A jury found former Pennsylvania Democratic whip Mike Veon, as well as his former district office manager, guilty of corruption charges stemming from misuse of state grants Monday.
The Associated Press reports:
The former Beaver County lawmaker and co-defendant Annamarie Perretta-Rosepink, the former manager of his district legislative office in Beaver Falls, are accused of misusing state grant money awarded to a nonprofit—the Beaver Initiative for Growth, or BIG—that Veon ran.
Veon served 22 years in the House. House Democrats elected him as their whip in 1998, and he held that post until voters turned him out of office in the 2006 election.