-thirds vote in the House to expel a sitting member of Congress.
Friday's vote was different, with 105 total Republicans voting to boot out their colleague. Santos is the first member to be expelled in more than two decades.
Santos stormed off the House floor minutes before the vote sealing his fate concluded
Despite denying it, internet sleuths appear to have discovered that Santos - who is claimed to be pictured here dressed in drag in 2007 - confirmed it himself in a 2011 post on Wikipedia
In the now-public ethics report, Santos was found to have used campaign money and donations to fund a lavish lifestyle, engaged in fraud, filed false election reports and 'willfully' violated ethics
The devastating ethics report alleged he improperly diverted campaign contributions to pay for Botox treatments, Hermes bags, OnlyFans purchases and cash withdrawals at a casino.
Now, the Republican's thin majority in the House is even smaller, and the GOP can only afford to lose three votes. The new breakdown totals 221 Republicans and 213 Democrats.
Some in GOP leadership - including Speaker Mike Johnson and GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik - were reluctant to expel Santos because he has not been convicted in court for his alleged crimes.
Santos' expulsion from the House is immediate and New York Gov. Kathy Hochul will have to declare the seat vacant and call for a special election to fill his position.
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