Complex sentence: After a long legal battle, he was acquitted of any wrongdoing, and his accuser, General James Wilkinson, was ordered to issue an apology, but the negative publicity kept him out of politics for more than a decade.
Split into simpler sentences: After a long legal battle, he was acquitted of any wrongdoing; and his accuser, General James Wilkinson, was ordered to issue an apology. The negative publicity kept him out of politics for more than a decade.