On Thursday, former Congressman George Santos attended a court hearing for a man who tried to extort him while he was facing criminal charges for fraud.

Convicted con man and ex-Rep. George Santos sat in a Brooklyn courtroom Thursday and watched another con artist admit to a harebrained scheme to trick the former Queens lawmaker out of $900,000. Santos sat in the gallery of Brooklyn Federal Court looking on as Hector Medina,

Convicted con man and ex-congressman George Santos sat in a Brooklyn courtroom Thursday and watched another con artist admit to a harebrained scheme to trick the former Queens lawmaker out of $900,000.

Hector Medina admitted to sending messages and photos to Santos, angling to induce the then-congressman to send large sums of money in exchange for getting his criminal charges dropped.