Ex-lawmaker faces sentencing for fraudulent campaign loans

? A former Kansas legislator is scheduled to be sentenced for defrauding a bank to help fund his political activities.

Former Republican state Rep. Trent LeDoux will be sentenced Monday. LeDoux pleaded guilty last May to bank fraud and agreed to pay $465,100 under a deal with federal prosecutors. The charge carries a maximum sentence of up to 30 years in prison, but the LeDoux is likely to get little, if any, prison time due to sentencing guidelines.

LeDoux allegedly obtained three bank loans to buy cattle, but instead he deposited $28,000 from the loans into his campaign account in late 2011 and 2012.

Although that violated federal bank fraud statutes, it was not a violation of Kansas campaign ethics laws.