Posted on Thursday, December 15th, 2016 at 9:53 am
Thirty-five-year-old former Representative Aaron Schock (Republican of Illinois) has maintained his innocence ever since federal prosecutors charged him with 24-count indictment in November, pleading not guilty last Monday, December 12 to two dozen counts of felony corruption, including wire and mail fraud, stealing government funds, filing false tax returns, and falsifying federal campaign forms.
Federal prosecutors accused Schock of using his campaign funds and congressional office to purchase things for himself.
Timothy Bass, one of such prosecutors, is apprehensive about allowing Schlock to continue using his campaign funds to pay for his attorney’s fees and other “unsupervised expenditures”, saying, “These campaign funds are potential victims of the crimes charged.
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