Former Rep. George Santos who was humiliated, RN.Y., insisted that he had “accepted full responsibility” for a series of fraud schemes even though there was a “social media blitz” which according to the Federal prosecutor suggested the opposite.
The prosecutor repeated their requests for more than seven years in prison when Santos was sentenced to Friday, saying that his social media posts recently showed that Santos who was 35 years old “still did not repent his crime.”
Santos, in a letter to the judge Tuesday, said he could be “very sorry” and was upset with the recommendation of the Department of Justice about a long prison sentence.
“But say I apologize not to require me to sit calmly while the prosecutor tries to drop the foundation in my head. The correct regret is not mute; that is aware of himself, and it speaks when the penalty scale jumps into that does not make sense,” said Surah Santos.
Former US representative George Santos arrived at Court in Central Islip, NY, August 19, 2024.
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“Ironically, the same political ambition that sustains my own mistakes now seems to trigger government outreach in this case,” wrote Hey. “You will think they might have learned something from the person they chose to be prosecuted very hard!”
Santos is a selective chart to suggest that government penalty recommendations are not in accordance with other political prosecutors, quoting former Illinois representatives Jesse L. Jackson Jr. sentenced to 30 months for abuse $ 750,000 in campaign funds or former tax Michael Grimm who was sentenced to eight months for hiding $ 900,000 in wages and $ 900,000 taxes.
Prosecutors accused Santos, with the help of a former Treasurer of the Nancy Marks campaign, falsifying the submission of the Federal Election Commission, making donor contributions and puffing out the total fundraising to meet the $ 250,000 threshold needed to join the “Young Guns” National Congress Committee. Marks pleaded guilty and waited for sentences in June.
When it was told that he had not yet reached the NRCC benchmark, Santos sent an SMS to a colleague, “We will do this a little different. I get it.”
The “different” approach includes sending fake contributions associated with family members, fictitious individuals and even identities stolen from the supporters of the elderly, according to the submission.
Santos pleaded guilty to wire fraud and theft of identity that was worsened in August 2024. He was released from the congress in December 2023.