The Justice Department on Wednesday dropped charges in two criminal cases that President Donald Trump criticized as political, one related to the FBI raid of his Florida residence Mar-a-Lago and one against former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry.
The DOJ filed a one-page memo in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to end the federal case against Fortenberry on charges he lied to federal authorities who were investigating illegal contributions to his 2016 reelection campaign.
Fortenberry represented Nebraska until resigning in 2022 following an initial conviction in a jury trial in California. That conviction was later overturned by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit in a ruling that said the case instead should have been filed in Nebraska or Washington, D.C.
