Remember this fool??? EX congressman George Santos???

[a kennedy]

The disgraced former congressman George Santos is defending his recent social media remarks to a federal judge who will sentence him this week on several fraud charges.

In a letter before his Friday court appearance in New York, Santos, 36, said he was “profoundly sorry” for his crimes but believed a seven-year prison sentence was too harsh, AP reported.

“Every sunrise since that plea has carried the same realization: I did this, me. I am responsible,” Santos, who has pleaded guilty, wrote. “But saying I’m sorry doesn’t require me to sit quietly while these prosecutors try to drop an anvil on my head.”

Santos’s letter comes after prosecutors accused him of “[remaining] unrepentant” and not being sincerely apologetic for his crimes. Santos’s defense team is seeking a two-year prison sentence, according to a filing last week.

Prosecutors referenced Santos’s social media posts, including one where he accused the justice department of being a “cabal of pedophiles”, to support their demand for a seven-year sentence.

Santos said his social media posts were being used “as a sword against me” and that he was not denying his guilt.

“Contesting the severity of a proposed sentence is not the same as contesting guilt, and punishing protected speech because it questions punishment should trouble anyone who values fair prosecution over personal vindication,” Santos wrote, also referring to himself as a “scapegoat”.

Santos also challenged prosecutorial claims that he has not made attempts to pay back the $580,000 he owes as part of his plea bargain.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/22/george-santos-fraud-sentencing

[maxsolomon]

1. Self-destructive sociopath

What a tawdry story his career is. That district should feel nothing but shame for being conned.

[onethatcares]

2. May I?

drop that anvil on his face? No charge at all

[Demovictory9]

3. please give him the full 7 years in prison. please!

for that Vet and his dog

[NNadir]

4. The case reminds me of Theresa Carpenter's closing remarks in the Village Voice piece comparing Hugh Hefner...

...with Paul Snider, who murdered his playmate wife and then committed suicide.

The Village Voice: Death of a Playmate

As a comparison between Santos and the Orange Slime Mold in the White House the remarks on Hefner and Snider apply:

In the end Dorothy Stratten was less memorable for herself than for the yearnings she evoked: in Snider a lust for the score; in Hefner a longing for a star; in Bogdanovich a desire for the eternal ingenue. She was a catalyst for a cycle of ambitions which revealed its players less wicked, perhaps, than pathetic.

As for Paul Snider, his body was returned to Vancouver in permanent exile from Hollywood. It was all too big for him. In that Elysium of dreams and deals, he had reached the limits of his class. His sin, his unforgivable sin, was being small-time.

I remember this piece after all these years, because my father - who was right wing and who I thought wouldn't be caught dead reading the Village Voice, read the article and remarked on the power of the writing.

Santos's unforgivable sin, compared to the orange slime mold, was being small time.