Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) was bedeviled Friday to 87 months in bastille — added than 7 years afterwards argumentation accusable to accuse of wire artifice and aggravated character theft.
Why it matters: It’s the acme of a years-long adventure in which Santos bedeviled civic account and was ultimately expelled from Congress for his consecutive dishonesty.
- The 87-month book was the best possible, and what prosecutors in the case were seeking. Santos’ attorneys requested a two-year sentence.
- The above congressman, a allegiant apostle of Admiral Trump, has insisted he will not ask the admiral to absolution him as Trump has done with added political allies.
- Santos did not anon acknowledge to an appeal for animadversion from Axios on whether he is absorbed in accepting clemency.
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What they’re saying: “I anticipate it’s appropriate. I anticipate the adjudicator did an agitating job,” said Roberta Reardon, the abettor of the New York State Department of Labor, who delivered a victim ampules account about Santos’ unemployment allowance fraud.
- Jody Kass Finkel, the arch of Concerned Citizens of NY-03, said her acknowledgment to the book was: “Cry me a river.”
- In accession to the 87 months in prison, Santos will additionally face two years of supervised release.
Zoom out: Santos pleaded accusable aftermost year to falsifying attack accounts annal in adjustment to access abutment from the Civic Republican Congressional Committee for his acknowledged 2022 House campaign.
- He initially pleaded accusable to the about two dozen federal bent accuse he was facing, including conspiracy, apocryphal statements, acclaim agenda fraud, money bed-making and annexation of accessible funds.
- As allotment of his appeal deal, Santos accepted to a cogent bulk of the conduct for which he was answerable by prosecutors a change about of his antecedent abiding denials of wrongdoing.
Zoom in: In accession to his bastille time, Santos was additionally ordered aftermost year to pay amends of about $375,000 and cost added than $200,000 in ill-gotten gains.
- Santo’s bidding attrition afterwards entering his accusable plea, but prosecutors acicular to aggressive amusing media posts to altercate that his anguish was a bluff and that he should accept a acrid sentence.
