Hector Medina pleaded guilty to attempting to extract money from high-profile criminal defendants by promising them he could get their charges dropped.

A Texas man has been sentenced to a year and a half in prison over his failed effort to dupe disgraced ex-congressman George Santos out of nearly $1 million

Hector Medina, 40, admitted to fabricating an identity as a politically connected ... including the actor Danny Masterson, but convinced no one. Medina's attorney, Joseph Veith, said he was ...