George Santos, the Republican congressman from New York who made up parts of his resume, criminally charged

Republican Congressman George Santos on April 27 at the Capitol in Washington.ANNA MONEYMAKER (Getty Images via AFP)

Federal prosecutors have filed criminal charges against New York Rep. George Santos, the Republican who won a seat in November's midterm elections and whose staggering pattern of lies and fabrications has stunned the public. The news has been advanced by CNN, which cites three people close to the case.

Santos is expected to appear Wednesday in federal court in the Eastern District of New York, where the charges are reportedly filed, though a spokesman for the prosecutor's office declined to comment. Spokesmen for the Brooklyn prosecutor's office, the Justice Department and the FBI, as well as the congressman's lawyer, also declined to comment.

The exact nature of the charges is not yet known, but the FBI and Justice Department public integrity prosecutors in New York and Washington have been examining allegations of false statements in Santos' campaign finance documents, as well as, likely, others for falsifying or fabricating details of his academic and professional resume. Santos was elected representing a district that includes parts of Long Island and Queens. It has been investigated in multiple jurisdictions as well as by the House Ethics Committee.

Prominent Democrats, joined by some New York Republicans, have called on Santos to resign over allegations ranging from criminal behavior during the election campaign, such as tax collection fraud, to small personal lies to whitewash or inflate his resume that date back more than a decade.

Seeing himself in the firing, the congressman stepped aside at the end of January from the two committees of the House of Representatives that he had had to integrate, while the media continued to take out their dirty laundry, some as creepy as allegedly defrauding a veteran of the Iraq war the money raised in networks to treat his dying dog. He also fabulated about an alleged assault suffered by him and his partner in broad daylight in midtown Manhattan. A former roommate diagnosed his behavior by pointing out that Santos suffers from "delusions of grandeur," the same ones that made him invent a millionaire patrimony, a long-suffering family history as a descendant of Holocaust survivors or an academic training superior to the studies he took.

Santos has been charged with violating campaign finance rules, violating federal conflict-of-interest laws and staging credit card fraud, among other crimes, including one of the latest is the alleged theft of a dog from an Amish farm. The congressman has admitted to making some misleading claims about his education and financial situation, but he continues to deny the most serious allegations and has flatly refused to turn over his congressional act.

From a legal point of view, the charges do not affect his status as a congressman. Nothing in the Constitution's requirements for holding that elected office prevents criminally charged or convicted persons from exercising their functions, except for the 14th Amendment's prohibitions on certain treason conduct committed after the representative has been sworn into office, CNN reports.

However, if he is convicted of a crime that could carry a sentence of two or more years in prison, the rules of the Chamber order him not to participate in the votes in the chamber or in those of the committees, such as the two from which, as a precautionary measure, Santos withdrew during the investigation.

Santos leaves a trail of fabulations behind him, ranging from Brazil from his maternal family to Holocaust survivors and their descendants, many of whom live in the district for which he was elected and have asked little less than his head for fabulating with such a serious event, because they feel cheated about their alleged Jewish ties. He has also raised blisters among the LGTBIQ collective, for the double life he led for years married to a woman to cover up his homosexuality.

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