Federal prosecutors are seeking a seven-year prison sentence for disgraced former Congressman George Santos.
In a 26-page court memo filed April 4, the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of New York called Santos a “pathological liar and fraudster,” who had committed “unparalleled crimes” and had “made a mockery” of the election system.
“From his creation of a wholly fictitious biography to his callous theft of money from elderly and impaired donors, Santos’ unrestrained greed and voracious appetite for fame enabled him to exploit the very system by which we select our representatives,” the office wrote.
A gay Republican, Santos shocked the political world in 2022 when he won the house seat in New York’s third congressional district. The victory was short-lived, however, when it was soon discovered Santos had fabricated much of his biography — even claiming he had lost four employees in the Pulse Nightclub massacre.
In a post on X, Santos responded to the Justice Department’s memo by deploying a whataboutism strategy.
“The DOJ wants me to go to prison for 87 months while they let sex traffickers walk freely, they give drug lords slaps on the wrist and most importantly refuse to prosecute the cabal of pedophiles running around in every power structure in the world including the US Government,” he wrote.
Santos, 36, is scheduled to be sentenced on April 25.
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