


The House Committee on Ethics won’t recommend a specific course of action against lying Long Island Rep. George Santos when it issues its report on various claims against the Republican congressman, the panel’s chairman revealed Wednesday.
“We did not go through the longer process of coming forth and recommending sanctions because that would have taken several more months,” Rep. Michael Guest (R-Miss.) told reporters ahead of the document’s expected release Thursday.
Despite the lack of recommendations, Guest predicted that the report’s findings will lead to a renewed effort to expel Santos from the House of Representatives.
The 10-member panel has been examining the 35-year-old Nassau County and Queens lawmaker since February.
Earlier this month, Santos survived an expulsion effort championed by six of his fellow House Republicans from New York.
The ethics panel’s inquiry probed allegations in the 23-count indictment leveled against Santos in the Eastern District of New York, as well as claims that he sexually harassed a former staffer and breached federal laws against conflicts of interest
“The [investigative subcommittee] has contacted approximately 40 witnesses, reviewed more than 170,000 pages of documents, and authorized 37 subpoenas,” the committee announced Oct. 31.
Santos has pleaded not guilty to all the criminal charges lodged against him. He has also refused to step down from the lower chamber and intends to run for re-election next year.

Prosecutors have accused Santos of falsifying records with the Federal Election Commission, stealing the identities of campaign donors, and racking up tens of thousands of dollars on their credit cards without authorization.
On top of the criminal charges, Santos has been engulfed in controversy for fabricating large swaths of his backstory.
In December of last year, Santos admitted to The Post he had made up key claims he made about his biography during his past two congressional campaigns.
This included lying about his education and work experience, confessing that he “never worked directly” for Goldman Sachs and Citigroup.
Santos also disavowed statements on his campaign website that his mother was Jewish and his grandparents escaped Nazi persecution during World War II, instead claiming his grandmother told stories about being Jewish and later converting to Catholicism.
“I never claimed to be Jewish,” Santos said at the time. “I am Catholic. Because I learned my maternal family had a Jewish background I said I was ‘Jew-ish.’”