Santos Summer Reading Is 80,000 Pages of Evidence in Fraud Case

George Santos, the embattled Republican congressman charged with fraud, will spend his summer vacation reviewing thousands of pages of evidence against him, his lawyer told a federal judge.

Santos, who is fighting both the criminal case and an effort to expel him from the US House of Representatives, appeared on Friday for the first time before US District Judge Joanna Seybert in Central Islip, New York. He has pleaded not guilty to a 13-count indictment alleging he engaged in a scheme to tap campaign contributions for his personal expenses, among other crimes.

Prosecutor Ryan Harris told the judge the ...