Former Congressman George Santos was released from prison late Friday night, just hours after he reportedly learned that his sentence had been commuted by watching the news.

The New York Republican “was on a computer when inmates started yelling ‘Hey…you’re on TV,'” according to the South Shore Press, for whom Santos wrote multiple essays during his brief time behind bars.

“Santos ignored it, since he’s on the news all the time,” the outlet reported Saturday. “30 minutes later, he read the crawl at the bottom of the screen : ‘Santos Sentence Commuted.'”

Less than five hours later, Santos was a free man, walking out of FCI Fairton in New Jersey , to his waiting family outside. Joseph Murray, one of his attorneys, confirmed he was released around 11 p.m.

Around that same time,

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