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A federal appeals court determined that he was tried in the wrong place.

(Reuters) -A federal appeals court on Tuesday overturned the conviction of former Nebraska congressman Jeff Fortenberry for lying to authorities investigating illegal contributions to his 2016 reelection campaign, saying his trial was held in the wrong place. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said Fortenberry should not have been tried in Los Angeles, where the Republican's campaign allegedly received $30,000 from Lebanese-Nigerian billionaire Gilbert Chagoury, just because federal age...

The former chief executive of a Hawaii-based defense firm has pleaded guilty to illegally funneling more than $200,000 to U.S. Sen. Susan Collins’ campaign and a political action committee that supported her 2020 reelection bid.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) — Republican U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, who was convicted of lying to FBI investigators about illegal contributions to his 2016 re-election campaign, said on Saturday that he would

  Publishers Note: This post appears here courtesy of the Civitas Institute. The author of this post is Andy Jackson.     The North Carolina Association of Educators Political Action Committee (NCAE PAC) included in its second-quarter 2020 finance report contributions to Gov. Roy Coopers and NC Sen. Dan Blues campaigns in excess of the legal limit.     To clarify what was going on, the Civitas Institute filed complaints with the NC State Board of Elections (SBE) asking them to investigat...