Ray LaHood paid fine to resolve investigation into loan
April 1, 2021
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FILE - In this Monday, April 29, 2013, file photo, then-Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood speaks in the East Room of the White House in Washington, after President Barack Obama announced that he will nominate Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx, to succeed LaHood. On Wednesday, March 31, 2021, the Department of Justice disclosed that former Illinois congressman and U.S. Transportation Secretary LaHood, in 2019, paid a $40,000 fine for allegedly making misleading statements to federal agents about a loan and failing to disclose it on ethics forms.Jacquelyn Martin/AP
PEORIA, Ill. (AP) Former Illinois congressman and U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood in 2019 paid a $40,000 fine for allegedly making misleading statements to federal agents about a loan and failing to disclose it on ethics forms, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
Originally published on April 2, 2021 9:18 am
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Ray LaHood, a Department of Transportation secretary during President Barack Obama’s first term.
LOS ANGELES (CN) Former U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood and a France-based billionaire paid fines to resolve separate probes that appear to be tied to a wider federal investigation into unlawful campaign contributions to U.S. political candidates, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
Gilbert Chagoury, 75, paid a $1.8 million fine to resolve prosecutors’ allegations that he and his middlemen made approximately $180,000 in contributions to the U.S. election campaigns of four candidates for federal office.
As a foreign national, Chagoury who lives in Paris is prohibited by federal law from making financial contributions to any U.S. election.