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Ney lied to investigators, and to a Congressional committee (on Financial Reform, or something like that).
Below from Wikipedia -
Robert William Ney (born 5 July 1954) is an American politician and convicted white-collar criminal from the U.S. state of Ohio. On October 13, 2006, Ney pled guilty to conspiracy and making false statements in relation to the Abramoff scandal and faces a maximum of 10 years in prison as well as fines. A Republican, Ney has served in the U.S. House of Representatives since 1995. Ney represents Ohio's 18th congressional district in the southeastern part of the state. Despite the seriousness of the corruption convictions, Ney has to date refused to resign from Congress.
Ney also gained notoriety when he mandated, as Chairman of the Committee on House Administration, that "french fries" be renamed "freedom fries" on House of Representatives food service menus, to indicate displeasure with France's lack of support for the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Before his own guilty plea, Ney was identified in the guilty pleas of Jack Abramoff, former Tom DeLay deputy chief of staff Tony Rudy, former DeLay press secretary Michael Scanlon and former Ney chief of staff Neil Volz for receiving lavish gifts in exchange for political favors.
On 15 September 2006, the Justice Department filed Ney's guilty pleas to a charge of conspiracy to defraud the United States and to a charge of falsifying financial disclosure forms. Both charges are related to actions taken on behalf of Abramoff's clients in exchange for bribes, as well as separate actions taken on behalf of a foreign businessman in exchange for over $50,000 in gambling sprees at foreign private casinos.[1] --------
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