Former Congressman Cooley Dies

Former Oregon Second District Congressman Wes Cooley has died in Bend.  He was 82 years old.  Cooley was elected to Congress in 1994, but served only one term as he became embroiled in allegations that he lied about his military service in the state voters’ pamphlet, withdrawing from a re-election bid in 1996 under pressure from fellow Republicans and eventually accepting a plea agreement and sentenced to probation for lying in an official document.  In December 2012 he was sentenced in California to a year and a day in prison for hiding income from the Internal Revenue Service, and had to pay back three-point-five million dollars to victims for his role in an alleged investment scheme involving the sale of stock in an Internet startup company.

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