Santos pleaded guilty to a felony wire fraud in August 2024, exacerbating the charge of identity theft. He filed a false campaign finance report and admitted to incorrectly charging the donor’s credit card.
George Santos has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison
George Santos was sentenced to seven years and three months in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud in 2024.
George Santos, a Republican from New York, surrenders to federal custody on July 25th and is expected to serve his sentence after convictions of wire fraud and identity theft.
In April, Santos was sentenced to seven years and three months. Santos was also ordered to pay more than $370,000 in reparations and confiscated an additional $200,000.
“Well, the Darlings… the curtains are down, the spotlights are dark, and the rhinestones are packed in. From the halls of Congress to the cable news confusion, what kind of ride was it! Was it always messy? It’s always charming.
“To my supporters: you made this wild political cabaret worthwhile,” he wrote. “To my critics: Thank you for the free press. I might leave the stage (for now), but trust me, I won’t really come out of the legend.”
Santos came to Washington as a larger character than life that some of the GOP pointed out as the future of the Republican Party. He was still immersed in his newly discovered notoriety, even after he began unraveling most of the life stories that news reports used to win votes.
Santos described him as a successful business owner with experience in the prestigious Wall Street company. In fact, he struggled financially and never worked for most of the companies he claimed to be related to.
He claimed to be a volleyball star, and many times from universities he had never attended, he called himself a “proud American Jew” before claiming that the Brazilian mother’s family meant being “Jewish” because it had a Jewish background. The misinformation led to Congress and criminal investigations about how he funded the campaign.
Santos pleaded guilty to a felony wire fraud in August 2024, exacerbating the charge of identity theft. As part of the plea, he filed a false campaign finance report, claiming the donor’s credit card without approval, and granting fraudulent receipt of unemployment benefits, among other acts that began several years ago before he ran for Congress.
A home ethical investigation found that he “strickenly sought to exploit every aspect of his home candidate for his own personal financial interests.”
Santos represented Queens and parts of Long Island for 11 months.
He was banished from Congress by a bipartisan vote after the release of the House Ethics Report.
