New York Republican’s lawyer urges a judge to deny a request by news outlets to unseal the names of Santos’s bond suretors, or guarantors, suggesting they could ‘suffer great distress’
Rep. George Santos’ lawyer said Monday the indicted New York Republican would risk going to jail to protect the identities of the people who co-signed the $500,000 bond enabling his pretrial release.
“My client would rather surrender to pretrial detainment than subject these suretors to what will inevitably come,” Murray wrote in a letter to U.S. Magistrate Judge Anne Shields. Murray said he, Santos and Santos’ staff have been receiving threatening and harassing calls and messages, including death threats. The lawyer said he received a call Friday from someone shouting, “Who paid Santos’ bond?” and said he worries Santos’ critics “are just waiting to pounce” on the people backing his release.
The New York Times first wrote to Shields on May 23 asking to unseal the names. Other news outlets, including the Associated Press, joined the fight a few days later.
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