US EditionTrump commutes prison sentence of ex-GOP Rep. George Santos
- On Friday, Oct. 17, 2025, President Donald Trump commuted the sentence of George Santos, former U.S. Representative from New York, who was serving time in federal prison.
- Santos was sentenced in April to more than seven years after admitting to deceiving donors and stealing the identities of 11 people, and he reported to the Federal Correctional Institution in Fairton on July 25, housed in a minimum-security prison camp with fewer than 50 inmates.
- Federal prosecutors argued for a stiffer sentence because Santos lacked remorse, while Santos and allies called the prosecution a politically motivated `witch hunt` and Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called it `a grave injustice`.
- Trump posted on his social platform that he had signed a commutation freeing George Santos immediately, following pardons of Michael Grimm and John Rowland since retaking the White House in January.
- Once an up-and-coming GOP figure, George Santos became the first openly gay Republican elected to Congress in 2022, but his fabricated biography led to investigations and expulsion from the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Former Republican MP Santos entered a more than seven-year prison term for fraud in July, which is now over again. After a mitigating by US President Trump, he was released.
Sentenced for financial crimes, the former Republican elected George Santos saw his sentence commuted by Donald Trump. Released on Friday from New Jersey, he had been incarcerated in July.
Donald Trump granted the former Republican MP George Santos, convicted of fraud, a fine he had just signed, on Friday (local time) on Truth Social. The Republican was immediately released from prison. Trump did not further explain exactly what the measure included. "George Santos was something of a 'shoker', but there are many villains in our country who are not forced to spend seven years in prison," Trump said earlier. He also wrote that Santo…
George Santos, sentenced to seven years in prison, was released from prison a few hours after his sentence for financial crimes was commuted by Donald Trump L
U.S. President Donald Trump, quoted George Santos, an former Republican congressman who spent seven years in prison for fraud and identity theft, ordering his immediate release, after three...
Republican George Santos was for a while the feeling – for the bad – of U.S. politics. Shortly after winning his seat for the House of Representatives in November 2022 it began to be known that everything in his life was a lie and fraud.When the cake was discovered, he was expelled from the Lower House and, later, charged with various corruption-related crimes, from defrauding donors of his campaign to lying to Congress about his assets.But Sant…
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