Former Ohio congressman to be released

Filed by Associated Press August 12th, 2008 in Top Stories.
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CINCINNATI (AP)— A federal prisons Web site shows that former Ohio congressman Bob Ney is scheduled to be released Saturday from a halfway house after completing his sentence in a bribery scandal.

Ney, a Republican who served six House terms, has served nearly a year and a half of his original 2 1/2 years prison sentence. The sentence was reduced after he completed treatment for alcohol problems.

He was transferred in February from federal prison in West Virginia to Cincinnati for placement in a halfway house as a transition to freedom.

The 54-year-old Ney admitted accepting golf trips, other gifts and campaign donations arranged by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates.

 


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