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Facing a 23-count fraud indictment, Santos became just the sixth member of the House, and the first non-Confederate or convicted felon, expelled from Congress.
“Throughout our careers, we often disagreed. And often strongly,” the U.S. president said, hours after U.S. Secretary of State Blinken released a much heftier statement.
In addition to selling interest in the basketball team, the Jewish billionaire will reportedly step down from the hit investor reality show “Shark Tank.”
The vote split the Democratic caucus, with 90, including Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), joining Republicans in telling President Biden to re-freeze the money.
“He was a visionary, and a brilliant man,” the attorney and Harvard Law School professor emeritus Alan Dershowitz told JNS of his longtime friend.
The course, which focused on loss, happened to come a few days after Hamas’s Oct. 7 terror attacks. It provided comfort to one Jewish deaf woman.
The city body voted to call for a permanent ceasefire in Israel, amid comments from community members promoting conspiracy theories that Israel attacked itself.
All of the other 412 House members who voted supported the Jewish state.
The findings are “the first of many to expose Qatar’s concerning and dangerous access to American security secrets,” said ISGAP executive director Charles Asher Small.
Analysis director Amy McFadden has offered other hints of anti-Israel bias.
“The United States remains committed to exposing elements of the Iranian military and its complicit partners abroad to disrupt this critical source of funds,” said Brian Nelson, a U.S. Treasury official.
Some of the sources of those statistics and the scholars crunching the numbers have been very critical of Israel on social media.
