Nancy Marks was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to one count of criminal conspiracy in connection with her work for former Representative George Santos.
Nancy Marks was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to one count of criminal conspiracy in connection with her work for former Representative George Santos.
Nancy Marks was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to one count of criminal conspiracy in connection with her work for former Representative George Santos.
George Santos’s campaign treasurer and right-hand woman, Nancy Marks, was sentenced to probation on Wednesday for her role in the former congressman’s campaign finance schemes after pleading guilty to one count of criminal conspiracy.
Ms. Marks’s admission was crucial in helping federal prosecutors build their case against Mr. Santos, who pleaded guilty last year and admitted to committing identity theft, filing false reports and stealing donors’ money, among other crimes. He was sentenced last month to more than 7 years in prison.
Appearing before Judge Joanna Seybert in Federal District Court in Central Islip, N.Y., Ms. Marks, 59, apologized for her role in Mr. Santos’s schemes and vowed to have no further involvement in politics.
The sentence, three years’ probation and $178,000 in restitution, coupled with a heavily redacted sentencing memorandum and repeated delays in the sentencing, fueled speculation that Ms. Marks had cooperated with prosecutors.
Asked whether Ms. Marks had done so, her lawyer, Raymond Perini, was coy.
“I’m going to leave that an enigma,” he said.
Ms. Marks was once the go-to bookkeeper for some of Long Island’s most prominent Republicans. Her business dealings had drawn federal prosecutors’ interest, but it was her partnership with Mr. Santos, whose outrageous lies revealed serious misdeeds, that led to her downfall.