Disgraced former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is “decompressing” from the “traumatic experience” of spending less than three months behind bars one day after President Trump commuted his 87-month prison sentence for wire fraud and aggravated identity theft, his lawyer told The Post Saturday.
“Now is not a good time, I just got here, I’m meeting with him and we just want to let him decompress a little bit,” Joseph Murray said over the phone, and declined to provide any more information about the convicted felon’s current whereabouts.
“He was released last night. Let’s give him – let’s respect his and his family’s privacy and let them decompress a little. It’s a traumatic experience as you can imagine,” Murray, of Long Island, continued before hanging up the call.
Santos, 37, served just 84 days of the seven-year- and three-month-long prison sentence handed down by a federal judge in April on the white collar crime charges.
The ex-GOP Long Island rep echoed that it was “not a good time” before immediately hanging up the phone when The Post reached him Saturday.
He was released from FCI Fairton, a medium-security prison in Fairfield Township, New Jersey, at around 11 p.m. Friday – just five hours after Trump announced the commutation of his sentence on X, claiming Santos’ unlawful conduct was not nearly as bad as the fibs of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
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