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FORMER CONGRESSMAN DONALD E. LUKENS INDICTED FOR BRIBERY
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| News Date | Thursday, February 23, 1995 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | The Department of Justice announced
today that former Congressman Donald E. "Buz" Lukens, of
Middletown, Ohio, has been indicted on five felony counts,
including bribery, by a federal grand jury in the U.S. District
Court for the District of Columbia.
Lukens and another defendant in a related indictment, John P.
Fitzpatrick, also of Middletown, were taken into custody today by
Special Agents of the FBI, Lukens in Dallas, Texas, and
Fitzpatrick in Kent, Ohio.
Count one charges Lukens, 64, with conspiracy to solicit and
receive bribes and conspiracy to deprive the United States of his
honest and faithful services, in violation of 18 U.S. C. 371.
This count involves Lukens' acceptance of $27,500 in payments
from Ohio businessman, John P. Fitzpatrick and Henry Whitesell, who
is now deceased, in return for using his Congressional office to
assist them in connection with a trade school they operated in
Ohio, the Cambridge Technical Institute (CTI).
Counts two through five of the indictment charge Lukens with
soliciting and accepting four bribery payments, ranging $2,500 to
$15,000 between May and September 1990, while he was a Member of
Congress., in violation of 18 U.S.C. 201 (b) (2).
Lukens served in the U.S. House of Representatives most
recently from January 1987 to October 1990. He faces a maximum
penalty of 65 years in prison and a $1,250,000 fine if convicted of
the offenses. |
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