George Santos faces 13 federal charges including fraud, money laundering, and lying to Congress.

Republican Congressman George Santos has pleaded not guilty to 13 federal charges, including fraud related to Covid-19 unemployment benefits, misusing campaign funds, and lying about his personal finances on House disclosure reports. Santos has been released on a $500,000 bond and ordered to surrender his passport. The charges inject fresh uncertainty into the political future of Santos, a freshman congressman whose astonishing pattern of lies and fabrications stunned even hardened politicos and led top Democrats and some New York Republicans to call for his resignation earlier this year.