U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday commuted the more than seven-year prison sentence of former U.S. representative George Santos for fraud and identity theft, ordering his immediate release.

Santos, who was expelled from Congress after a brief, scandal-plagued tenure, had pleaded guilty to inflating fundraising figures and falsifying donor names to secure Republican Party financial support during the 2022 electio

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