Federal Prosecutors Will Drop Charges Against Former Rep. Aaron Schock
WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors on Wednesday announced that they would be dropping felony charges against former Rep. Aaron Schock more than two years after he was indicted for allegedly misusing campaign funds and nearly four years since he resigned from office after questions were raised about his spending habits.
Schock admitted, as part of the deal, to receiving mileage reimbursements"that exceeded the number of miles actually driven," to obtaining tickets to events due to his role as a public official and then reselling them"at a profit," and to owing reimbursements for campaign expenses that"were in whole or in part unsupported by adequate records."to a misdemeanor count of improper record-keeping regarding its expenses and agreed to pay a fine of $26,553.
"We believe this agreement provides a sensible resolution. It’s a just result and provides the necessary public accountability," Joseph Fitzpatrick, a spokesperson for the US Attorney's office in Chicago, which was handling the case, said in a statement. Schock had made a splash on the national stage when he was elected to Congress the same year then-Sen. Barack Obama was elected president — a young face in the conservative movement that also happened to
. The Illinois Republican was seen as a rising star in the party in the years that followed, garnering significant media attention in addition to creating his own coverage through use of social media.
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