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George Santos heads to prison, insists foul play is to blame if he dies behind bars

Brian Niemietz, New York Daily News on

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Disgraced former Congressman George Santos assured fans on Wednesday as he headed to prison that if he dies while serving his sentence, that wasn’t his plan.

“I’m heading to prison, folks, and I need you to hear this loud and clear: I’m not suicidal. I’m not depressed. I have no intentions of harming myself,” the former Republican representative posted on X.

Santos was sentenced to 87 months behind bars in April after copping to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft in a Long Island courtroom. He was given until July 25 to surrender to the Federal Bureau of Prisons.

The 36-year-old’s sentencing followed his 2023 expulsion from the House of Representatives to which he was elected on a campaign built on lies about nearly all of his qualifications.

Santos told his social media followers Wednesday that should something happen while he’s incarcerated, they should not to believe any stories they might hear about him harming himself.

“If anything comes out suggesting otherwise, consider it a lie…full stop,” he said. “So if something does happen, there’s no confusion. I did NOT kill myself.”

 

The ex-rep’s comments appeared to reference the 2019 death of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died of suicide by hanging at Manhattan’s Metropolitan Correctional Center while awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges. Despite numerous investigations, MAGA loyalists like Santos have refused to believe that Epstein killed himself.

According to right-wing conspiracy theorists, Epstein was instead murdered by a “deep state” in order to protect people he may have facilitated through child sex trafficking.

Trump loyalists in the Justice Department have asserted that Epstein killed himself and didn’t keep a “client list” implicating powerful people in politics, entertainment and business, but the demand for information stating otherwise continues among hardcore believers.

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