Breaking: Former Rep. Aaron Schock receives deferred prosecution in deal over corruption case
that would leave him with no criminal conviction if he pays $110,000 in restitution and taxes and stays out of legal trouble for six months.no criminal charge but his campaign committee will plead guilty to a misdemeanor — was struck after the Justice Department transferred the case out of the original prosecutor’s office in Springfield, Ill. and sent it to other prosecutors in Chicago.
As part of the agreement, Schock made limited concessions to the court, including that “at times his actions or inaction may have caused his campaign committees and the House to pay expenses that Schock knew or should have known were not properly charged to those entities.” “This case has dragged on for more than four years and I am ready to put this behind me and move forward,” he said. “I have stated consistently and constantly that mistakes were made in the handling of my campaign and congressional offices, and I have acknowledged responsibility for that — but mistakes are not crimes. I have learned from this experience. The outcome validates this case should have never been started in the first place.
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