Anthony D’Esposito Hit With Multiple Calls for Investigation After Affair Allegedly Violated Multiple House Ethics Rules

Over the course of seven months, D'Esposito spent nearly $30,000 of Long Island taxpayers' hard-earned money to keep both women on his payroll

The past two weeks could not have gone worse for Anthony D'Esposito after groundbreaking reporting from The New York Times exposed the vulnerable New York congressman for giving his fiancée's daughter and the woman he was having an affair with jobs on his congressional payroll.

Following a complaint from the Congressional Integrity Project filed the day after the Times article was published, Newsday is now reporting that D'Esposito has been hit with a second formal request for an investigation by watch-dog group End Citizens United. The complaint comes as Nassau County residents gathered to demand an expedited investigation into D'Esposito's conduct.

According to ECU President Tiffany Muller, "Representative D'Esposito has turned his office into a playground for corruption and unethical behavior."

Meanwhile, "the GOP's new Long Island headache " has spent weeks avoiding and lying to voters, claiming "there was nothing done incorrectly" before "categorically" denying the allegations entirely hours later. The Nassau County GOP reportedly knows that D'Esposito's alleged corruption is a major liability.

DCCC Spokesperson Ellie Dougherty:
"Anthony D'Esposito has lied, duped, and abused Nassau County families' taxpayer dollars for personal gain at every turn. Voters deserve to know what else their self-serving congressman is hiding from them."

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Newsday: Democrat-backed PAC files ethics complaint against Anthony D'Esposito
Laura Figueroa Hernandez | October 8, 2024

• A Democratic-aligned political action committee filed an ethics complaint against Rep. Anthony D'Esposito on Tuesday, calling for an investigation over whether he violated rules governing lawmakers when he hired his fiancee's daughter and an alleged paramour for taxpayer-funded jobs in his district office.

• The complaint, filed by End Citizens United, a Washington-based political action committee, comes just over two weeks after The New York Times published an article noting D'Esposito, a freshman House Republican from Island Park, hired the two women to work at his Garden City office.

• In the six-page complaint, Tiffany Muller, the president of the organization, urges the nonpartisan office to investigate whether D'Esposito violated House rules barring the employment of relatives when he hired Tessa Lark, the daughter of his longtime fiancee Cynthia Lark, to work in his district office.

• The complaint also contends D'Esposito may have violated House ethics rules governing behavior by allegedly having an affair with a married woman, Devin Faas, and later giving her a part-time job in the district office. The complaint also raises questions as to whether Faas indeed worked for his office given her employment as a secretary with the Town of Hempstead at the time.

• "Representative D'Esposito has turned his office into a playground for corruption and unethical behavior," Muller said in a statement to Newsday. "We urge the Office of Congressional Ethics to immediately launch an investigation and hold him accountable for these apparent violations."

• The Congressional Integrity Project, a political group that targets Republican lawmakers with alleged ethical violations, previously filed a complaint with the ethics office a day after the Times published its Sept. 23 article on D'Esposito.

• Payroll reports obtained by Newsday confirm that Faas received $7,400 in wages from April 1, 2023, through July 21, 2023, and Tessa Lark received $20,258 in wages from Jan. 3, 2023, to June 30, 2023.

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