George Santos pleads guilty to two corruption charges

[thewayne]

As expected, 11-month Representative and serial fabulist Santos produced guilty pleas in court today, and interestingly, also produced a seemingly sincere apology to his constituents for his behavior. Now, maybe it was a show for the judge to try to get a lighter sentence, but he's facing some serious time: "Santos is set to be sentenced on Feb. 7. He could face as much as 22 years in prison, and waived his right to appeal any sentence less than 95 months - just under eight years - as part of a plea deal with federal prosecutors."

Eight years! Santos plead to "one count of wire fraud and one count of aggravated identity theft, the latter carrying a mandatory two-year prison sentence", so I'm not quite sure how the 95 months works into this. I guess we'll find out in February.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/expelled-former-rep-santos-plead-guilty-corruption-charges-source-says-2024-08-19/

Comments

[thewayne]

Processes.  Takes time to select the appropriate prison to send them to.  You want to avoid housing non-violent offenders with the real baddies, have to make sure cells are available, best if you don't send them all the way across the country, etc.  Paperwork never flows fast, and the people who do the processing have existing case loads because there are never enough people to do all the paperwork because of budget cuts.

[disneydream06]

Well, he's from NY, send him to Sing Sing. hehehe.........