GOP Rep. Jeff Fortenberry indicted Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska has been indicted, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.
The US Attorney's Office for the Central District of California said in a press release that a federal grand jury charged Fortenberry "with concealing information and making false statements to federal authorities who were investigating illegal contributions made by a foreign national to the congressman's 2016 re-election campaign."
The indictment charges the congressman with one count of scheming to falsify and conceal material facts and two counts of making false statements to federal investigators.
The congressman has said that he did not lie to federal agents and has vowed to fight back.
Fortenberry said in a video uploaded to YouTube ahead of the indictment being announced that "about five and a half years ago, a person from overseas illegally moved money to my campaign," but said that he "didn't know anything about this." Fortenberry appears in the video with his wife Celeste.
The congressman goes on to say that FBI agents from California showed up knocking on his door "about two and a half years ago."
"I let them in my house. I answered their questions. Later we went back and answered further questions. I told them what I knew and what I understood. They have accused me of lying to them and are charging me with this," he said.
"We will fight these charges. I did not lie to them. I told them what I knew," he says in the video. .............
https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/19/politics/jeff-fortenberry-indictment/index.html
