WASHINGTON — George Santos, the disgraced former member of Congress and notorious fabulist who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft after being expelled from the House, has been in federal prison for 11 days on a sentence of more than seven years.

On Monday, one of his former colleagues began a formal effort to get him out.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the brash Georgia Republican and MAGA adherent, sent a letter to the Justice Department’s pardon attorney asking that Santos’ 87-month prison term be commuted, calling it “excessive” and a “grave injustice.”

Greene’s letter came just days after President Donald Trump, who has doled out pardons or clemency to staunch supporters and others favored by his right-wing base, did not rule out offering a pardon to Santos, sa

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