Overview

• He must surrender to the Federal Bureau of Prisons by 2 p.m. EDT on July 25 to begin serving his seven-year-plus term
• U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert imposed the 87-month sentence in April following Santos’s guilty plea to wire fraud, identity theft, money laundering and theft of public funds
• Prosecutors sought the maximum sentence over defense calls for two years, highlighting Santos’s continued defiance and risk of recidivism
• The prison term caps a fall from grace that included his December expulsion from the House after a bipartisan Ethics Committee found overwhelming evidence of campaign finance fraud
• This week Santos escalated his online attacks by threatening reporters and accusing FBI agents and prosecutors of orchestrating a political vendetta