Disgraced former Congressman George Santos isn’t thrilled with the situations at FCI Fairton, the place he’s six weeks right into a seven-year sentence on federal fraud prices.
Amongst his chief objections towards the New Jersey jail was a latest go to from a “childish” administrator who allegedly joked the ability might have marble flooring and a jacuzzi, and inmates would nonetheless complain.
“Personally, I find marble to be cheap, gaudy, and tacky. But that’s beside the point,” he wrote in a column revealed by the South Shore Press.
In line with Santos, snide feedback like that one undermine the actual issues within the jail, equivalent to black mildew he claims was merely “cover[ed] up” and an air-con challenge that was only in the near past resolved “after what felt like an eternity.”
The 37-year-old Republican, who lied about almost all of his skilled and educational achievements earlier than being elected to the Home of Representatives, was expelled from Congress in December 2023 after lower than a 12 months in workplace.
In August 2024, he pleaded responsible to prices together with wire fraud and identification theft, and was sentencing to 87 months in April.
However in his Monday column, he lectured public servants — together with penitentiary operators — that they’ve an obligation to honor their “titles and responsibilities.”
Santos surrendered to jail officers on July 25, with a dramatic adieu to his supporters on social media.
“Well darlings… the curtain falls, the spotlight dims, and the rhinestones are packed,” he wrote.
Since starting his sentence, the Queens native has repeatedly written essays about his expertise behind bars. In his his newest South Shore Press missive, Santos promised to “continue to share these dispatches from what I can only describe as my own personal hell here at FCI Fairton in South Jersey.”
U.S. Congressman George Santos leaves the U.S. Jap District New York court docket Wednesday Could, 10, 2023 in Slip, New York. (Barry Williams for New York Every day Information)
“It is the mission of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), including the Federal Correctional Institution (FCI) Fairton to operate facilities that are safe, secure and humane,” a spokesperson mentioned.

