George Santos won’t be required to pay restitution under Trump’s commutation of his sentence
Former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., won’t be required to pay restitution under Trump’s clemency grant, according to the document, which was published by the Justice Department.
Santos faces “no further fines, restitution, probation, supervised release, or other condition,” the document says.
Santos told CNN over the weekend that he would only pay the $374,000 in restitution to his victims if it was “required of me by the law.”
The ex-congressman was originally ordered to pay restitution as part of his sentence, in addition to facing seven years in prison. He ultimately served less than three months before Trump commuted his sentence late last week.
Santos pleaded guilty last year to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in what prosecutors said was a scheme that allowed him to personally profit from his campaign fundraising.
Federal appeals judge requests rehearing on National Guard deployment in Portland
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A judge on the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals late last night requested the full court rehear whether Trump can deploy National Guard troops in Oregon.
A panel of the federal appeals court ruled 2-1 yesterday that the administration can send the soldiers into the streets of Portland after a U.S. district judge temporarily blocked the deployment.
“After considering the record at this preliminary stage, we conclude that it is likely that the President lawfully exercised his statutory authority,” the panel of 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals judges wrote in a 2-1 ruling.
U.S. District Judge Karin Immergut, a Trump nominee, wrote in her order that Trump appeared to be acting in bad faith with exaggerated claims of violence in the city.
After the appeals court’s ruling, the Trump administration asked Immergut to rescind a second temporary restraining order she had issued that had blocked the Trump administration from deploying other state National Guard troops into Oregon.
Vance joins special envoy Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner in Israel in effort to shore up peace
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Vance will be in Israel today as the Trump administration works to secure the fragile ceasefire it helped broker between Israel and Hamas after deadly fighting broke out between the two sides over the weekend.
Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, a senior White House official told NBC News.
Israel said it had begun the “renewed enforcement of the ceasefire” yesterday after it launched strikes in Gaza over what it said was Hamas’ violation of the truce with attacks on Israeli soldiers that killed two.
GOP lawmakers head to White House as shutdown heads into fourth week
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Republican lawmakers will head to the White House today in an apparent show of solidarity as the government shutdown enters its 21st day with no end to the impasse in sight.
The Senate rejected the House-passed short-term spending bill for the 11th time yesterday.
Asked by NBC News what he hopes to see out of the meeting today, Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla., said last evening that while the agenda is unclear, Trump “is doing real good about reaching out and making sure that the Republicans are working all on the same page.”
“That should attest to his leadership, making sure he’s leading from the front, sharing his vision, making sure we’re staying in line with where the White House and the Congress wants to go with policies,” Mullin told NBC News.
