Senator Jim Lane's Secret Life As A Ghost Employee

corruptionchronicle:

When Gene Stipe’s political machine imploded, several other elected officials also paid a price for their corruption. Jim Lane was one of them.

  The Tulsa World said;

Ghost employee: Former state Sen. Jim E. Lane of McAlester was sentenced in 2003 to three years probation and two months home detention for his role in funneling illegal money into Walt Roberts’ unsuccessful 1998 congressional campaign. Of the more than $200,000 in illegal money that ended up in the Roberts campaign, most was tied to Stipe, but Lane was directly tied to less than $70,000. Lane’s sentence in the Roberts case came only six months after he was released from prison where he served seven months of a five-year sentence for defrauding the state as a “ghost employee.”

Keep reading