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.

Santos sat in the gallery of Brooklyn Federal Court looking on as Hector Medina, 37, told a judge how he reached out to Santos the lying former legislator and other “high-profile” people in criminal trouble, offering to make their charges go away for large sums of cash.

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,

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.