George Santos, the former member of the Congress and a serial liar who pleaded guilty of fraud and was expelled from the House of Representatives, was sentenced yesterday to more than seven years in prison. Santos pleaded guilty last August for a wire fraud chief and an aggravated identity manager. As part of his plea case, he also admitted other crimes, including fraud to financing the campaign, unemployment insurance fraud and false declarations in the House of Representatives.
George Santos in the House of Representatives (Credit: AP / Alex Brandon)
Santos was a member of the New York Republican Congress. He was elected for the first time in 2022, when he “overthrew” a district formerly held by Democrats. Shortly after his election, reports began to emerge that he had lied several times during his campaign on his personal and professional history, including where he went to school, where he had worked and his ethnic inheritance.
These lies – or as Santos have said, “embellish his curriculum vitae” – led to a political scandal for the member of the first -year congress but were not criminals, as I explained in this post at the time:
Lies, crimes and politics: the George Santos affair
The career of the Congress of the first year representative George Santos (R.-NY) is parting. Shortly after being elected last November, overthrowing a crucial democratic seat with the Republicans, the New York Times reported that Santos seems to have lied several times on its academic history, its work story and its religious and ethnic inheritance. That…
Shortly after Santos was elected, however, more serious and criminal driving allegations began to emerge. He was finally charged in May 2023. Prosecutors later returned an indictment replaced by accusing Santos with a total of twenty-three charges for four different fraud regimes. On December 1, 2023, the Chamber voted to expel it from the Congress. He pleaded guilty on August 19, 2024.
If you want an examination of allegations and accusations in the indictment, I broke everything here:
Unpacking the accusation acts replaced by Santos
Last week, Federal Prosecutors in Brooklyn rendered an indictment replaced against the member of the New York Republican Congress, George Santos. Santos obtained notoriety for the first time shortly after the congress elections in 2022, when the New York Times reported that it seemed to have lied several times on its academic history, its work story and its religious and ethnic …
The accusation of thread fraud to which Santos pleaded guilty was based on its falsification of the campaign financing reports filed with the Federal Electoral Commission. In collaboration with his campaign treasurer, Santos listed the false donations of family and family members and a personal loan to his campaign that he has never done, in order to qualify for additional substantial funding from the National Committee of the Republican Congress. Identity flight fees were based on Santos using information on donor credit cards to his campaign to make unauthorized costs, then using money for various personal expenses, including creator clothes and botox injections.
The 87 -month sentence of Santos complies with what is recommended by federal directives on determining the sentence and was requested by prosecutors. He must also pay around $ 375,000 in return. The judge gave it until July 25 to go to the prison and start serving his mandate.
Santos is a republican and a great supporter of Trump who approved Trump’s “big lie” in the 2020 elections. This would seem to make him a main candidate for presidential forgiveness, which Trump easily gave other political and supporters. On the other hand, one of the victims of Santos’ fraud was the republican party, while perhaps it cuts against him.
There is apparently no signs of forgiveness in progress, at least not yet. But I will not be surprised at all if Trump forgives him before the start of his sentence, wrongly affirming that Santos was only another victim of the Ministry of Justice supposedly “armed” by President Biden. Stay listening.
