Santos did not immediately respond to a request for comment. They will offer him a plea bargain at Thursday's hearing, enabling him to avoid criminal prosecution, given that his crime was non-violent and carries a minimum sentence of less than four years, according to court filings.Ĭonvicts are typically given alternative sentences such as community service in such cases. The case had been shelved when investigators were unable to locate Santos.īut prosecutors reinstated the charges after Santos was elected to Congress last year, saying that meant he now had a verified address. In Brazil, Santos, the son of Brazilian parents who immigrated to the United States, is accused of stealing the checkbook of a deceased elderly man his mother had helped care for and using it to go on a spending spree when he was staying with her as a 19-year-old in the city of Niteroi. He was ordered to appear in court again on June 30 to face accusations he stole money from donors who contributed to his campaign, lied on his financial disclosure and collected unemployment benefits while earning $120,000 a year at a Florida-based investment firm. Santos, who pleaded not guilty, was released on bail of $500,000. The congressman, who has admitted to lying about his name, religion, education and work resume, was arrested and charged Wednesday by US federal prosecutors with wire fraud, money laundering, theft of public funds and making materially false statements to the House of Representatives. The closed-door hearing will be held by video conference, but it is not known whether Santos, 34, will participate, a court spokesman told AFP.
He has publicly stated that the Justice Department did not find enough fraud to impact the outcome of the election." Trump's efforts to undermine the results of the election. Rosen has emerged as a key witness in multiple investigations that focus on Mr. Clark at the top of the department to carry out that plan," The Times reported. "The investigations were opened following a New York Times article that detailed efforts by Jeffrey Clark, the acting head of the Justice Department's civil division, to push top leaders to falsely and publicly assert that ongoing election fraud investigations cast doubt on the Electoral College results.
Rosen testified before DOJ's inspector general on Friday and gave closed-door testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Saturday. Eight Republican activists who falsely claimed to be legitimate presidential electors for Donald Trump have accepted immunity deals from the Atlanta-area district attorney investigating. Trump subvert the results of the 2020 election," the newspaper reported, citing "a person familiar with the interviews." Rosen, who was acting attorney general during the Trump administration, has told the Justice Department watchdog and Congressional investigators that one of his deputies tried to help former President Donald J. The final person to lead the Department of Justice during Donald Trump's administration has testified about efforts to overturn the election, The New York Times reported Saturday afternoon.
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