New Details Revealed in Corruption Case as Oaks Cops Plea, Ending Political Career

Former state Sen. Nathaniel T. Oaks pleaded guilty to two felony fraud charges Thursday in a political corruption case that federal investigators had built against him, acknowledging in U.S. District Court in Baltimore that he had engaged in a bribery scheme later revealed to be a sting operation.

Within hours of formally resigning his Maryland Senate seat, Oaks, 71, stood before U.S. District Court Judge Richard D. Bennett and pleaded guilty to two of 10 charges brought in a November indictment – one count of wire fraud and one count of “honest services” wire fraud.

 

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New Details Revealed in Corruption Case as Oaks Cops Plea, Ending Political Career