U.S. Rep. Jeff Fortenberry of was convicted on Thursday on charges that he lied to federal authorities about an illegal $30,000 contribution to his campaign from a foreign billionaire at a 2016 Los Angeles fundraiser.A federal jury in deliberated about two hours before finding the nine-term guilty of one count of falsifying and concealing material facts and two counts of making false statements. Fortenberry was charged after sitting for two interviews with agents who were investigating the donor, Gilbert Chagoury, a Nigerian billionaire of Lebanese descent.
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