In December 2023, Representative George Santos (R-NY) was expelled from the U.S. House of Representatives, as my colleague Joe Cunningham wrote at the time, “by an overwhelming majority”:
Congressman George Santos, the controversial Republican at the center of a major fraud scandal, was overwhelmingly expelled from the House of Representatives.
In a vote of 311 to 114 (with two members voting present and eight abstaining), Santos lost all but two Democrats and about half of the Republican conference.
The vote took place after it became known, among other things, that not only the Santos campaign team had allegedly committed voter fraud, but also some of Santos’ own colleagues.
Cunningham also pointed out that Santos is only the third congressman to be expelled from the House since the civil war.
BREAKING NEWS: George Santos expelled from the House of Representatives
At the end of December, Santos announced during a Spaces conversation on X that he was writing an exposé and would continue to support Republicans and former President Donald Trump in the 2024 elections.
George Santos announces comeback and exposes corruption on Capitol Hill in an exposé book
Just recently, on Tuesday, RedState’s Susie Moore noted in her Morning Minute column that the former congressman had appeared for a pretrial hearing on the federal charges that same day, writing that “Santos faces 23 counts of campaign finance fraud.”
But it seems that the process is over before it even begins. accordingly a story that Talking Points Memo uncovered slow Friday. The NY Times article points out that when Santos was indicted in 2023, he pleaded not guilty to all counts:
Santos, 36, was first charged with 13 counts in May 2023 after federal prosecutors investigated a series of financial crimes he was accused of. Ten more counts followed in October.
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Santos, whose trial on 23 stern crimes was scheduled to begin Sept. 9, could still change his mind. But this week, two lawyers representing several witnesses in the case were told by federal prosecutors that Santos had decided to plead guilty.
Two other people with knowledge of the plans confirmed that he intends to plead guilty on Monday; one of the people said Santos is expected to give a statement in court admitting his crimes. The terms of his expected guilty plea and the punishment he could face were not clear.
Public court records show that an in-person hearing was scheduled for Monday afternoon at the request of prosecutors and Mr. Santos’s lawyers. The purpose of the hearing was not explained in the records. Mr. Santos and one of his lawyers, Joseph Murray, did not respond to requests for comment.
Since this is a developing story, RedState will provide updates as they become available.
