Santos Loses Appeal, Must Say Who Paid His Bail

CNBC reports:

The identities of the people who guaranteed Rep. George Santos’ $500,000 bond in his criminal fraud case will be revealed Thursday at noon ET, a federal judge ordered Tuesday.

Judge Joanna Seybert’s order in U.S. District Court in Long Island came less than two weeks after the Republican lawmaker’s attorney argued that the bail backers’ identities should be kept private because of the “media frenzy” surrounding the case.

Other sealed documents in the case, including Seybert’s full written order, are also scheduled to be unsealed Thursday, according to a docket entry in Santos’ case. Santos’ lawyer, Joseph Murray, did not immediately respond to CNBC’s request for comment on the judge’s order.

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Under the order, George Santos can move to modify the conditions of his release.

In a filing, his lawyer said the suretors might withdraw if their names were going to be revealed, and that Santos would “rather surrender to pretrial detainment” then have their names released.

— Michael Gold (@migold) June 20, 2023