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  This is obviously not the same as the simple lies some candidates make, come on.
context: What can the AG do here? Is there potential for election fraud charges, or is the only remedy a recall election? >
  
  If he lied in his filing documents to run as a Congressman, that's a felony I believe.   There's also a question of whether his claim of being a NY resident was true or not, as he does not own the property that he claimed to be living in, and was living with a relative at the time. >
  
  residency requirements are pretty loose . owning property is not a requirement for residency and voting and running for office >
  
  In NY state?   Not sure about that.   Anyway,  having a legal residence in the state is a requirement.   It all depends on what he claimed in his filing, though, doesn't it?  I feel like the lies about his finances are going to be harder to handwave away. >
  
  If he has a NY drivers license and is registered to vote in NY that is enough to establish residency .    investigation into his finances will only come after he is seated in the House. >
  
  Sorry, but lying on his filing  to run does not have to wait for anything. >
  
  Look, politicians have always lied — as George Carlin famously joked, the reason we can’t display the 10 Commandments in a courthouse is you can’t post Thou shall not lie in a building full of lawyers, judges and politicians - but we seem to have reached another level at this point in history, when an entire percentage of our country dismisses a pathological liar as the President of the United States, and now this guy comes in, and appears to be a total fraud with crickets from the republican party. 
  We are about to find out if Trump is held accountable, or if this guy faces any consequences. There are campaign and finance laws that are pretty clear. >
  
  The outcome of these two “events”, trump and Santos, may actually decide the legitimacy of our country for the next decade or two >
  
  Campaigns are nothing but marketing constructed to sell a person to the gullible masses. If you want to know a politician or person look at their resume, work history, criminal record, tax reports etc. Take their promises, claims, and campaign with a massive grain of salt. >
  
  I wouldn’t put too much weight into this guy’s resume. He lied on his education and work history, among others. >
  
  Edit - She can’t do shit, it’s a federal Constitutional office. 
  There can’t be a recall election either.  
  Congress needs to vote to kick him out, that’s the only way to remove him. >
  
  Mostly looking at if he lied on his federal paperwork about anything and if residency issues are true or not. >
  
  Even if he is convicted of a thousand felonies and sent to prison forever only Congress can judge his conduct and remove him. >
  
  Well, it's pretty hard to be a congressman from jail. >
  
  Review?? He should be arrested. >
  
  How did his lies not get found out during the election? His opponent should have been researching this and putting it out there…before people voted. It’s much harder now for him to be removed. >
  
  They were found out and brought to the press attention by the opposing candidate's team. Press didn't run with it. >
  
  The Republican has admitted to lying about having Jewish ancestry, a Wall Street pedigree and a college degree, but he has yet to address other lingering questions — including the source of what appears to be a quickly amassed fortune despite recent financial problems, including evictions and owing thousands in back rent.
  Some fellow Republicans had called for Congress and law enforcement to launch inquiries.
  Fellow Long Island Republican, Rep.-elect Nick Lalota said he was troubled by the revelations.
  “I believe a full investigation by the House Ethics Committee and, if necessary, law enforcement, is required,” Lalota said Tuesday. >
  
  Listen to him. He’s not very bright, either.  He did fool a lot of New Yorkers but how hard could that be? >
  
  Does he use the same spray tan as Trump? >
  
  Or it could be he's just a lying fraud.
  
  Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, the marquee Wall Street firms on Mr. Santos’s campaign biography, told The Times they had no record of his ever working there. Officials at Baruch College, which Mr. Santos has said he graduated from in 2010, could find no record of anyone matching his name and date of birth graduating that year.
  There was also little evidence that his animal rescue group, Friends of Pets United, was, as Mr. Santos claimed, a tax-exempt organization: The Internal Revenue Service could locate no record of a registered charity with that name.
  His financial disclosure forms suggest a life of some wealth. He lent his campaign more than $700,000 during the midterm election, has donated thousands of dollars to other candidates in the last two years and reported a $750,000 salary and over $1 million in dividends from his company, the Devolder Organization.
  Yet the firm, which has no public website or LinkedIn page, is something of a mystery. On a campaign website, Mr. Santos once described Devolder as his “family’s firm” that managed $80 million in assets. On his congressional financial disclosure, he described it as a capital introduction consulting company, a type of boutique firm that serves as a liaison between investment funds and deep-pocketed investors. But Mr. Santos’s disclosures did not reveal any clients, an omission three election law experts said could be problematic if such clients exist.
  
  It's those lies about finances that will see him charged with felonies for making false statements in his filings to run as Congressman.