Santos fights to conceal identities of people helping him remain free while under indictment
The lawyer for Rep. George Santos said his client is willing to go to jail to keep private the identities of the people who guaranteed his bail bond. | Francis Chung/POLITICONEW YORK — Rep. George Santos is seeking to keep private the identities of the people who guaranteed his bail bond by appealing a federal magistrate judge’s ruling earlier this week that ordered their names be made public.
The judge, however, ordered that the information remain sealed until Santos had the opportunity to appeal her decision.Friday, Santos’ lawyer, Joseph Murray, suggested that publicly identifying the sureties would subject them to harassment and intimidation. Murray wrote that three people had initially offered to guarantee his client’s bond, but that in the wake of the “media frenzy” surrounding Santos’ indictment, one of the three “had a change of heart and backed out.
“It is reasonable to conclude that if Defendant’s suretors are identified, that the attacks and harassment will commence against them too,” Murray wrote. “Moreover, given the political temperature in this Country and acts of political violence that occur, the privacy interests of these suretors are far more concerning, especially considering their ages and respective employment.”
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