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Gloria Oladipo

‘Profoundly sorry’ George Santos writes to judge ahead of fraud sentencing

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George Santos outside court in Long Island last year. Photograph: Stefan Jeremiah/AP

The disgraced former congressman George Santos is defending his recent social media remarks to a federal judge who will sentence him this week on several fraud charges.

In a letter before his Friday court appearance in New York, Santos, 36, said he was “profoundly sorry” for his crimes but believed a seven-year prison sentence was too harsh, AP reported.

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