Trump commuted Santos’s seven-year sentence for fraud and identity theft after he had served less than three months
Disgraced former US House member George Santos was released from prison in New Jersey late on Friday, hours after the Republican’s seven-year, three-month prison sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft was commuted by Donald Trump.
An X statement attributed to Santos’s lawyer, Joseph Murray, called Trump “the greatest president in US history”.
“God bless President Donald J Trump!” Murray’s post also said.
The post credited the influence of several Republican political figures besides Trump for Santos’s release, which came less than three months into his sentence. That included US House member Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia, who Murray said “fought like a lion” for Santos’s release. Others were House members Lauren Boebert and Anna Paulina Luna – as well as former congressman Matt Gaetz, justice department and bureau of prisons officials, and deputy US attorney general Todd Blanche.
