Court Upholds Paul Carpenter’s Fraud Conviction
Former state Sen. Paul Carpenter’s convictions for fraud and money-laundering were upheld Wednesday by a divided U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Carpenter, a Democrat from Cypress, is serving a sentence of seven years and three months in federal prison. He fled before his scheduled sentencing in February 1994, saying he needed treatment for prostate cancer, but was arrested in Costa Rica several months later and extradited.
He was the last of five lawmakers sentenced on corruption-related charges in a 6 1/2-year FBI investigation of the state Capitol.
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