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sl8

(16,245 posts)
Tue Aug 20, 2024, 05:23 AM Aug 20

Disgraced George Santos loses to the federal government and Jimmy Kimmel in a matter of hours

See also https://democraticunderground.com/132235273 (video).

https://lawandcrime.com/high-profile/disgraced-george-santos-loses-to-the-federal-government-and-jimmy-kimmel-in-a-matter-of-hours/

Disgraced George Santos loses to the federal government and Jimmy Kimmel in a matter of hours

Brandi Buchman
Aug 19th, 2024, 5:18 pm

On Monday, the expelled former House Republican representative from New York entered a guilty plea in federal court, admitting that he engaged in fraud and aggravated identity theft.

The aggravated identity theft charge carries a two-year mandatory minimum prison sentence but the guilty plea means Santos will avoid facing criminal trial. That trial was slated for next month in New York where Santos faced 23 total criminal charges.

And on Monday, just hours before entering his guilty plea, he was dealt a blow by U.S. District Judge Denise Cote, an appointee of former President Bill Clinton. Cote found that the embroiled former congressman’s February lawsuit against late-night television host Jimmy Kimmel alleging deceptive practices and copyright infringement simply wasn’t up to snuff and she dismissed it.

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Jimmy Kimmel commissioned ousted congressman George Santos without letting him know it was him. (Screenshots: Jimmy Kimmel Live and Santos’ Cameo account)

Kimmel commissioned and broadcast videos that Santos posted on Cameo for a sketch on his show and, as Law&Crime reported in February, Santos claimed that Kimmel aired five of 14 videos commissioned without disclosing his real identity.



[YouTube / Jimmy Kimmel Live]

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Disgraced George Santos loses to the federal government and Jimmy Kimmel in a matter of hours (Original Post) sl8 Aug 20 OP
Santos is such a putrid little shit. Aristus Aug 20 #1
If General Eisenhower were alive today FakeNoose Aug 20 #2
HOW LONG Skittles Aug 21 #3

Aristus

(68,251 posts)
1. Santos is such a putrid little shit.
Tue Aug 20, 2024, 09:46 AM
Aug 20

I might have been amazed that he managed to get himself elected to Federal office. But then I remembered; recruiting putrid little shits as candidates has been the GOP's stock in trade for over forty years now.

I can only wonder what Eisenhower would have thought of these pestilential power-grabbers.

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