By Julia Vargas Jones | CNN
Prosecutors in Brazil have agreed to a take care of Rep. George Santos in a case during which he's accused of defrauding a Rio de Janeiro space clerk of $1,300 over garments and footwear in 2008, paperwork obtained by CNN present.
A petition from Santos’ legal professional requesting a deal says Santos would comply with formally confess to the crime and pay damages to the sufferer, a Rio de Janeiro space clerk, as is required beneath Brazilian legislation.
A memo from prosecutors agreeing to the deal final week requested the protection for assurances they've the flexibility to contact the sufferer to repay him earlier than the deal is finalized.
The petition from Santos’ legal professional, filed in January, requests a non-prosecutorial settlement in lieu of a trial for his shopper, arguing that Santos is now gainfully employed and “re-socialized.” The petition additionally requested permission for Santos to be contacted by the court docket through e mail or telephone, and take part within the proceedings through videoconference.
Agreements could be reached in non-violent instances the place the sentencing minimal is beneath 4 years.
Santos didn't remark when requested about this reporting on Capitol Hill by CNN’s Manu Raju. CNN has reached out to attorneys for Santos in Brazil and the USA.
In 2010, Santos informed police he wrote dangerous checks from a stolen checkbook belonging to an aged man his mom cared for to buy the objects.
Santos informed the New York Put up in December he had not been charged with any crime in Brazil. “I'm not a legal right here — not right here or in Brazil or any jurisdiction on this planet. Completely not. That didn’t occur,” he stated on the time.
After Santos left for the USA, Brazilian authorities couldn't discover an handle to serve him papers intimating him to look in court docket, which ultimately led to the archiving of the case, till it was reopened in January.
Prosecutors couldn't remark additional, because the case is beneath a gag order.