UPDATE: GOP Rep Indicted For Lying To The FBI

ABC News reports:

U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska expects to be charged with lying to the FBI while federal agents were investigating campaign contributions funneled to him from a Nigerian billionaire, the nine-term Republican said as he proclaimed his innocence and promised to fight the charges.

In a YouTube video posted Monday night, Fortenberry said he was “shocked” and “stunned” by the allegations and asked his supporters to rally behind him. Knowingly making false statements to a federal agent is a felony, punishable by up to five years in prison.

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UPDATE:

A federal grand jury has indicted Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-Neb.) on charges of lying to federal investigators about his campaign contributions. The congressman, who was elected in 2004, said he expected to be indicted.

The federal grand jury charged him with one count of scheming to falsify and conceal material facts and two counts of making false statements to federal investigators looking into illegal contributions to his 2016 campaign, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California.

Two weeks ago Fortenberry issued a vaguely-worded money beg claiming that he is being persecuted by the Biden administration. He recently appeared on JMG when it was revealed that he had pressed the panic button in his Capitol hill office multiple times just to “test” the response time of Capitol Police. Fortenberry was among the 126 House Republicans who signed an amicus brief in support of overturning Biden’s win.