Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) says that newly expelled Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) personally defrauded him and his mother by charging their credit cards without authorization.

“Late yesterday on the floor I alluded to a personal impact of Rep. Santos’s conduct,” Miller wrote in a last-minute email to colleagues before Santos’s expulsion vote Friday morning. “Earlier this year I learned that the Santos campaign had charged my personal credit card — and the personal credit card of my Mother — for contribution amounts that exceeded FEC limits.”

Miller said neither he nor his mother approved the charges or were aware of them, and they have spent “tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees” in the aftermath.

“I’ve seen a list of roughly 400 other people to whom the Santos campaign allegedly did this,” Miller wrote in the email obtained by The Hill. “I believe some other members of this conference might have had the same experience.”

The Ohio Republican said he was sharing his experience with others “because of the significance of the question before us.”....

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