Ex-Indiana lawmaker sentenced in casino money scheme


              FILE - John Keeler, then-vice president and general counsel for Spectacle Entertainment, addresses the members of the Indiana Gaming Commission in Indianapolis, Aug. 28, 2019. Former Republican Indiana state senator, Brent Waltz, was sentenced Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, to 10 months in prison for his role in a scheme that illegally funneled money from a casino company to his unsuccessful 2016 congressional campaign.  Keeler's sentencing hearing was also scheduled Wednesday afternoon. Keeler, a lawyer who was a Republican legislator for 16 years in the 1980s and 90s, pleaded guilty in April 2022 to filing a false tax return for claiming as a business expense $41,000 that the casino company paid to a political consultant who prosecutors say made the political contributions through straw donors. (Doug McSchooler/Chicago Tribune via AP, File)
            
              FILE - Then-Sen. Brent Waltz, R-Indianapolis, speaks during a joint committee hearing at the Statehouse in Indianapolis, Jan. 6, 2012. The former Indiana state senator was sentenced Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2022, to 10 months in prison for his role in a scheme that illegally funneled money from a casino company to his unsuccessful 2016 congressional campaign. (AP Photo/Michael Conroy, File)
Ex-Indiana lawmaker sentenced in casino money scheme