George Santos pleads guilty to multiple federal fraud counts: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/aug/19/george-santos-pleads-guilty-federal-fraud
Santos, aged 36, is almost exactly the same age Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln was when the British government prosecuted him for fraud in eerily similar circumstances (110 years earlier):
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignaz_Trebitsch-Lincoln
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