Former Rep. George Santos (R-N.Y.) is set to report to prison on Friday, officially capping off the New York Republican’s dramatic rise-and-fall in politics that saw him ascend as a GOP trailblazer before plunging to disgrace in the party.

Santos, 37, has not announced the prison at which he will surrender to begin an 87-month prison sentence — more than seven years — which he received after pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft as part of a plea deal last summer.

He faced 23 federal counts for a number of criminal schemes, including money laundering, theft of public funds, making materially false statements to the House of Representatives and Federal Election Commission (FEC) and falsifying records submitted to obstruct the FEC.

The beginning of Santos’s prison sentence marks the end — for now — of a story that captivated Washington for months, which began in 2022 with praise for the

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