Peoria Congressman Faces Scandals: Top Aide’s Resignation, ‘Downton...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A top aide to Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock resigned Thursday following published reports that he posted racially charged comments on social media. Benjamin Cole had served as the...
View ArticleDetails — And Questions — Emerge About Rep. Schock’s Business Deal With...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Details emerged Monday of another business deal between embattled Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock and one of his political donors, as a congressional ethics investigation appeared to get...
View ArticleBoehner OK With Schock Resignation
WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner says he supports Peoria Congressman Aaron Schock’s abrupt decision to resign this week. Schock is the 33-year-old Illinois Republican who announced his...
View ArticleRauner Schedules Special Election To Replace Schock
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner has called for a special election to fill the vacancy caused by former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock’s resignation. Rauner’s office wants a special primary...
View ArticleNew Dates Proposed For Special Elections To Replace Schock
CHICAGO (AP) — Illinois and federal officials are proposing new dates for the special elections to replace former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock. In a document filed Monday in Chicago federal court, the U.S....
View ArticleFour From Aaron Schock’s Staff Subpoenaed In US Probe
WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress said Tuesday it has been told at least four staffers who worked for former Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock have been subpoenaed to testify before a federal grand jury as part of...
View ArticleSchock Donor Sues Former Congressman To Get Campaign Money Back
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) —A Chicago lawyer who donated $500 to former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock’s campaign is suing for reimbursement following his resignation in March amid accusations of fraud and...
View ArticleChicago Is Schocked — Schocked — To Find Former Congressman Here
(CBS) – Where is embattled former congressman Aaron Schock? It turns out, he’s right here in Chicago, CBS 2’s Brad Edwards reports. The Republican from Peoria has said he wasn’t hiding, though the man...
View ArticleSchock Has Reimbursed Government $122,590, Records Show
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock has reimbursed the federal government for the cost of auto mileage, office redecoration and a flight to Chicago Bears game. Disbursement records...
View ArticleAide Who Handled Schock’s Travel Testifies Before Grand Jury
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — An aide who booked travel and submitted expense vouchers for former Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock testified Wednesday before a federal grand jury investigating allegations...
View ArticleFeds Raid Aaron Schock’s Campaign Office In Peoria
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) — Federal agents removed items from former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock’s campaign office in central Illinois on Thursday, according to published reports. Roughly a dozen agents were seen...
View ArticleLaHood Wins Illinois GOP Race To Replace Ex-US Rep. Schock
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — State Sen. Darin LaHood won the GOP nomination Tuesday in the race to replace disgraced ex-U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock, defeating an anti-establishment conservative writer in a...
View ArticleSchock Spent More Than $1M From Campaign Fund To Pay Lawyers
CHICAGO (AP) — Former Congressman Aaron Schock spent more than $1 million from his campaign account over the past three months to pay for lawyers as federal authorities investigate his use of political...
View ArticleCourt Records: Schock Tried To Dodge Federal Subpoena
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Federal court records unsealed Monday indicate that former Rep. Aaron Schock was issued a grand jury subpoena seeking campaign and congressional records the day before he...
View ArticleVoters Select Aaron Schock’s Replacement In Congress: Darin LaHood
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Illinois state Sen. Darin LaHood has won a special election to replace disgraced former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock. The outcome of Thursday’s election will bring a familiar name to...
View ArticleProsecutors Issue Second Subpoena For Aaron Schock’s Records
SPRINGFIELD, Ill (AP) — Federal prosecutors have handed former Congressman Aaron Schock a second subpoena for financial records, texts and emails as part of a grand jury probe into spending by the...
View ArticleGrand Jury Indicts Aaron Schock On Wire Fraud, Theft Counts
PEORIA, Ill. (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” — was...
View ArticleAttorneys For Aaron Schock Ask Judge To Postpone Arraignment
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Attorneys for former Illinois Congressman Aaron Schock are asking a federal judge to postpone his arraignment on charges alleging he schemed to profit personally from his...
View ArticleSchock Allegedly Profited Off His Voters’ Washington Visits
CHICAGO (AP) — The indictment of a 35-year-old disgraced former Republican congressman jolted residents of his central Illinois district, shaken by prosecutors’ claims that Aaron Schock illegally...
View ArticleFormer Congressman Schock To Be Arraigned On Federal Charges
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock of Illinois is to be arraigned Monday afternoon on federal corruption charges. The 35-year-old Republican is accused of using government and...
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