Journalists laugh as lawyer gives George Santos some free advice that he won’t take

Rep. George Santos
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In an interview last night about out Rep. George Santos’s (R-NY) arrest, a lawyer offered Santos some free advice as journalists laughed at the idea that he would take it.

Santos is facing 13 federal criminal charges related to alleged unemployment and campaign finance fraud. This includes allegedly filing for unemployment benefits while he had a job that paid $120,000 a year and collecting $24,744 in benefits, allegedly running an LLC that he told campaign donors to give money to and then spending the money on luxury clothes, and allegedly not properly declaring income on financial disclosure forms.

He surrendered to federal authorities yesterday and posted $500,000 bail before taking questions from reporters outside the courthouse and calling the case against him a “witch hunt.”

“This George Santos, he is facing a lot of time if he is convicted, so I’m not sure why would you speak to the public right after being arraigned knowing that anything you say can be used against you?” former prosecutor Bernarda Villalona said on CNN. “He hasn’t learned his lesson.”

Villalona said that Santos could be sentenced to up to…

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