{"id":39504,"date":"2025-04-22T20:05:46","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:05:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/profoundly-sorry-george-santos-writes-to-judge-ahead-of-fraud-sentencing\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T20:05:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T20:05:46","slug":"profoundly-sorry-george-santos-writes-to-judge-ahead-of-fraud-sentencing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/profoundly-sorry-george-santos-writes-to-judge-ahead-of-fraud-sentencing\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Profoundly sorry\u2019 George Santos writes to judge ahead of fraud sentencing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-congressman writes letter in bid for leniency and says seven-year sentence sought by prosecutors is too harsh<\/p>\n<p>The disgraced former congressman George Santos is defending his recent social media remarks to a federal judge who will sentence him this week on several fraud charges.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter before his Friday court appearance in New York, Santos, 36, said he was \u201cprofoundly sorry\u201d for his crimes but believes a seven-year prison sentence is too harsh, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/george-santos-fraud-sentencing-prison-1a5f54eb7ba742e91cffef748e6b1b1b\">AP reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/apr\/22\/george-santos-fraud-sentencing\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ex-congressman writes letter in bid for leniency and says seven-year sentence sought by prosecutors is too harsh The disgraced former congressman George Santos is defending his recent social media remarks to a federal judge who will sentence him this week on several fraud charges. In a letter before his Friday court appearance in New York, &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018Profoundly sorry\u2019 George Santos writes to judge ahead of fraud sentencing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/profoundly-sorry-george-santos-writes-to-judge-ahead-of-fraud-sentencing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018Profoundly sorry\u2019 George Santos writes to judge ahead of fraud sentencing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}