Rep. Santos Won’t Run for Reelection After Damning Ethics Panel Report

A bipartisan House Ethics Committee report found “substantial evidence” of criminal misconduct by the embattled New York congressman.

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) casts his vote as the House of Representatives holds its second round of voting for a new Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Oct. 18, 2023. Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) announced on Nov. 16 that he wouldn’t run for reelection, less than an hour after the House Ethics Committee released its report finding that there was “substantial evidence” that Mr. Santos had violated federal law.

“I will remain steadfast in fighting for my rights and for defending my name in the face of adversity. I am humbled yet again and reminded that I am human and I have flaws, but I will not stand by as I am stoned by those who have flaws themselves,” he wrote on X, formerly Twitter.