California Rep. Duncan Hunter pleaded guilty Tuesday to a single charge of conspiring with his wife to use at least $150,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses under a plea deal that a former federal prosecutor called “great” for the congressman who had faced 60 counts.
The defendant was tied to a U.S. Coast Guard project in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico and proposed deals with the Department of Veterans Affairs in Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Maine.