Day 15: A congressman is convicted
November 16th, 2009, 2:00 am · 11 Comments · posted by Larry Welborn
Andrew Hinshaw, 1977 Register File Photo
1977: When a U.S. Congressman gets sentenced to prison, it’s big news. It happened once in Orange County.
As a conservative republican in conservative Orange County, Rep. Andrew J. Hinshaw had one of the safest seats in the House – until he was arrested and charged with accepting bribes from the Tandy Corporation in his previous job as Orange County assessor.
After a headline-making trial during which he was represented by two of the top lawyers of the day, Marshall Morgan and Robert Green, Hinshaw was convicted and sentenced to prison for one to 14 years.
He served a year. He was also convicted of misappropriating funds for using his employees in the assessor’s office and county supplies in his 1972 run for his congressional seat.
The prosecutor was Michael Capizzi, who later became Orange County’s district attorney.
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“OFF WITH THERE HEADS” ALL OF THEM!!!
Where is he now, prolly back on the gov’t payroll in some capacity
He probably died of old age already.
Hey OCR, these stories are great. keep it coming. Very interesting to read.
Sorry Larry…….. This one is a sleeper.
I wonder how many years he would have gotten today. Probably more than 1 year, hopefully anyway. Nice to read a story not involving the murder of someone, its refreshing. I think he runs a graphics firm out of Monrovia or something like that.
Larry,
This was a great idea, but most of the articles lack information and leaves obvious questions unanswered……
Maybe his intention is to inspire further research?
He never went to prison, he got to do his time at theo lacy in Orange at nights and work his same job during the day. Punishment isnt the same for everybody in Orange County. He even had a limo drive to lacy to pick him up and drop him off everyday, now thats doing hard time!
Andrew Hinshaw served one year at Chino State Mens’Prison. He did not get off or ride around in a limo. He did some farming there and then went on to lead a very non spectacular life.
another white collared criminal