George Santos Asks For Criminal Sentencing To Be Delayed So He Can Keep Podcasting

Former Republican Congressman George Santos is asking a judge to delay his criminal sentencing until much later this year because he says he needs to continue podcasting. According to Santos’ letter to the judge, the podcast is where his money comes from, and he needs that money in order to pay the restitution that he owes. But that isn’t how sentencing works, and Santos is really asking for special favors that he does not deserve. Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains what’s happening.

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Former Republican Congressman George Santos has asked the court to please delay my criminal sentencing because I need to podcast. That is his legal reasoning for not wanting to be criminally sentenced and instead wants to push it all the way to August because I just launched a podcast on December 15th, and I need to do that to make money to pay the restitution that, that you judge say I have to pay before I get sentenced. So, you know, this is really on you, judge, for making me have to podcast. Now, as we all know, Santos is not the only person right now asking judges to delay their sentencing as Donald Trump is desperately trying to stop before Friday. But George Santos is, uh, request is a little bit dumber than Trump's. And Trump's was pretty dumb. But Santos has come along and just absolutely taken the cake of the dumbest reason to delay criminal sentencing.

Here's the thing. Prosecutors have already told the judge, like, listen, this total bs the dude said he made $400,000 from Cameo. He made another $400,000, uh, from a new documentary about his life. So he is got 800,000 right there. He only owes half a million in restitution. Where'd the money go? Because Santos told the court I only got a thousand dollars. Even though he bragged when he joined Cameo, you know, about a year ago, that he had already made more money on cameo than he made in his first year in Congress, which should have been $174,000. 'cause he did make $174,000 his first year of Congress, plus 400,000 from cameo, 400,000 from the documentary. We're looking at close to a million dollars in the last two years. Where's the money? And that's what prosecutors pointed out in their filing, arguing that, listen, this guy is, you know, he's a liar.

He pleaded guilty to the fraud, pleaded guilty to duping vote like he is almost a professional liar. In fact, the irony is that his podcast is actually called Pants on Fire. So the prosecutors are like, don't you dare delay this criminal sentencing for which, by the way, Santos is looking at up to 22 years in jail. Very long time to put a podcast on hiatus. But we'll see what happens. Nevertheless, prosecutors say, listen, he owes the state half a million dollars. He owes 200,000 of that 500,000. That's just an asset forfeiture. He has provided the court, no financial statements, no statements of assets, like literally nothing.

But we're supposed to just take his word that he only has a thousand dollars on him. Bull crap. And again, I haven't seen his, uh, uh, financial records either, but I'm willing to assume Santos should have more than a thousand dollars in the bank after making more than, or nearly a million in the last two years. So we'll see what happens with this. I, I don't think Santos has a leg to stand on, but prosecutors ended their rebuttal to Santos in a very interesting way. They talked about the fact that, you know, if you grant this extension right, this delay of the sentencing, the message you are sending to the world judge is that crime does pay because he's asking you to put off the sentencing so that he can make money off a podcast, which is only gonna be popular if it is because of his name. And his name's only popular because of his criminal activity. So if you delay it, you are sending the message to the country that crime does pay, and that's a pretty crappy message to send to America.