Marjorie Taylor Greene calls for George Santos' 7-year sentence to be commuted [View all]

Source: AP

By ANTHONY IZAGUIRRE
Updated 12:49 PM CDT, August 5, 2025

It might be hard to find someone to have your back in politics if you get caught lying about your life story, become one of a handful of people ever expelled from Congress and then are thrown into federal prison.

But George Santos is no ordinary former politician.

In a letter Monday, U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene formally came to the aid of the disgraced ex-congressman with a request that his seven-year prison sentence be commuted, arguing that the length of the term represented “a grave injustice.”

The plea, which was sent to a Justice Department pardon attorney, came less than two weeks after Santos began his sentence.



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