Former treasurer's guilty plea is 'bad news' for Rep. George Santos, experts say, whether or not she cooperates with prosecutors.
The Justice Department's announcement this week of a guilty plea from the Long Island-based ex-campaign treasurer for Republican Rep. George Santos signaled that the federal fraud case against the congressman is strong, according to legal experts. Nancy Marks appears to have had intimate knowledge of the thousands of dollars that flowed into and out of Santos' campaign accounts, making her the focus of federal scrutiny.
Marks and Santos, according to plea papers, allegedly lied about a loan they said Santos had provided to his campaign in an effort to bolster the campaign's prospects heading into the election. Only identifying Santos as 'Co-Conspirator #1,' prosecutors wrote he 'had not made the reported loans and, in fact, did not have the funds necessary to make such loans at the time.
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