Prosecutors are looking for more than seven years in prison due to the former United States. George Santos After acknowledged that he was guilty of federal fraud charges and stealing identity.
The American lawyer for the Eastern region in New York on Friday argued that he was justified for an important punishment because “unparalleled republican crimes” in New York have mocked the country’s election system.
The office wrote: “From the creation of a completely fictional biography to stealing harsh money from the elderly and weak donors, Santos’s unrestricted greed and appetite for fame for fame enabled him to exploit the system that we choose with our representatives.”
Prosecutors also argued that Santos was “unlike and united” for years, and he rejected the prosecution as a “charming chase” and refused to resign from Congress where his lies network was exposed.
They said that his allegations of remorse after acknowledged that he was “Range Holo” and suggested that he had a “high possibility to return the introduction” given that he had not lost any of his illegal gains or pay any of his victims.
Santos’ lawyers, in an e -mail to Associated Press, rejected a seven -year proposal to be “ridiculous and unfounded”, saying he seemed to be “designed to overcome a man already bearing his actions.”
In the memorandum of issuing judgments on Friday, they rejected the idea that Santos would return to criminal behavior, noting that he has no previous criminal record and also provides “decisive” support for his sister and her little daughter.
They have argued for a period of two years, which is the mandatory minimum of the prison sentence to steal the strict identity.
Lawyers maintain such a sentence in line with those who have been delivered to Former American deputy Jesse Jackson Junior. And other political figures facing similar financial crimes.
They also described Santos’s cooperation in a separate federal investigation in the Texas man who tried to reduce nearly one million dollars by demonstrating as a political fixed fixed to destroy evidence in his issues.
Lawyers wrote: “This sentence, along with the important side consequences that Mr. Santos has already suffered – including the loss of his seat in Congress and public insult – will send a clear message that this behavior will not be tolerated.”
A federal judge in Long Island is scheduled to decide the Santos penalty during a court hearing on April 25.
The Republican, who was one day, who represented parts of Queens and Long Island, served almost a year in office before his colleagues in the House of Representatives in 2023 served only that the Sixth Congress was expelled in the history of the room.
Santos’s political demise came after revealing that he had colored a lot of his life story, which led Questions About how the political unknown funded his winning campaign.
The 36 -year -old throws himself as a wealthy businessman who graduated from the higher colleges, worked in the prestigious Wall Street companies and held a valuable real estate portfolio. In fact, he was struggling financially and confronting the evacuation.
Santos I confess In August in which he deceived voters, tricked donors and stole the identities of nearly ten people, including members of his family, to make donations for his campaign in Congress.
He was scheduled to be sentenced at first in February, but a judge gave him a Three months Repieve To reach more than half a million dollars in court fines.
As part of the guilt acknowledgment, Santos agreed to pay nearly $ 375,000 as compensation and $ 205,000 in confiscation.
Santos lawyers said at the time that he has more than $ 1,000 of liquid assets and needs more time to build a newly launched podcast “pants on fire” in order to start paying the debt.
Public prosecutors maintain that Santos has benefited greatly from his evil, on the pretext that he received more than $ 800,000 from Cameo video sharing site It is a new documentary since its expulsion from Congress.
Two Santos campaign employees also admitted guilty on federal charges regarding the campaign financing plan.
Sam Millie, the previous donation campaign, was He was sentenced to March For one year and one day in the federal prison. He admitted that the character of the high -level Congress assistant and imposes credit cards for donors without permission while lifting the money in the campaign of Santos.
Nancy MarxThe former Santos Campaign Treasurer admitted that a false campaign was filled with fake donors and a fake personal loan of $ 500,000 from Santos himself.
The decoration helped the campaign hit the thresholds of collecting the necessary donations to qualify to obtain financial support from the National Republican Party. Signs are scheduled to be judged in May.