https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/fort-bend/2026/05/06/551129/kp-george-social-media-trial/

The scheduled May 5 misdemeanor trial for suspended Fort Bend County Judge KP George has been reset to late July after a request from prosecutors who said they're waiting until after the June 16 sentencing for George's felony money laundering conviction.

"We asked to roll the case past the felony sentencing date. There was no opposition from the defense," Assistant District Attorney Wesley Wittig said.

At the June sentencing, George could face up to 10 years in prison, along with fines up to $10,000. George's misdemeanor charge of misrepresentation of identity has been moved to a jury trial beginning July 21, where he could also face up to a year in county jail and up to $4,000 in fines.

The misdemeanor charge stems from accusations that George misrepresented his identity by using a fake social media account and "posing as Facebook user ‘Antonio Scalywag'” to allegedly fake racist attacks against his own 2022 re-election campaign in order to “injure a candidate or influence the result of an election," according to county court documents.

George allegedly worked with a former staffer, Taral Patel, to make the social media posts. George has denied the misrepresentation of identity accusations.

Patel has since pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor counts of misrepresentation of identity by a candidate in 2025 and signed an acknowledgement that he committed one of these offenses alongside George.

George's defense attorney Jared Woodfill did not respond to a request for comment.

George was first elected to office in the diverse, fast-growing county southwest of Houston as a Democrat in 2018 and reelected in 2022. He switched parties and joined the GOP this summer, but failed to secure the Republican nomination for his seat in the recent March primary elections. George secured 8.4% of the vote to place last in a five-candidate race.

Since George’s conviction, Daniel Wong, the Republican nominee for Fort Bend County judge, was sworn in as acting county judge at the courthouse on April 13.

Wong has assumed responsibilities as the chief executive until the November general election, where he will face the winner of the May 26 Democratic primary runoff between Fort Bend County Precinct 4 Commissioner Dexter McCoy and Rachelle Carter, an associate judge with Sugar Land’s municipal court.