Ex-Rep. Jenrette Wins Release from Prison
Associated Press
WASHINGTON —
Abscam convict John W. Jenrette has been ordered released from federal prison after 13 months of a two-year sentence, to spend two months at a halfway house in South Carolina.
The former Democratic congressman from South Carolina was convicted in October, 1980, of conspiracy and accepting a $50,000 bribe in the FBI investigation into political corruption.
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