A Washington grand jury has indicted former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., on charges he made false statements during a campaign finance probe, months after a federal appeals court threw out his 2022 conviction on similar charges in California.
The indictment, released Thursday by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, accuses Fortenberry of making false statements to investigators during a July 2019 interview in the District of Columbia and during a March 2019 interview at his residence in Lincoln, Neb.
Both interviews were connected to an investigation into illegal political campaign contributions from a foreign national to Fortenberry’s campaign and the campaigns of other federal candidates, with the probe seeking to find out whether any politicians were aware they received illegal contributions, the indictment states.
