Prosecutors are looking for more than seven years in prison because of the former disgraceful Congress 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: “He lied to the employees of his campaign, his supporters, his supposed work owner and his colleagues in Congress, and the American public.” “Whoever creates a completely fake biography to stealing harsh money from the elderly and weak donors, enabled Santos’s unrestricted appetite and extreme appetite from fame from the exploitation of the system that we choose with our representatives.”
The office also argued that Santos was “unlike and united” for years, and he refused to claim as a “charming chase” and refused to resign from Congress where his network of lies was exposed.
Even after adopting guilt before the trial, the representatives of the prosecution argued that his allegations of remorse “Range Holo”, noting that he had not lost any of his illegal gains or paid any of his victims.
Representatives of the prosecution wrote: “The size of Santos lies and his exceptional pattern of betrayal of trust talks about the possibility of re -introducing it and the accompanying need to remove it from the society that has been victims over and over again.”
The 87 -month sentence proposed by the public prosecutors is the instructions of the court in such cases. They said that this would be nearly four to five years behind bars, in addition to a penalty of no less than two years to steal strict identity.
Santos lawyers did not immediately respond to an email seeking a comment on Friday, the deadline for both sides to submit their ruling notes to the court.
A federal judge in Long Island is scheduled to hear the arguments and 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 barely for a year in his position before his colleagues in the House of Representatives were expelled in 2023-only the Sixth Congress that 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 MarxSantos, the former campaign treasurer, admitted that she had submitted to federal organizational campaign financing reports full of fake donors and even a 500,000 -dollar personal loan from Santos himself.
Santos decorating helped hitting donation thresholds in the campaign to qualify to obtain financial support from the National Republican Party.
Signs are scheduled to be judged in May.
