09-29-2005
CONGRESS - Other Recent Indictments Of Members Of CongressMichaela May
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Rep. Tom DeLay, R-Texas, is the sixth member of Congress to be indicted in the past decade. The others are:
Rep. William Janklow, R-S.D., resigned Jan. 20, 2004, after he was convicted of vehicular homicide in the August 2003 death of a motorcyclist. The former governor was convicted in December 2003 and sentenced to 100 days in prison. South Dakota's Supreme Court upheld his conviction.
Rep. James Traficant, D-Ohio, was expelled from the House in 2001 after he was convicted of bribery and racketeering violations. Only then-Rep. Gary Condit, D-Calif., who was then was the subject of a separate scandal, voted against the resolution to expel Traficant, who ran an unsuccessful write-in campaign in 2002. Traficant was sentenced to eight years in prison, three years of supervised release and $150,000 in fines. The Supreme Court upheld a decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which had rejected Traficant's assertion that his conviction and expulsion from the House violated the protection from double jeopardy guaranteed by the Fifth Amendment.
Former Rep. James Kolter, D-Pa., pleaded guilty in 1996 to conspiring to trade government-purchased postage stamps and vouchers for cash. He was sentenced to six months and fined $20,000, despite pleas for home confinement or time in a halfway house. Amid an investigation into allegations against him, Kolter lost his bid for renomination in 1992. He had served five terms in the House.
Two-term Rep. Walter Tucker, D-Calif., resigned in 1995, one week after he was convicted of extortion and tax fraud for accepting and demanding bribes while mayor of Compton, Calif. Prior to his resignation, Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., had introduced a privileged resolution that, if passed, would have resulted in Tucker's expulsion. Tucker was sentenced to 27 months in prison.
Rep. Jay Kim, R-Calif., was defeated for renomination in 1998 after pleading guilty in federal court the year before to a misdemeanor violation for accepting illegal campaign donations. Kim was sentenced to one year's probation, two months' house arrest, community service and a $5,000 fine. Kim was seeking his fourth term when he was defeated by Rep. Gary Miller in the GOP primary.
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