Trump leads the previous term of US Rep. George Santos in federal fraud case

New York (AP) – President Donald Trump said Friday that he had done the post-US Rep.

Joseph Murray, one of Santos’ attorneys, told The Associated Press on Friday that the order was issued at a law firm in Fairton, New Jersey, and was greeted outside the venue by his family.

The New York Republican was sentenced in April after admitting last year to defrauding donors and stealing the identities of 11 people — including members of his own family — to make donations to his campaign.

He reported to FCI Fairton on July 25 and was held in a minimum security camp with less than 50 inmates.

“George Santos was a man who was a ‘tough guy,’ but there are many rogues in our country across the country who are forced to serve seven years in prison,” Trump said on his social media platform. He said he had just signed a waiver, releasing George Santos from prison, immediately. “

“Good luck George, have a good life!” Trump said.

Santos’ account on X, which served its almost 84 days in prison, also apologized for the screenshot of the truth of Trump Post Friday.

During his time in the press, Santos has been a regular columnist for a local Long Island newspaper, where he has complained bitterly about prison conditions.

In his latest letter, however, he made a direct appeal, revealing his approach to his diet in the agenda of the President and the Republican party.

“Sir, I appeal to your sense of justice and humanity – the same qualities that inspired millions of Americans to believe in you,” he wrote humbly as he looked at unusual pain, “allowed me the opportunity to return to my family, my friends and my community.”

Santos’ departure is the latest high-profile move by a coalition of Republican politicians since taking back the White House in January.

In late May, he had apologized before US Rep. Michael Grishm, a New York Republican in 2014 pleaded guilty to embezzling wages and income from a restaurant he ran in Manhattan. He also pardoned former Connecticut Gov. Rowland, whose promising political career was marred by corruption scandals and two prison terms.

But in granting Clemency to Santos, Trump was rewarding a character who has drawn disdain from within his own party.

After becoming the first openly Republican elected to Congress in 2022, Santos served less than a year after it was revealed that he had made up a large part of his life story.

On the campaign trail, Santos claimed to be a successful business consultant with Wall Street Credfolio. But when his resume was checked, Santos finally admitted that he never graduated from Baruch College — or became the breakout star on the Manhattan volleyball team, as he claimed. He had never worked at Citigroup or Goldman Sachs.

He wasn’t even Jewish. Santos insisted that he meant he was ‘Jew-ish’ because his mother’s family had a Jewish background, even though he was raised Catholic.

In fact, at 34, the 34-year-old was struggling financially and faced eviction.

Santos was indicted in 2023 for stealing donors from his campaign, falsifying unemployment benefits and lying to congress about his wealth.

Within months, he was expelled from the US House of Representatives – 105 Republicans joined with Democrats to make Santos the sixth member in the history of the Chamber..

Santos pleaded guilty when he was scheduled to go to trial.

However, his prominent housemate, US Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, who urged the White House to send her just days in prison that the punishment was the punishment was a “burden of the grave” and a product of Judicial Overreach.

Greene was among those excited about Friday’s announcement. But US Rep. Nick Lalota, a Republican who represents part of Long Island and has been an outspoken critic of Santos, said in a social media post that Santos “didn’t indict his warrants” and his warrants.

“He should dedicate the rest of his life to show remorse and make amends to those who have fallen,” said Lalota.

Santos’ wait appears to include not only his prison term, but also any “fines, penalties, targeted releases,” according to a Justice Department attorney.

As part of his guilty plea, Santos had agreed to pay $373,750 in restitution and $205,003 in restitution.

When explaining his reason for turning Santos, Trump said that the lies that Santos told himself were no more than the misleading statement of Sen. Richard Blication – Democrat and Exhievat Crig of his Recority.

Blumenhal apologized 15 years ago by saying that he served in Vietnam, when he started maintaining naval bases during the war.

“This is worse than what George Santos did, and at least Santos had the courage, conviction and wisdom to always vote Republican!” Trump wrote.

The President himself was found guilty in a New York court last year in a case involving the payment of Hush money. He was listening to the case as a victim of political incitement.

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Corresponding reporters Michael R. Sisak in New York and Susan Haigh in Connecticut contributed to this report.