George Santos ‘100%’ denies claim he sexually harassed staffer: ‘It’s comical’
Rachel Schilke
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Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is adamantly denying sexual harassment allegations made by a former staff member who filed an ethics report and a police complaint claiming the representative groped him and did not pay him while he was completing staff-level work.
Santos told CNN’s Kit Maher that he “100%” denies the allegations.
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“It’s comical. Of course, I deny that claim,” he said.
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Derek Myers, 30, filed the report on Friday, stating that during his brief time in Santos’s office in Washington, D.C., the representative allegedly groped him and invited him to his home and out to bars. Myers said that Santos allegedly moved his hand down his thigh before he “proceeded to touch my groin” on Jan. 25, per the complaint.
Myers then claimed that he pushed Santos’s hand away and left the room they were in shortly after. Five days later, Santos called him into his office to discuss his background as a journalist, “matters that had already been disclosed in my conversations with hiring managers from the Congressman’s office prior to my job offer.”
Myers was charged with wiretapping in Ohio last year after publishing an article using audio testimony obtained through a third-party source while working as the editor-in-chief at the Scioto Valley Guardian.
He had signed new-hire paperwork on Jan. 23, but the office rescinded his job offer on Wednesday and did not pay him. Myers wrote that Santos violated ethics in the workplace “by having staff offload work onto the volunteer with the promise of employment.”
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However, Santos said Myers was fired after it was discovered that Myers had secretly recorded a conversation he had with the representative and “violated the trust we had in him.”
The allegations join other scandals that have plagued the congressman as federal and state officials investigate his campaign finance records and potential ethics violations. It was revealed that he lied during his campaign and on his resume about his employment, education, and family history.