Disgraced ex-Lengthy Island Rep. George Santos was already again on the celebrity-for-hire platform Cameo on Saturday — “contemporary out of jail” and able to attempt to rake in huge bucks once more after his presidential pardon.
The 37-year-old convicted New York fraudster reappeared on the platform — the place he has beforehand made greater than $600,000 — for the primary time in three months since touchdown behind bars for wire fraud and aggravated id theft.
“Diva UP All the time!” the fallen Republican wrote on X as he shamelessly plugged his return to Cameo, the place individuals can shell out a minimum of $300 for him to ship them customized messages together with involving birthdays, pep talks, recommendation and wedding ceremony speeches.
Companies also can e book a seven-day licensed “selfie-style video” from Santos beginning at $5,000.
“I’m again!!!’’ the ex-con former congressman wrote in his Cameo description — lower than a day after his lawyer begged for the media to offer Santos his privateness to permit him to “decompress.”
Santos revealed on X that his first meal out of jail was sushi — and that he’s now “again to place smiles on all of your faces!
“I’m removed from excellent. I’ve made errors, I’ve stumbled, however I by no means misplaced religion in Him,” Santos wrote Friday, the day he was launched from lock-up.
Santos’ first “Cameo” was to want former Trump White Home staffer Megan Small a cheerful birthday, in response to a video posted on-line.
“George Santos, contemporary out of jail break,” the ex-con stated, laughing, earlier than he completed his birthday message.
The previous Republican Congressman’s private on-line enterprise had been on hiatus whereas he was imprisoned on the Federal Correctional Establishment in Fairton, NJ.
He was launched Friday evening, hours after President Trump commuted his seven-plus-year jail sentence.
Santos thanked Trump in a long-winded submit to X on Saturday, saying the president gave him “a real second likelihood at life.
“President Trump jogged my memory that on this nation we love a lot, no mistake, no hardship, and no fall from grace can take away the potential for renewal,” Santos wrote.
Santos pleaded responsible to the costs in opposition to him and was sentenced April 25, reporting to jail July 25.
He solely served 84 days of his 87-month sentence.
Santos confessed that he and marketing campaign treasurer Nancy Marks, who additionally pleaded responsible to fraud conspiracy, had “filed the checklist of false names” to federal regulators and “used the names of our family and friends … to artificially inflate the numbers of our donors’’ to rake in additional public funding.
The illegally obtained taxpayer cash was then spent partly on OnlyFans subscriptions, Botox and spa remedies.
Santos additionally wildly lied about his private {and professional} accomplishments earlier than being elected, serving to to get him booted from Congress in 2023.
Amongst his lies was that he got here from a Jewish household.
“I by no means claimed to be Jewish,” Santos famously tried arguing to The Publish at one level. “I’m Catholic.
“As a result of I discovered my maternal household had a Jewish background I stated I used to be ‘Jew-ish.’ ”
The mendacity ex-pol, reached by telephone by The Publish on Sunday, declined remark aside from to say, “ You could have a pleasant day’’ earlier than hanging up.
Minutes earlier, he had written on X, “To the members of the press, I respectfully ask that any questions concerning the commutation of my sentence, granted by President Donald J. Trump underneath the grace of God, be directed to me personally.
“I’m at present in a interval of reflection and therapeutic, and if a part of that course of means dealing with robust questions from the media, I’m prepared, prepared, and ready to take action.”
His lawyer instructed The Publish on Saturday that Santos wanted “decompressing” from the “traumatic expertise” of jail.
“He was launched final evening. Let’s give him – let’s respect his and his household’s privateness and allow them to decompress a bit of. It’s a traumatic expertise as you’ll be able to think about,” stated the lawyer, Joseph Murray of Lengthy Island.
Throughout his shortened incarceration, Santos instructed The South Shore Press in regards to the appalling “fluorescent yellow … state-issued polyester” jumpsuits, in addition to mould and damaged AC models within the Jersey facility.
Santos revealed he had talked to Trump earlier within the day and was impressed to do good, pledging to reform America’s jail system.
“Impressed by President Trump’s work towards peace within the Center East, I’m dedicating myself to doing good, to constructing bridges as a substitute of partitions,” Santos wrote.
–Further reporting by Mikella Schuettler and Kevin Sheehan
