A former U.S. congressman from California has been charged with more than two dozen federal counts that include money laundering, wire fraud, and campaign fraud, the Justice Department (DOJ) said in an Aug. 16 statement.
The charges against Terrance John “T.J.” Cox include 15 counts of wire fraud, 11 counts of money laundering, one count of financial institution fraud, and one count of campaign contribution fraud, according to the DOJ.
Cox, 59, a Democrat from Fresno, represented California’s 21st Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives from 2019 to 2021.
He allegedly “perpetrated multiple fraud schemes targeting companies he was affiliated with and their clients and vendors,” the DOJ said in the statement….