長，率いるing to 刑務所，拘置所, Hartsell gets 保護監察 after 明言する／公表する 嘆願
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - A former North Carolina 立法議員 who 捜査官／調査官s say spent more than $200,000 in 選挙資金s on vacations, スピード違反 tickets, haircuts and other personal expenses received 保護監察 in 明言する／公表する 法廷，裁判所 on Friday, に引き続いて a 連邦の 裁判官's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to send him to 刑務所，拘置所.
Fletcher Hartsell, 70, was a 共和国の／共和党の 上院議員 for 26 years before he decided against another run last year. He had become the longest-serving 国会議員 in his 議会, with leadership positions under both GOP and Democratic 大多数s, as a 共同の （選挙などの）運動をする 財政／金融 調査 最終的に 設立する he broke 明言する／公表する and 連邦の 法律s.
Hartsell pleaded 有罪の to three 明言する／公表する counts of とじ込み／提出するing 誤った （選挙などの）運動をする 報告（する）／憶測s, and Superior 法廷，裁判所 裁判官 Donald Stephens gave him a 一時停止するd 宣告，判決 and 18 months' unsupervised 保護監察, essentially agreeing with Wake 郡 地区 弁護士／代理人／検事 Lorrin Freeman that his 連邦の 罰s are enough.
Former North Carolina 立法議員 Fletcher Hartsell, left, and his 弁護士／代理人／検事 Wade Smith leave after a 審理，公聴会 at the Wake 郡 courthouse Friday morning, May 19, 2017, in Raleigh, N.C. Hartsell, who 捜査官／調査官s say spent more than $200,000 in 選挙資金s on vacations, スピード違反 tickets, haircuts and other personal expenses received 保護監察 in 明言する／公表する 法廷，裁判所 on Friday, に引き続いて a 連邦の 裁判官's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to send him to 刑務所，拘置所. Hartsell pleaded 有罪の on Tuesday, May 16, in 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 to three 連邦の 税金 and 詐欺 counts. He received eight months in 刑務所，拘置所 and was ordered to 支払う／賃金 $63,500 to the IRS. (Chris Seward/The News & 観察者／傍聴者 経由で AP)
Under 宣告，判決ing 法律s, Hartsell could not have received 刑務所，拘置所 time for the 明言する／公表する 告発（する），告訴（する）／料金s in any 事例／患者.
A 連邦の 大陪審 last 落ちる 起訴するd Hartsell on more than 20 counts 伴う／関わるing a １０年間 of expenses. He pleaded 有罪の to three 連邦の 税金 and 詐欺 counts, and was 宣告，判決d on Tuesday to eight months in 刑務所，拘置所 and $63,500 in restitution to the IRS.
"I am sorry you are here," Stephens told Hartsell, who stood to hear his 罰.
"It's a 広大な／多数の／重要な 失望 to have been s uch a 罰金 立法議員 and with such an esteemed 評判, and then have it end this way is just most, most unfortunate," the 裁判官 said.
Freeman said Hartsell, while serving as his （選挙などの）運動をする 委員会's treasurer, "engaged in a pattern of deception in which he made 多重の disbursements from his （選挙などの）運動をする account to himself or to other （独立の）存在s for personal expenses."
The use of 選挙資金s in North Carolina is essentially 制限するd under a 2006 明言する／公表する 法律 to expenses tied to running for or 持つ／拘留するing public office, and to charity.
The 検察官，検事 said Hartsell 今後d （選挙などの）運動をする money to a 所有物／資産／財産 管理／経営 company he and his wife ran to 支払う／賃金 for upkeep of a building it owned and 賃貸し（する）d out. 基金s also were moved to Hartsell's 法律 会社／堅い, and to 支払う／賃金 tens of thousands of dollars in credit card 法案s.
"There is nothing that does more to erode the 信用／信任 of the public than to have a long-serving 上院議員 come to 罪を認める to 重罪s in open 法廷，裁判所," she said.
Hartsell, of Concord, 拒絶する／低下するd to comment after the 審理，公聴会, walking to the courthouse elevator with his wife.
His lawyer, Wade Smith, called it "the darkest moment in his life" but said the 結果 will not define him.
"While this 起訴 is 絶対 訂正する ... it did silence one of the 広大な／多数の／重要な 発言する／表明するs of moderation in North Carolina, and that's to our everlasting 害（を与える）," Smith said.
Hartsell must 報告（する）／憶測 for 連邦の 刑務所，拘置所 July 12.
Former North Carolina 立法議員 Fletcher Hartsell, left, 会談するs with his 弁護士／代理人／検事 Roger Smith, 権利, after he appeared in the Wake 郡 courthouse Friday morning, May 19, 2017, in Raleigh, N.C. Hartsell, who 捜査官／調査官s say spent more than $200,000 in 選挙資金s on vacations, スピード違反 tickets, haircuts and other personal expenses received 保護監察 in 明言する／公表する 法廷，裁判所 on Friday, に引き続いて a 連邦の 裁判官's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to send him to 刑務所，拘置所. Hartsell pleaded 有罪の on Tuesday, May 16, in 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 to three 連邦の 税金 and 詐欺 counts. He received eight months in 刑務所，拘置所 and was ordered to 支払う／賃金 $63,500 to the IRS. (Chris Seward/The News & 観察者／傍聴者 経由で AP)< /p>
Former North Carolina 立法議員 Fletcher Hartsell leaves the courtroom after he appeared in the Wake 郡 courthouse Friday morning, May 19, 2017, in Ra leigh, N.C. Hartsell, who 捜査官／調査官s say spent more than $200,000 in 選挙資金s on vacations, スピード違反 tickets, haircuts and other personal expenses received 保護監察 in 明言する／公表する 法廷，裁判所 on Friday, に引き続いて a 連邦の 裁判官's 決定／判定勝ち（する） to send him to 刑務所，拘置所. Hartsell pleaded 有罪の on Tuesday, May 16, in 連邦の 法廷，裁判所 to three 連邦の 税金 and 詐欺 counts. He received eight months in 刑務所，拘置所 and was ordered to 支払う／賃金 $63,500 to the IRS. (Chris Seward/The News & 観察者／傍聴者 経由で AP)
