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  • Etterra@discuss.onlineEnglish
    13·
    13 hours ago

    I dug into it a little bit, it’s a plea deal so there won’t be any appeals delaying things. I don’t know if good behavior early release is a thing for federal prison, if it is he’ll probably get out early. Still, at least somebody’s going to jail for once.

    • turtlesareneat@discuss.onlineEnglish
      2·
      40 minutes ago

      Not because he was a POS to the American People tho, because he said a bunch of shit about his other house members and pissed them off. The only way to actually go to jail is to not play their game.

    • _____@lemm.eeEnglish
      5·
      18 hours ago

      I don’t follow American politics too much but didn’t this guy claim Trump would pardon him? Not that he would, but the belief I think was being held by him that he would.

      • TacticalCheddar@lemm.eeEnglish
        3·
        13 hours ago

        He said he won’t ask Trump for a pardon since he doesn’t think he’ll be granted one.

        But this is Santos we’re talking about. He’ll definetly try.

  • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    53·
    19 hours ago

    I’m surprised he hasn’t claimed diplomatic immunity, as heir to the Swedish Throne

    • Akasazh@feddit.nl
      2·
      1 hour ago

      You jest but the current line of monarchs of Sweden was a guy who basically fumbled his way upward. He was a mediocre marshall under Napoleon, whom after the battle of Austerlitz got a princedom from him.

      Then Sweden list their only heir presumptive for the throne. Due to the lobbying of a single Baron Jean Bernadotte became king of Sweden.

      He is the only Napoleonic related person who has a lasting legacy the European upper class.

      It’s almost a Soros story, but in real life

      • dhork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        19 minutes ago

        I was aware, he never actually misrepresented himself at all, but was simply in the right place at the right time, and knew the right people. He also got elected to be the heir to the Swedish Throne, so had to convince a bunch of other stuffy inbred nobles that he looked good in a robe, which needed a bit of political savvy.

        He put in more work to become a Crown Prince than all the others, who simply came out of the right vagina.

    • Skeezix@lemmy.worldEnglish
      14·
      16 hours ago

      According to George himself, he’ll be residing at a luxury resort prison he designed and built himself in the Algarve.

  • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
    241·
    19 hours ago

    Haha suck it, rot scum

    One day I hope for a world without prisons but meanwhile, while we’re living in Hell that I have no hand in making, at least one guy deserves to be there.

  • BendingHawk@lemmy.world
    102·
    16 hours ago

    Oh that must be why they have him in handcuffs at a secure facility. I would gladly take “7 years of George Santos prison time” over this reality.

  • BarqsHasBite@lemmy.world
    18·
    19 hours ago

    As his political career nosedived, prosecutors charged Santos with 23 federal counts over several criminal schemes. He took a deal last summer that included pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft.

    As part of his plea deal, Santos admitted to filing false campaign finance reports, charging donors’ credit cards without authorization and fraudulently receiving unemployment benefits, among other things, saying he was taking responsibility for the “lies I have told myself.”

    He also agreed as part of the deal to pay nearly $374,000 in restitution and a forfeiture judgment of roughly $205,000.

  • atzanteol@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    91·
    19 hours ago

    “But saying I’m sorry doesn’t require me to sit quietly while these prosecutors try to drop an anvil on my head. True remorse isn’t mute; it is aware of itself, and it speaks up when the penalty scale jumps into the absurd"

    How’s that working out for ya?