NATIONAL BRIEFING / WASHINGTON, D.C.
TIMES WIRE REPORTS
An imprisoned federal judge facing an impeachment trial in the Senate in a sexual abuse case says he will resign at the end of the month. U.S. District Judge Sam Kent produced the resignation letter when he was served with a subpoena for his impeachment trial, said Terrance Gainer, the Senate sergeant-at-arms.
Kent is serving a 33-month sentence in a Massachusetts federal prison for lying to judicial investigators about sexually assaulting two women.
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