The Department of Justice is looking for an 87-month sentence for previous New york city Rep. George Santos after he pleaded guilty to wire scams and worsened identity theft in August of in 2015.
” Santos’s history and qualities are bothering in the extreme. Santos is a pathological phony and scammer,” the 26-page sentencing memo from the department states. “For many years, Santos produced and promoted a fictionalized bio, one that portrayed himself as an extremely informed, separately rich, effective business person, all predicated on a stack of lies.”
Santos, a Republican politician, was chosen in the 2022 midterms by turning a Democratic district covering parts of Long Island and Queens. Nevertheless, his life story was rapidly discovered to have actually been primarily produced. His claims that he operated at leading companies on Wall Street and had actually participated in a specific college were exposed, and the funding of his project dealt with questioning. Santos was expelled from Congress in December 2023, after just 11 months as an agent. He was just the 6th member to be expelled; the other 5 were members of the confederacy.
” The federal government’s examination exposed comprehensive proof of Santos’s produced past,” the sentencing memo includes. “He incorrectly asserted associations with age-old organizations and companies in a negative effort to compromise their track records to reinforce his own.”
As he pleaded guilty in August, Santos confessed that he deceived citizens and donors, and took practically a lots identities, consisting of those of his own household, in order to make project contributions to himself. He acknowledged that he took charge card info for individual usage which he lied to the Federal Election Commission.
Santos stated at the time that aspiration had actually impacted his judgment which he was “flooded with deep remorse.” In a handle district attorneys, Santos accepted pay practically $580,000 in fines.
” The volume of Santos’s lies and his remarkable pattern of dishonesty speaks with his high probability of reoffending and the concomitant requirement to eliminate him from the neighborhood he has actually consistently taken advantage of,” the sentencing memo states.
In January, Santos asked a New york city judge to postpone his sentencing on federal scams charges till the summertime to enable him to make more episodes of his podcast, Trousers on Fire, to settle the majority a million dollars in fines. At the time, district attorneys stated the title of the podcast was a “tone-deaf and unrepentant recommendation to the criminal activities he dedicated.”
In Friday’s sentencing memo, district attorneys stated Santos was guilty of “craven efforts to utilize his lawbreaking as a springboard to star and riches.”
District attorneys argued in the memo that Santos worked to “monetize his criminal charges” by signing up with Cameo, the platform where you can purchase individual videos from celebs, from which they declared that he has actually made more than $350,000. The memo likewise keeps in mind that Santos has actually been paid a minimum of $200,000 after contracting with a documentary filmmaker.
“Even when challenged with his lies and scams, Santos continued to recidivate and intensify, his criminality growing bolder and more adventurous gradually,” the district attorneys argue in the sentencing memo.
The sentencing is set to happen on April 25.