ROXANA HEGEMAN, Associated Press
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former state lawmaker will soon learn his punishment for defrauding a bank to help fund his political activities.
Forty-one-year-old Trent LeDoux of Holton is expected to be in federal court Monday in Topeka for sentencing. A federal grand jury indicted the Republican member of the Kansas House a year ago.
LeDoux pleaded guilty in May 2014 to bank fraud and agreed to pay $465,100. But his sentencing has been pushed back several times since then while he undergoes treatment for various health issues.
While he was in office, LeDoux obtained three loans from Farmers and Merchants Bank in Colby to buy cattle, purportedly using the livestock as collateral for the loans. Instead he deposited the loan proceeds into his campaign account and paid off other debts.