Mendacity former Rep. George Santos is “not genuinely remorseful” forward of his sentencing on federal crimes after he made unhinged social media feedback concerning the Justice Division this month, prosecutors argued Thursday.
The disgraced ex-lawmaker is staring down greater than seven years in jail after he allegedly lied to Congress about his wealth, unlawfully collected unemployment funds and used marketing campaign coffers on lavish private purchases together with designer garments, Botox injections and holidays.
But Santos appeared extra keen to ding the DOJ earlier than and even after the feds referred to as out Santos for his social media rant.
Federal prosecutors identified the New York Republican referred to as the federal authorities a “cabal of pedophiles” and claimed the feds “had a hard on” for him relationship again to December 2022, when he wasn’t in workplace but.
“No matter how hard the DOJ comes for me, they are mad because they will NEVER break my spirit,” Santos, 36, tweeted on April 4, per the DOJ submitting.
Federal prosecutors stated he additionally whined he was a sufferer of prosecutorial overreach in one other put up, regardless of tearfully pleading responsible to wire fraud and aggravated identification theft final December.
“Put plainly, Santos is not genuinely remorseful, despite accepting responsibility as part of his allocution,” the US Lawyer for the Japanese District of New York wrote.
Santos remained defiant Thursday night, assailing the DOJ as “lawless” and claiming the prosecutors have been holdovers from former Lawyer Common Merrick Garland who served within the Biden administration.
“Lawless Merrick Garland holdovers are vicious and have 0 regards for the law or Court orders!” he tweeted, including later, “The first amendment seems to bother some people in government.”
Prosecutors have referred to as on Santos to serve greater than seven years in federal lockup, whereas Santos’ protection group insisted on a two-year time period – the obligatory minimal sentence for aggravated identification theft.
Santos, who was expelled from Congress, is ready to be sentenced on April 25 on Lengthy Island.
