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Convicted Ohio Congressman James Traficant Jr. Dies at 73

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By Matt Schudel Washington Post James A. Traficant Jr., an iconoclastic nine-term Ohio populist in the U.S. House of Representatives who was convicted on corruption charges in 2002, becoming the second member of Congress to be expelled since the Civil War, died Saturday, Sept. 27 at a hospital in Youngstown, Ohio. He was 73. A family…

Crooked Ohio Pol James Traficant Wants Back in the Game

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By Allan Lengel ticklethewire.com Apparently you can’t keep a good crooked politician down. Ex-Ohio Congressman James Traficant, who served seven years in prison after being convicted on public corruption charges, and was notorious for sporting a bad toupee, filed papers Monday to run in the 17th Congressional district in Ohio, a seat currently held by…