A source has informed that a federal investigation has been launched and is presently being conducted on U.S. Representative Aaron Schock from Illinois regarding his business deals and congressional expenditures. The FBI agents have given subpoenas to the witnesses.
The main area of investigation is Schock’s House Office expense account, his re-election campaign expenses along with his personal investments. Only within weeks of media reports flying around concerning his doubtful finances and expenses, he abruptly announces on Tuesday about his resignation.
Word is that the government is also preparing a federal jury in Illinois, in addition to FBI agents contacting people close to the congressmen for testifying against him. It was stated on the subpoenas that on early April, the grand jury will hear the testimonies.
The unexpected announcement of Schock has come following the business deals and lavish travel expenditure revelations with 6 weeks, inclusive of reimbursements of personal mileage and change of style of his ‘Downtown Abbey’ office.
It has been reported that the Schock’s estimated personal wealth which was of almost $1.4 million started to go up because of some real estate deals involving political donors. These political contributors were created, financed and very rapidly purchased a home that Schock owned as Peoria investment, along with being the owner of Peoria apartment complex owned with other contributors. He has also worked very hard for a federal appropriation which is beneficial for a development project of a donor.
U.S. Senator Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) expected such a thing to happen. He said, “We have to remember that when we talk about the misuse of campaign or official funds, we are talking about potential violations of the law,” Durbin said. “So the fact that they are looking into this seriously at the U.S. attorney’s office in Springfield is not a surprise.”
“It doesn’t work that way,” Durbin said. “In many instances, if you have violated the public trust, if you misused public funds, saying I’ll pay them back doesn’t get you off.”
Jorge Santana
