South Shore Press Exclusive: FBI Investigating Santos Death Threat


Letter From Santos to the South Shore Press | George Santos

I write this note on September 4, 2025. 

On August 28th, at around noon, my stay at FCI Fairton changed drastically. 

I was hauled to the Administration building by a lieutenant and another officer. 

My day had already had an odd start with an e-mail from my lawyer telling me that an investigative reporter with Project Veritas had reached out to him with information that there were people plotting to kill me in prison. 

Like the many countless other threats I’ve received before, I ignored it and prompted him to set up a legal call so we could speak. Well, like the good former cop he is, he ignored me and notified the facility warden, and alas, panic started.

The officers that hauled me are with SIS, and they handle investigations, due to the threats, they informed me that I was going to go to the Special Housing Unit (SHU) for my own safety. 

Well, here at FCI Fairton, they have a funny way of “protecting” you. 

They send you to the same exact place under the same conditions they send people who break the rules. 

The SHU is mainly used to create deterrence, but here they also use it to torture people. 

So it’s been 8 days since I’ve been locked away (at the time of his writing) in a 15x17 box with a bed, toilet, sink combo, and 1 shower for the first 6 days in the SHU.

I was denied my right to 1 hr (hour) of outside time, which I only started receiving after the Camp Admin, Mr. Santos, and the Counselor, Mr. Freeman, did something about it. 

Alas, another cage, only this one 22x12 ft, and is outside where I can breath(e) fresh air instead of the moldy flat air in my box with no ventilation. 

Yesterday, Mr. Santos and Mr. Freeman both went above and beyond to get me some answers. 

That’s when the head of SIS came to inform me that they had handed off the investigation to the FBI. So why does that matter, you may wonder?

On August 29, I was informed by Warden Kelly and Assistant Warden Noble that I’d be in the SHU for 30 days at very minimum while SIS investigates the matter. 

Well, now that changes everything because the FBI has no urgency in rushing this matter, and the fact I’m sitting in a box being treated like an animal is a non-starter for them. 

My stay in the precarious situation I find myself in has no end date, according to Assistant Warden Noble, who stated “That’s right” when I posed him the question.

So you all can understand my situation, the Box I’m in, as I said, is 15x17 ft, extremely dirty with no ventilation, with musty, dirty air, and my only source of drinking water comes from the top of my toilet. 

The shower only runs ice-cold water, and showers are only extended 3 times a week, with soap that does not lather or foam on recycled underwear from other inmates. 

There is no dignity, no humanity in this place. I’m being tortured every day and gaslighted on that it’s for my “safety.” 

I now have no access to calling my family daily, nor visitation from them.

Today was visitation day, and my husband drove 3.5 hrs to come see me on the singular visitation day we get every 30 days and after we were given the OK for the visit, he was turned away.

FCI Fairton is the definition of dysfunction, and it truly is hell on earth. 

The only hope I have is that President Trump will see this and take me out of this horrid situation and let me go back to my family. 

I want the world to know I’m not silent. I have not been silenced by Warden Kelly via her evil practices in what she calls “safety.”

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South Shore Press Exclusive: FBI Investigating Santos Death Threat

Editor's Note: Up until being placed in solitary confinement, George Santos was able to communicate electronically with the South Shore Press. This column was sent via "snail mail."