Former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) pleaded guilty on Monday to two election-related felonies and admitted that he carried out a campaign finance fraud plot and stole credit card information when he ran for Congress in 2022.
Santos’s two charges, wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, carry a minimum two-year prison sentence. Santos is set to be sentenced on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.
Santos’s plea arrangement with U.S. Attorney Breon Peace, which a judge approved during Santos’s court appearance in Long Island, will allow him to avoid a trial. Parties in the case had been preparing for a weekslong trial that was set to begin in less than one month.
Peace brought 23 charges against Santos, alleging last October, and then again in May in a superseding indictment, that Santos submitted false records to the Federal Election…
