Ex-House Speaker Gets Prison in COVID Loan Fraud
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March 9, 2026
A former speaker of the Missouri House is headed to federal prison. John Diehl, 60, was sentenced Monday to nearly two years behind bars for fraudulently obtaining $379,900 in pandemic relief funds and spending the money on personal expenses, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Defense attorney John Rogers had...
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