By Clare Foran and Christina Carrega
CNN
October 21, 2021
(CNN)Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of Nebraska has been indicted, the Department of Justice announced on Tuesday.
The US Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California said in a press release that a federal grand jury charged Fortenberry “with concealing information and making false statements to federal authorities who were investigating illegal contributions made by a foreign national to the congressman’s 2016 re-election campaign.”
The indictment charges the congressman with one count of scheming to falsify and conceal material facts and two counts of making false statements to federal investigators.