Santos Pleads Not Guilty, Trial Set For September 2024

NBC News reports:

Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., pled not guilty Friday to additional charges in a superseding indictment, including allegations of identity theft and transferring money to his personal bank account from a supporter’s credit card. U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert set a trial date for Santos of Sept. 9 of next year, which is expected to last a month. His next status conference is scheduled for this Dec. 12. Santos did not comment to reporters on the way out of the courthouse.

A small group of protestors stood outside the building in Central Islip, N.Y., on Friday waving signs that said “Expel Santos now” and “Santos stole NY.” Santos is accused of “stealing people’s identities and making charges on his own donors’ credit cards without their authorization, lying to the FEC and, by extension, the public about the financial state of his campaign,” the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York,

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