Rep. George Santos' (R-NY) lawyers filed court documents Monday in which they begged a judge to keep the guarantor who paid the congressman's bail bond secret, according to CBS News reporter Scott MacFarlane.
Santos was indicted and held on $500,000 bond which was paid for by an undisclosed person. The lawyers explained that they're seeking to keep the identity sealed because they "are likely to suffer great distress, may lose their jobs and, God forbid, may suffer physical injury."
“There is little doubt that the suretors will suffer some unnecessary form of retaliation if their identities and employment are revealed," the defense lawyer also said.
“My client would rather surrender to pretrial detainment than subject these suretors to what will inevitably come," the lawyer explained.
MacFarlane also said that Santos' latest court filing revealed that the House Ethics Committee had asked him about the identity of the individuals that helped pay his bond, but his lawyers refused to answer.
See the document below or at the link here.
\u201cPer Santos's latest batch of court filings, the House Ethics Committee has asked Santos about the identities of people who helped him make bond\n\n===>\u201d— Scott MacFarlane (@Scott MacFarlane) 1686006053
