Disgraced former Republican MAGA Representative, George Santos, is reportedly set to plead guilty as early as Monday. In 2023, Santos was charged under a 23-count indictment for a litany of charges, including conspiracy to commit offenses against the United States, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, access device fraud, false statements to the Federal Election Commission and falsifying records to obstruct the commission.
It is unclear what kind of plea deal has been arranged with prosecutors, but usually agreeing to enter a plea of guilty greatly reduces the final tally of charges AND the sentence a defendant is facing. So it is quite possible that those 23 counts could be reduced to a handful.
The New York Times is reporting that "witnesses in his campaign fraud case were told by federal prosecutors that he intends to plead guilty on Monday." That is all the detail that is publicly known at this time. But the fact that prosecutors are already making it public to witnesses that may have been scheduled to testify at the trial, which was set to begin on September 9th, confirms that the deal is 99.9% done.
