George Santos Cries As He’s Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison

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George Santos was sentenced on Friday to more than seven years in prison in what is the culmination of one of the wildest political scandals in memory.

The disgraced former congressman sobbed as Judge Joanna Seybert handed down his sentence, which includes two years supervised release, in a Long Island federal courtroom. “I offer my deepest apologies,” he said, according to the Associated Press. “I cannot rewrite the past, but I can control the road ahead.”

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