Schock legal team seeks to have charges dropped

Posted on April 19, 2018
Aaron Schock
Ex-congressman Aaron Schock is awaiting trial on corruption charges. (WJBC file photo)

By WMBD-TV

CHICAGO – A federal appeals court in Chicago is hearing arguments from former U.S. Rep. Aaron Schock’s legal team.

Schock’s lawyers are hoping to have all charges from his 2016 indictment dropped. The former lawmaker from Peoria was accused of misusing government and campaign funds. Recently, the case against him started to unravel after debate about whether prosecutors based charges on ambiguous House rules.

Wednesday, Schock criticized prosecutors, saying they’ve wasted time and money trying to find wrongdoing.

“It’s a sad day in America when our U.S. Justice Department will stop at nothing, not even trampling the constitution in its zeal to prosecute,” Schock said. “Thankfully we have the courts, and I am confident they will provide the necessary check on this out of control prosecution. Despite all this, I remain convinced that justice will ultimately prevail.”

No trial date has been set.

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