THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE ARTICLE BY JANA WIERSEMA
URBANA — A local state representative is accused of misusing campaign funds to benefit herself and her family, as well as using state grants to benefit her daughter and conspiring with her husband to impede federal investigation of the alleged fraud.
State Rep. Carol Ammons, D-Urbana, has been indicted on eight counts of wire fraud in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of Illinois, as well as one count of providing a false statement to a special agent of the FBI.
The state representative and her husband, Champaign County Clerk Aaron Ammons, are both charged with one count of conspiracy to obstruct justice, and Aaron Ammons is charged with one count of obstruction of justice.
The News-Gazette has reached out to both the state representative and her husband but has yet to receive a response.
The grand jury’s indictment was filed Tuesday and alleges that, from about 2017 to June 2025, state Rep. Ammons “knowingly devised a scheme” to defraud the state, taxpayers and donors to her campaign and to “obtain money and property by means of materially false pretenses, promises, and representations, including by omissions and the concealment of material information.”
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