Former Rep. George Santos, R-N.Y., began his 87-month prison sentence Friday afternoon, surrendering to the Federal Correctional Institution Fairton in New Jersey, according to The Hill.

Santos, 37, will serve more than seven years behind bars after pleading guilty to wire fraud and aggravated identity theft as part of a plea deal last year.

The New York Republican, whose rapid rise to national prominence was accompanied by a dramatic fall from grace, faced 23 federal counts, including money laundering, theft of public funds, making materially false statements to the House of Representatives and Federal Election Commission (FEC) and falsifying submitted records to obstruct the FEC.

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