Defense team: Ex-Rep. Aaron Schock is being indicted
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Illinois congressman who resigned amid scrutiny of lavish spending — including remodeling his Capitol Hill office in the style of the television series "Downton Abbey" — expects to be indicted by a federal grand jury, his defense team said Thursday.
Once a rising star and prodigious fundraiser for the GOP, the 35-year-old Republican from Peoria resigned in March 2015 amid intensifying scrutiny over real estate deals, extensive travel that he documented on his social media accounts and other spending documented by The Associated Press and other media outlets.
The charges are the culmination of 19-month investigation that included two grand juries that Schock said "poked, prodded, and probed every aspect of my professional, political, and personal life."