George Santos to enter a guilty plea in Federal court Monday!

[thewayne]

According to a BBC report citing US media reports, Santos will be entering guilty plea(s) in court on Monday. He is "facing 23 federal felony charges that allege wire fraud, money laundering and the misuse of campaign funds", but it is not known how many he will be pleading to. BBC reports that he was facing the possibility of 20 years in prison if convicted on all charges.

I suspect they'd reached the discovery phase where the prosecution reveals all their evidence to the defense, and George's attorneys finally convinced him that he is well and truly sunk, and if he doesn't plead he's going down for the full twenty. And he finally had his 'Come To Jesus' moment and decided that if he doesn't want to be a much older man, he's gonna have to cop a plea.

ETA: two people associated with Santos' office/campaign have pled guilty to various charges of fraud and presumably flipped. The prosecution estimated the trial would take about three weeks, and juror selection was to start in about two weeks.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3ej54gp4q1o

Comments

[disneydream06]

Wonder what he will do to make a circus of that? :o
Hugs, Jon

[thewayne]

I don't recall him making much of a circus of his preliminary pleading hearings, we'll see.  His political career is sunk regardless.

[disneydream06]

Didn't he try or threaten to try and run again?

[thewayne]

He did, early after he got expelled from Congress.  But I think those ambitions are long behind him.

[disneydream06]

Oh Darn.....

[silveradept]

He did indeed enter a plea, and there is possible significant jail time and fines from the plea agreement that happened. I think we may have seen the last of this particular person for a while. I'm pretty sure he's not on the favored list of the Republican nominee.

[thewayne]

I read he's looking at two years, but we won't know until next February.  I think he's probably done as a politician.