The U.S. House of Representatives members kicked George Santos out of the House on Friday after being accused of multiple crimes.
The Alarmee, in an overwhelming votes of 311 to 114, the New York Republican was removed from the House.
The CNN reports that the House voted to expel indicted Santos over ethics violations, making him only the sixth lawmaker ever kicked out of the chamber.
The resolution passed with a tally of 311-114, with 105 Republicans voting in favour. All four top House GOP leaders voted to keep Santos in Congress.
Only two Democrats voted against expelling Santos from the House. They were Bobby Scott of Virginia and Nikema Williams of Georgia.
Santos had survived two previous expulsion votes. He called efforts to oust him “bullying” and said the allegations were “slanderous.”
Several of Santos’ Republican colleagues turned against him after backing him in two previous expulsion votes, even though party leaders did not support it.
Santos, with problems telling the truth and who is under federal indictment for fraud, money laundering, theft and stealing donors’ identities, becomes just the third federally elected lawmaker since the Civil War to be kicked out of the House by his peers, CNN reports.
Rep. Max Miller, a GOP freshman from Ohio also accused of Santos of stealing money from him and his mother, and attacked Speaker Mike Johnson for opposing Santos’ expulsion.
