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George Santos, the former member of the New York disgrace congress, went to a federal prison on Friday to start serving his sentence of more than seven years for fraud.
Santos reported to the Federal Bureau of Prisons of the Federal Correctional Institution of Fairton, New Jersey.
The former member of the Long Island Republican Congress was sentenced in April to 87 months in prison And he was ordered to report at 2 p.m. on July 25. He was also ordered to pay $ 373,949.97 to fines and restitution.
The federal prisons office did not reveal where Santos would serve her sentence before she started. The office says that the locations are determined according to the level of supervision, medical needs or programming, safety and proximity measures with a person’s residence.
Santos told his disciples that he was planning to ask for a holder in prison before his sentence.
Why is George Santos going to prison?
The former member of the Congress pleaded guilty to federal accusations of wire and identity fraud to exaggerate or lie on certain parts of his background To defraud voters and donors from the 3rd district of the New York Congress.
Federal said in their memo of determining the penalty that he “laughed at our electoral system” and used a “completely fictitious biography to get rich and capture one of the largest offices”.
His offenses were going to bring a seller to forge a diploma from the Baruch College to the presentation of false financial disclosure at the congress claiming that he was a multimillionaire. He was also accused of having simulated donations on behalf of parents, creating a false non -profit organization to request donations and manage a credit card fraud program to fly to elderly and cognitive donors.
Santos then passed these donations to luxury articles De Hermès and Ferragamo, Botox, a payment of rent and other accommodation in Atlantic City and Hamptons, according to campaign files, banking files and other documents published by the Chamber’s Ethics Committee.
“From the moment he declared his candidacy for Congress, Santos took advantage of his campaign for his own enrichment and financial profit”, American lawyer for the Oriental District of New York John Durham said after the conviction. “He did so by targeting specific supporters and voters. He considered them easy marks and he made them victims of his fraud.”
Santos asks Trump another chance
The United States Ministry of Justice wanted Santos to serve the maximum of 87 months in prisonWhile his lawyers were only looking for 24 months. Santos had asked for the judge for leniency And read a statement before the court, admitting that he betrayed his supporters and the institutions he has sworn to serve.
After the conviction, he posted a long declaration on X, which reads in part: “I believe that 7 years is a sentence too politically influenced and I implore that President Trump gives me a chance to prove that I am more than the errors I made. Respectfully, George Santos.”
The White House said this week that it “would not comment on the existence or non-existence” of a request for a leniency.
Who is George Santos? Fast and falling into the republican party
Santos, 37, Helped the GOP to secure the house in mid-term elections of 2022. But before He was sworn in powerher Lies began to crash.
The first accusations were filed against him in May 2023, with more to follow in October. The Chamber’s ethics committee then published a scathing 56 pages report detail the extent of his misconduct.
Santos was deleted from the Congress of weeks laterbecome just The sixth member of the house be expelled in the history of the country.
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