Derek Myers’ account of how he was hired raises questions about potential ethical improprieties around the New York congressman.
Rep. George SantosDerek Myers, 31, told staff of the House’s ethics subcommittee during an interview Wednesday that while he was trying to get a job in Santos’ congressional office in late January, he sent at least seven $150 payments to Santos’ director of operations, Vish Burra.Myers shared details about the payments, including receipts and text messages, with The Associated Press.
Myers, a former journalist, received a job offer to be a legislative assistant in late January, but lasted less than a week in the position. At the time, Santos told Myers he was concerned by the findings of a background check, which showed Myers had been charged with wiretapping in Ohio after publishing a recording of a trial.
He described finding Burra online, then pushing for a job at Santos’s office out of an earnest desire to help the scandal-scarred representative. In his interview, Myers said Burra didn’t ask him for money, but once requested that he “send more pizza,” which he took to be a reference to the pizza emoji they’d used previously in Venmo subject lines.
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