Rep. George Santos’s former bookkeeper, Nancy Marks, is expected to plead guilty in federal court to unspecified charges connected to the case against Santos.
NEW YORK — A bookkeeper for Rep. George Santos’s last campaign is scheduled to plead guilty to unspecified charges in federal court on Thursday afternoon in connection to the congressman’s existingIt was not immediately clear what charges the employee, Nancy Marks, would be pleading guilty to when she appears before a judge in Long Island.
Santos was charged in May with a number of financial crimes over allegations that he defrauded campaign donors by misusing funds and lied about his work status to get unemployment benefits he wasn’t entitled to during the pandemic. He’s also accused of falsifying information on required financial paperwork submitted to the House of Representatives.astonishing number of false claims
about his background and his qualifications while seeking office. He publicly claimed he was a descendant of Holocaust survivors and that his mother survived the Sept. 11 attacks.His lies were widely mocked on social media and in popular culture. They were also considered serious violations of the public’s trust and prompted calls for his resignation, which he resisted. The U.S. attorney’s office in Brooklyn opened a criminal investigation last year.
Marks has been a longtime treasurer for numerous high-profile New York politicians, including former congressman Lee Zeldin, the Republican who ran unsuccessfully for governor last year. He dropped her in February, however, forming a new federal fundraising committee with a different treasurer amid the glare of the Santos campaign’s finances.
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