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George Santos Would Have Been Better Off Losing

The limelight has a funny way of guiding prosecutors.
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Updated at 2:25 p.m. ET on May 10, 2023

George Santos was a young man in a hurry, and when he came from nowhere to win a seat in the U.S. House last November, he must have thought he’d arrived. But an indictment filed yesterday in federal court on Long Island suggests that his actual destination might be not the U.S. Capitol but a more restrictive federal-government facility.

For Santos to be indicted the same day that a jury in Manhattan found former President Donald Trump against the writer E. Jean Carroll is a fitting

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