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SUMMARY - Former St. Louis lawyer and former Republican Missouri House Speaker John J. Diehl Jr. was sentenced Monday in federal court in St. Louis to 21 months in prison and fined $50,000 after pleading guilty to wire fraud for misusing $379,900 in federal COVID-19 relief loans intended to help small businesses during the pandemic.

NOTE - Diehl's resignation from politics is not elaborated upon in the article and some may misappropriate the resignation with the Covid-19 relief loan. Instead, he resigned from office due a prior scandal unrelated to his Covid-19 relief fund activities.

LINK - https://www.riverbender.com/news/details/former-missouri-speaker-of-house-sentenced-for-covid-loan-fraud-91467.cfm