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george santos His release from prison comes just a day after his lawyer describes what he described as a “traumatic experience” behind bars, which is “decompressing”. President Trump’s decision to commute the sentence of a disgraced former congressman.
Santos, 37, served just 84 days of a more than seven-year sentence he was sentenced in April to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft — charges stemming from his elaborate schemes to defraud donors and steal the identities of 11 people, including family members, to finance his campaign.
Santos’ lawyer Joseph Murray said on Saturdaythat his client is currently decompressing And refused to tell where he was staying.
“It’s not a good time, I just came here, I’m meeting with him and we just want to let him decompress a little bit,” attorney Joseph Murray told the newspaper.
“He was released last night. Let’s let him go – let’s respect his and his family’s privacy and let them decompress a bit. It’s a traumatic experience as you can imagine.”
Santos, who was sentenced in April, had been housed at the minimum-security prison camp at FCI Fairton, New Jersey, since July 25.
Less than three months later, he was released late Friday, just hours after Trump announced on Twitter that he had commuted the former congressman’s sentence.
“George Santos was ‘rogue’ to some extent, but there are plenty of rogues across our country who are not forced to serve seven years in prison,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He praised Santos for having “the courage, conviction and intelligence to always vote Republican.”
The former president also claimed that Santos “has been in solitary confinement for a long time and, by all accounts, has been horrifically mistreated.”
Santos had been in solitary confinement since August after reportedly receiving death threats. Earlier in the week, Santos had made a public appeal for mercy from Trump.
“I have faced my share of consequences, and I take full responsibility for my actions,” Santos wrote in a letter to the president. South Shore Press, “But no person, no matter their flaws, deserves to be lost in the system, forgotten and ignored, suffering more punishment than justice demands.”
Once hailed as a rising Republican star, he was expelled from Congress in 2023 after admitting to numerous fabrications about his personal and professional life – from claiming Jewish heritage and a Wall Street career to falsely claiming that his mother survived the 9/11 attacks.
Santos pleaded guilty last August Defrauding voters, stealing credit card information, and lying to the Federal Election Commission to raise money for his congressional campaign. He was ordered to pay a fine of $580,000 including restitution.
His commutation adds to Trump’s growing list of controversial acts of clemency, including pardons and sentence reductions for the Jan. 6 rioters and Paul Walczak, a former nursing home executive convicted of tax crimes whose mother raised millions for Trump’s campaigns.