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US President Donald Trump has commuted the prison sentence of George Santos, the disgraced ex-Congressman from New York who was serving more than seven years for fraud and identity theft. The decision, announced on Friday, orders Santos’s immediate release from federal custody.

Santos, who was expelled from Congress after a short but scandal-filled term, had pleaded guilty to multiple charges, including inflating fundraising totals and falsifying donor information to gain Republican Party support during the 2022 election campaign. Despite his criminal record, Trump described Santos as having been “horribly mistreated" and said his punishment was excessive.

“George Santos was somewhat of a ‘rogue,’ but there are many rogues throughout our country who aren’t forced

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