Former Senate President Michael O'Keefe is sentenced to 19 years and seven months in prison after spending nearly three years appealing a 1996 conviction for bilking millions of dollars from a failed insurance company. He is acquitted of racketeering and conspiracy charges but is convicted on two counts of interstate communications in aid of racketeering. He was expelled from the Senate in 1998 despite his acquittal. A jury convicts lobbyist Gerard Evans of fraud in the case. In 1994, a group of current and former lawmakers were fined thousands of dollars for violating ethics and disclosure laws.
Stallings resigns soon afterward.
Rep. Bob Johnson , who has history of drunken driving arrests, pleads guilty in 1997 to bribery and mail fraud and is sentenced to a four-year prison term. Senate Majority Leader Roger Moe and two staffers are indicted in 1996 on six charges that they violated campaign laws, using state time and equipment to do so. Charges are later dismissed. Sen. Kevin Chandler decides not to seek re-election after he pleads guilty in 1996 to charges that he hit his wife. In exchange for his guilty pleas, prosecutors drop four other charges.