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Nebraska Rep. Jeff Fortenberry announces re-election bid.
With U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry on the other aspect of the nation in Washington, D.C., attorneys argued in a California courtroom for two several hours Tuesday in excess of whether a choose should really bar prosecutors from employing statements he built to federal brokers at his trial on allegations he lied to them.
The hearing arrived a day just after the longtime politician announced he would seek a 10th term symbolizing Nebraska’s 1st District in Congress this year.
In Oct, a grand jury in Los Angeles indicted Fortenberry on two counts of producing phony statements to federal brokers and a person depend of looking for to conceal the supply of $30,000 in “conduit” political contributions from a 2016 California fundraiser.
The money originated with Gilbert Chagoury, a Paris-dependent Nigerian of Lebanese descent, who purportedly directed the donations to Fortenberry because of a shared fascination in shielding Christians from persecution in the Middle East. It is illegal for foreigners to donate to U.S. political campaigns.
Fortenberry has pleaded not guilty.
Last week, Decide Stanley Blumenfeld Jr. turned down five defense motions trying to find to dismiss the expenses and to disqualify one particular of the prosecuting attorneys.
In courtroom Tuesday, just before the very same choose, a person of Fortenberry’s attorneys, Ryan Fraser, argued that the statements Fortenberry built should really be suppressed simply because he only talked to investigators soon after a prosecutor instructed his then-legal professional he was not deemed a suspect, but rather was a topic, trending toward remaining deemed a witness.