前众议员桑托斯因电汇欺诈与加重身份盗窃被判87个月监禁
位于美国纽约州萨福克县的中央艾斯利普（Central Islip）联邦法院2025年4月25日判处前联邦众议员乔治·安东尼·德沃尔德·桑托斯（George Anthony Devolder Santos）87个月监禁：联邦地区法官乔安娜·赛伯特（Joanna Seybert）以电汇欺诈与加重身份盗窃罪判刑，并责令他向受害人支付373,749.97美元赔偿、没收205,002.97美元。桑托斯已于2024年8月认罪。
纽约东区联邦检察官约翰·J·德拉姆（John J. Durham）说：「今天，乔治·桑托斯终于为他犯下的成堆谎言、盗窃与欺诈承担责任。对被告来说，今天是审判日；对他的众多受害人——包括竞选捐款人、政党、政府机构、当选机构、他自己的家人与他的选民——来说，这是正义。」宣布判刑的还有司法部刑事司负责人马修·R·加莱奥蒂（Matthew R. Galeotti）、联邦调查局纽约外勤办公室助理局长克里斯托弗·G·拉亚（Christopher G. Raia）、国税局刑事调查纽约办公室特别探员主管哈里·T·查维斯（Harry T. Chavis Jr.）与拿骚县地区检察官安妮·T·唐纳利（Anne T. Donnelly）。
检方指，桑托斯认罪的罪名源于多项手法。其一是「政党计划」：在2022年竞选周期，桑托斯与竞选财务主管南希·马克斯（Nancy Marks）向联邦选举委员会提交虚假报告，谎称至少11名家人作出大额捐款、谎称桑托斯向竞选借出大笔资金——其中一笔50万美元的所谓贷款申报时，他个人与企业账户合计不足8,000美元——以凑够25万美元筹款门槛、取得全国性政党委员会的竞选支持计划资格。马克斯已于2023年10月5日就相关行为认罪。
其二是信用卡欺诈：约在2020年7月至2022年10月间，桑托斯窃取竞选捐款人的个人身份与财务信息，未经授权反复刷取其信用卡，并把部分捐款谎报为亲属或同伙所捐以掩盖来源、规避捐款上限；检方称他专门挑选自己认识的、患有认知障碍或衰退的老年受害人。其三是政治捐款招揽欺诈：2022年9月起，他通过一家有限责任公司谎称捐款将用于购买电视广告助选，两名捐款人各转入25,000美元，款项随即被转入其个人账户，用于购买名牌服装、取现、偿还个人债务等个人开支。
其四是失业保险欺诈：桑托斯当时在一家佛罗里达投资公司任地区主管、有近乎连续的工资收入，却自2020年6月起谎称失业申领纽约州失业救济，至2021年4月骗取逾24,000美元。其五是向众议院作虚假陈述：他在2022年9月的财务披露中谎称从Devolder Organization LLC领取75万美元薪资、取得100万至500万美元分红，并虚报支票与储蓄账户余额，同时隐瞒投资公司约28,000美元收入与2万多美元失业金收入。
桑托斯现年36岁，住纽约市皇后区；案号为23-CR-197 (S-2)(JS)。本案由纽约东区检察官办公室公共廉洁科与长岛分部刑事科、连同司法部刑事司公共廉洁科承办。（来源：美国司法部纽约东区检察官办公室）
Former Congressman Santos Sentenced to 87 Months for Wire Fraud and Aggravated Identity Theft
At the federal courthouse in Central Islip, in Suffolk County, New York, former U.S. Representative George Anthony Devolder Santos was sentenced on April 25, 2025, to 87 months in prison. U.S. District Judge Joanna Seybert imposed the sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, and ordered Santos to pay $373,749.97 in restitution to his victims and $205,002.97 in forfeiture. Santos pleaded guilty in August 2024.
John J. Durham, United States Attorney for the Eastern District of New York, said: "Today, George Santos was finally held accountable for the mountain of lies, theft, and fraud he perpetrated. For the defendant, it was judgment day, and for his many victims including campaign donors, political parties, government agencies, elected bodies, his own family members, and his constituents, it is justice." The sentence was announced with Matthew R. Galeotti, head of the Justice Department's Criminal Division; Christopher G. Raia, Assistant Director in Charge of the FBI's New York Field Office; Harry T. Chavis Jr., Special Agent in Charge of IRS Criminal Investigation in New York; and Nassau County District Attorney Anne T. Donnelly.
Prosecutors said the counts of conviction grew out of several schemes. In the "Party Program" scheme, during the 2022 election cycle Santos and his campaign treasurer Nancy Marks filed materially false reports with the Federal Election Commission, falsely reporting contributions from at least 11 family members and loans Santos had not made — including a reported $500,000 loan at a time when Santos had less than $8,000 in his personal and business accounts — to meet a $250,000 fundraising benchmark and qualify his campaign for financial and logistical support from a national party committee. Marks pleaded guilty to related conduct on October 5, 2023.
In a credit card fraud scheme, from about July 2020 to October 2022 Santos stole campaign contributors' personal identity and financial information and repeatedly charged their cards without authorization, falsely reporting some contributions as made by relatives or associates to conceal the source and evade contribution limits; prosecutors said he sought out victims he knew were elderly persons suffering from cognitive impairment or decline. In a fraudulent solicitation scheme beginning in September 2022, donors were falsely told through a limited liability company that their money would buy television advertisements; two donors each transferred $25,000, and the money was moved into Santos's personal accounts and spent on designer clothing, cash withdrawals, personal debts and transfers to associates.
Prosecutors also described unemployment insurance fraud — Santos, employed as a regional director of a Florida investment firm and receiving a salary on a near-continuous basis, falsely claimed from June 2020 to have been unemployed and collected more than $24,000 in benefits through April 2021 — and false statements to the House of Representatives: his September 2022 disclosure falsely claimed $750,000 in salary and between $1,000,001 and $5 million in dividends from the Devolder Organization LLC and inflated bank balances, while omitting about $28,000 in investment-firm income and more than $20,000 in unemployment benefits.
Santos, 36, of Queens, New York, was prosecuted under docket No. 23-CR-197 (S-2) (JS) by the Eastern District's Public Integrity Section and the Criminal Section of its Long Island Division, together with the Criminal Division's Public Integrity Section. (Source: U.S. Attorney's Office for the Eastern District of New York)
来源：美国司法部纽约东区检察官办公室
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图片来源：图：前众议员乔治·桑托斯的美国众议院官方肖像。图：美国众议院摄影办公室，公共领域，via Wikimedia Commons / Photo: Official U.S. House portrait of former Rep. George Santos. Photo: U.S. House Office of Photography, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
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