"You don't have to pay back anything. It was an amount of restitution for victims of over $373,000. There was another incident where you had repeatedly charged contributions of credit cards without people's authorization. Two donors transferred money to a liability company. These are things that you pled guilty to."
"You know, Sean, I've put a lot of thought into that and I've spoken to my legal team. I think that the right thing to do is to explore a way to make it right. Part of actually squaring away with everything that has happened in my life is to start fresh and starting fresh, if it means we find a way to do it, sure."
Sean Hannity pressed former congressman George Santos to repay more than $373,000 to donors he defrauded, despite a presidential commutation that removed his restitution obligations. Santos, expelled from Congress after admitting to wire fraud and identity theft, served three months of an 87-month sentence and received a commutation that cleared the ordered restitution. Santos apologized to a past constituent and to the American people and said he would explore ways to make victims whole. Hannity challenged Santos’s explanation about payment technicalities and warned that the explanation sounded like obfuscation. The interview occurred days after the presidential intervention released Santos from federal custody.
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