Key Points
George Santos is actively negotiating with prosecutors to resolve the criminal charges against him, the ousted Republican congressmans lawyer told a federal judge one day after the government said plea talks were under way.g)..
Id like to put my efforts toward that resolution, defense attorney Joseph Murray told US District Judge Joanna Seybert at a hearing Tuesday in Central Islip, New York..
He asked the judge to keep a Sept. 9 trial date on the calendar for now..
Prosecutors on Monday disclosed in a letter to Seybert that plea talks were underway and asked her to hold the trial as early as May if no agreement was reached..
Santos, 35, was expelled from Congress on Dec. 1 after the House Ethics Committee found substantial evidence he broke the law..
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