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Aaron Schock was 27 years old when he was elected to Congress and became the first member of the House born in the 1980s.
Already a political veteran he won a write-in campaign for the Peoria, Ill., school board at 19 Schock was seen as one of Capitol Hill's up and comers. It didn't hurt that he was a gym disciple with a camera-ready face.
But six years after being sworn in as a congressman from Illinois 18th District in 2009, Schock resigned amid a federal and state criminal probe into how he spent campaign dollars and his $1-million-plus annual office budget.
Now, Schock, 35, faces a 24-count federal indictment handed down this month by a Springfield, Ill., grand jury that accuses him of pilfering his campaign accounts and his House allowance for personal expenses that included travel, a flight aboard a private plane to watch the Chicago Bears and even rent payments.
http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-aaron-schock-20161124-story.html
malaise
(269,187 posts)LisaL
(44,974 posts)"Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-pence-used-campaign-funds-to-pay-his-mortgage--and-it-cost-him-an-election/2016/07/15/90858964-49ed-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html
MADem
(135,425 posts)What a horrible man!