The Georgia Republican on Monday sent a letter to the Justice Department calling for the former congressman's fraud sentence to be commuted.

Ms. Greene, the hard-right House Republican from Georgia, called her former colleague’s seven-year sentence “excessive” in a letter to the U.S. pardon attorney.

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) wrote to President Donald Trump on Monday to ask that he commute former New York Rep. George Santos’s nearly seven-year prison sentence. Santos began his sentence last month after pleading guilty to money laundering and wire fraud charges,