Steve Buyer served Indiana in Congress from 1993 to 2011.
09/19/2023 10:04 PM EDTNEW YORK — A former U.S. congressperson from Indiana was sentenced Tuesday to 22 months in prison for making illegal stock trades based on inside information while working as a consultant and lobbyist after he left office.
Buyer, a lawyer and Persian Gulf War veteran, once chaired the House Veterans’ Affairs committee and was a House prosecutor at ex-President Bill Clinton’s 1998 impeachment trial. Defense lawyers had requested home confinement and community service as a punishment while prosecutors urged a three-year prison sentence.
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