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A former member of the state legislature from Shelby County to plead guilty to conspiracy to commit honest services fraud, according to court documents and a petition to enter a guilty plea filed late Thursday in the Southern District Court of Indiana.
Sean Eberhart is the former Indiana state representative from Shelby County and the former District 57 which included portions of Hancock and Bartholomew counties.
The maximum prison sentence for the charge is up to five years, up to a $250,000 fine and three years of supervised release.
A specific sentence has not been agreed upon according to the court documents and is at discretion of the court. It does note that $60,000 restitution is to be paid.
The court documents do not state specific details as to how the listed crime was committed.
Below, the opening two pages of the court documents as filed in the Southern District Court of Indiana. More to come on this story as it develops.
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