BREAKING: George Santos Sentenced To Seven Years

The New York Times reports:

George Santos, the former Republican congressman from New York whose outlandish fabrications and criminal schemes fueled an unforeseen rise and spectacular fall, was sentenced to 87 months in federal prison on Friday.

His sentence will bring an end, or at least a pause, to a turbulent period in which Mr. Santos was catapulted from anonymity to political and pop cultural infamy, a national spotlight that, even when negative, he often relished more than rejected.

Standing before a judge in Federal District Court in Central Islip, N.Y., a hushed Mr. Santos, 36, seemed far removed from the swaggering lawmaker whose lies — that he was a college volleyball star and a Wall Street financier with ties to the Holocaust and Sept. 11, to name a few — turned him into a national punchline and led to mocking impersonations on “Saturday Night Live.”

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🚨🚨🚨 MAJOR BREAKING:

Former Republican Congressman from New York, George Santos, has just been sentenced to 87 months – SEVEN YEARS IN PRISON – by federal court Judge Joanna Seybert after pleading guilty of wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

Good riddance. pic.twitter.com/DSIPpP0boa

— CALL TO ACTIVISM (@CalltoActivism) April 25, 2025

George Santos in 2020: “I get a lot of pleasure in seeing people pay for their crimes in jail.”

Santos was just sentenced to over 7 years in jail. pic.twitter.com/jrFEgugnDB

— PatriotTakes 🇺🇸 (@patriottakes) April 25, 2025

Seven Years and a Pardon
Performed by George Santos pic.twitter.com/39NKi7dPCp

— Staff Sergeant Johnson (@Colonel_Myway) April 25, 2025