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.
Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is “decompressing” from the “traumatic experience” of spending less than three months behind bars, his lawyer said. MICHAEL REYNOLDS/EPA-EFE/ShutterstockSantos, 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 Truth Social, claiming Santos’ unlawful conduct was not nearly as bad as the fibs of Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.).
“George Santos was somewhat of a ‘rogue,’ but there are many rogues throughout our Country that aren’t forced to serve seven years in prison. I started to think about George when the subject of Democrat Senator Richard ‘Da Nang Dick’ Blumenthal came up again. As everyone remembers, ‘Da Nang’ stated for almost twenty years that he was a proud Vietnam Veteran, having endured the worst of the War, watching the Wounded and Dead as he raved up the hills and down the valleys, blood streaming from his face,” Trump wrote.
“He was ‘a Great Hero,’ he would leak to any and all who would listen – And then it happened! He was a COMPLETE AND TOTAL FRAUD. He never went to Vietnam, he never saw Vietnam, he never experienced the Battles there, or anywhere else…This is far worse than what George Santos did,” the president blasted, referring to Blumenthal, who apologized for misstating his military record in 2010.
Trump also indicated that he decided to commute Santos’ sentence because of the “mistreatment” he endured in prison.
“George has been in solitary confinement for long stretches of time and, by all accounts, has been horribly mistreated,” he wrote.
“Therefore, I just signed a Commutation, releasing George Santos from prison, IMMEDIATELY. Good luck George, have a great life!”
Santos was picked up at FCI Fairton, a medium-security prison in Fairfield Township, New Jersey, at around 11 p.m. Friday. LP MediaSantos wrote in a column penned for Suffolk County-based South Shore Press that he was placed in solitary confinement to ensure his safety, and was denied his inhaler for more than 30 hours, calling the treatment “neglect.”
The outlet reported that the truth-troubled ex-congressman had initially ignored other prisoners Friday when they informed him that he was “on TV” Friday night, as he has frequently come up in the news during his sentence.
A half hour later, Santos allegedly read the print at the bottom of a TV screen broadcasting news, which read “Santos Sentence Commuted,” the outlet reported.
Santos, who had access to his X account during his stay in prison, reposted Trump’s announcement and posted a statement from Murray praising the president’s decision.
“God bless President Donald J Trump the greatest President in U.S. history!” Murray’s statement read.
Santos had initially faced 20 years behind bars, but he copped a plea deal just weeks before he was set to go on trial on nearly two dozen charges related to an alleged scheme to inflate his campaign contributions.
He was booted out of Congress in December 2023, following the release of a scathing House Ethics Committee report about his use of campaign funds for personal splurges, including X-rated OnlyFans subscriptions, Botox and lavish trips.
Santos also inflated his personal and professional history before entering the House of Representatives, by falsely claiming he graduated from New York University and Baruch College – the latter on a volleyball scholarship – worked at Citigroup and Goldman Sachs, and was descended from a Jewish family.
Additional reporting by Khristina Narizhnaya






