Overview

• George Santos began serving his 87-month term at FCI Fairton on July 25 after pleading guilty last year to 23 felony counts and agreeing to pay over $370,000 in restitution.
• President Trump told Newsmax he has the authority to pardon Santos but emphasized that no formal clemency request has reached him.
• Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene sent a letter to the Office of the Pardon Attorney urging commutation of Santos’s sentence as unequal treatment under the law.
• Federal prosecutors found that Santos misused campaign donations for personal expenses such as Botox treatments, luxury goods and adult content while also collecting pandemic unemployment benefits.
• Santos’s case has become a flashpoint for debates over political corruption accountability and the limits of executive clemency for partisan allies.