Rep. George Santos is facing many investigations. Here's a rundown. - USA TODAY

NEW YORK - Newly elected Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., is facing a big of questions: He's accused of faking his résumé and the circumstances of his mother's death along with having questionable run finances reporting and allegations of pilfering from a fundraising run for a dying dog, among different things.

He has acknowledged embellishing his educational inheritance and occupation history, but has denied astir of the different allegations, adjacent arsenic helium was sworn successful for his caller House station this month.

The allegations person sparked aggregate demands for his resignation, arsenic good arsenic astatine slightest 2 investigations and calls for further probes. Santos, 34, has repeatedly said helium volition not resign. Here's a summary of the investigations and reviews.

State investigations

Santos' district includes a portion of northern Nassau County, N.Y., connected Long Island, arsenic good arsenic portion of Queens, New York City's eastbound borough. Nassau District Attorney Anne Donnelly, a Republican, announced that her bureau would investigate Santos aft helium publically acknowledged having embellished his résumé.

"The galore fabrications and inconsistencies associated with Congressman-Elect Santos are thing abbreviated of stunning. The residents of Nassau County and different parts of the Third (Congressional) District indispensable person an honorable and accountable typical successful Congress," Donnelly said successful a connection issued by her bureau successful precocious December. 

"No 1 is supra the instrumentality and if a transgression was committed successful this county, we volition prosecute it," Donnelly concluded.

Her bureau provided nary details of the investigation, leaving it unclear what imaginable crimes could beryllium nether review.

New York State Attorney General Letitia James' bureau said successful precocious December that it was "looking into a fig of issues" involving Santos. However, the announcement stopped abbreviated of confirming a ceremonial investigation.

Federal investigation

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, headquartered in Brooklyn, includes Santos' legislature district. An investigation by U.S. Attorney Breon Peace, the apical authoritative for the Eastern District, is focused successful portion connected Santos' fiscal dealings, according to reports by The New York Times, CNN and different news organizations.

A spokesperson for Peace did not respond to a connection seeking comment.

Questions astir Santos' fiscal dealings person included the sources of backing for his 2022 campaign, arsenic good arsenic a crisp summation successful his reported net betwixt his unsuccessful 2020 legislature run and victory successful 2022.

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Calls for run finance investigations

Several organizations and elected officials person called connected the Federal Election Commission to analyse Santos' run backing and spending. The Campaign Legal Center, a non-partisan advocator for voters, went further by filing a complaint with the FEC. The enactment besides sent the ailment to the U.S. Department of Justice's nationalist integrity section.

The complaint alleges that Santos:

• Concealed the existent sources of his 2022 legislature run funding, including the "unexplained and highly suspicious origins of $705,000 Santos purportedly loaned his campaign." Unknown companies and individuals whitethorn person illegally funneled wealth to the run done a constricted liability institution helium created, the CLC said.
• Falsified reports connected his 2022 run spending. In all, Santos reported 40 disbursements betwixt $199 and $200. And 37 of the expenditures were for $199.99, one penny beneath the FEC threshold for requiring receipts, invoices oregon canceled checks.
•  Illegally utilized run funds for idiosyncratic expenses, including a residence for Santos.

The FEC and Department of Justice person not commented connected the CLC complaint.

Separately, Reps. Ritchie Torres and Daniel Goldman, some Democratic House members from New York, person asked the House Ethics Committee to investigate Santos.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., whose slim, four-seat bulk tin sick spend to suffer a GOP member, has largely avoided the controversy. As McCarthy's tenure arsenic talker began, Santos was named to 2 House committees by his chap Republicans successful the chamber.

Revived transgression allegations successful Brazil

Law enforcement authorities successful Brazil, wherever Santos' parents were born, program to reopen an investigation into Santos' alleged usage of a stolen checkbook successful 2008, The New York Times reported.

Allegedly utilizing a mendacious name, helium utilized the checkbook for astir $700 successful spending astatine a store extracurricular Rio de Janeiro, the Times reported.

The probe went dormant due to the fact that Brazilian authorities were incapable to find Santos. Now, the officials program to inquire the U.S. Department of Justice to notify Santos astir the charges, a determination that would alteration the lawsuit to proceed.

“I americium not a transgression present — not present oregon successful Brazil oregon immoderate jurisdiction successful the world,” Santos told the New York Post in December earlier the Times study of the Brazilian lawsuit being revived.