Ex-Rep. Hansen’s Financial Disclosure Convictions Upheld
A federal appeals court today upheld former Rep. George Hansen’s felony convictions for failing to list more than $300,000 in loans and income on financial disclosure forms.
The ruling moves the Idaho Republican a step closer to prison, but his lawyers have promised to appeal the decision by the three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. The court found Hansen’s arguments for reversal of his conviction “without merit” and affirmed the guilty verdict on all counts.
Hansen, 54, a conservative maverick in the House, was convicted in federal court in Washington April 2, 1984, of failing to report $334,000 in income and loans on his congressional disclosure forms.
He was sentenced to 5 to 15 months in prison and fined $40,000 but has remained free while the case was appealed.
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