‘Liberal tears’ congressman convicted of fraud

By Christen Smith

Former U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman was found guilty of 23 felonies on Thursday. (Photo:Gage Skidmore/Flickr)
A former congressman from southern Texas could spend the rest of his life behind bars after a jury convicted him of 23 counts of fraud last week.
Federal law enforcement in Houston took former U.S. Rep. Stephen Stockman into custody Thursday for bilking two Republican donors out of more than $1.2 million for illegitimate charities, eventually funneling the money to pay his own expenses. Jurors convicted him on multiple counts of money laundering, mail and wire fraud, lying to the Federal Election Commission and filing a false tax return.
Stockman served two nonconsecutive terms in Congress, from 1995 until 1997 and again from 2013 to 2015, representing districts near Houston. An ardent supporter of the Second Amendment, Stockman dubbed himself “the most conservative congressman in Texas.” He made headlines when he raffled off a Bushmaster AR-15 during his reelection campaign in 2013 and again later that year when he tweeted an image of gun lubricant he dubbed “liberal tears,” which later became an actual product. He cut his political life short in a failed bid to unseat Republican Sen. John Cornyn the following year.
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Source: Guns.com