Overview

• He was sentenced in April to 87 months in prison after pleading guilty to 23 federal counts of wire fraud and identity theft
• He is required to report to a medium-security federal facility by July 25 to begin serving his sentence
• In a July 11 interview with Tucker Carlson, he described himself as a sheltered gay man who lacks street survival skills and fears violence behind bars
• CNN legal analyst Elie Honig and other experts have criticized his seven-year term as unusually harsh for a first-time nonviolent political offender
• He was expelled from the House in December 2023 after an Ethics Committee report uncovered false campaign finance filings, misuse of funds and fabricated credentials