Former Arizona Congressman
Rick Renzi was scheduled to be released from federal prison January 7,2017 after
serving a 3-year sentence for corruption.
Renzi was actually
released from custody at a halfway house in the Washington, D.C., area early
Friday morning, the U.S. Marshals Service said.
Renzi was
convicted in 2013 of conspiring to use his congressional post to make companies
buy his ex-business associate's land so the associate could repay a debt
to Renzi.
Prosecutors
said Renzi looted a family insurance business to help pay for his
2002 campaign, but he wasn't convicted of illegally using money from the firm.
Renzi was
convicted of filing false statements with regulators after failing to use
premiums collected from nonprofit groups to buy policies.
Renzi represented
Arizona's 1st Congressional District from 2003 to 2009. Source
