Ричард Келли: Сыбайлас жемқорлыққа қатысқан американдық саяхатшы

American politician

Richard Kelly (July 31, 1924 – August 22, 2005) was an American politician from Florida. He was a Republican. He was convicted of taking bribes in the 1980 Abscam scandal.

Kelly was born July 31, 1924, in Atlanta, Georgia, and his mother abandoned him in an orphanage at an early age. He attended a one room school in Crystal Springs, Florida. He served in the United States Marine Corps from 1942 to 1946, attended Colorado State College of Education and Vanderbilt College of Law, and graduated from the University of Florida College of Law in Florida with a Juris Doctor in 1952. While in Colorado, he married for the first of five times. This included the passage of an impeachment in the State House in 1963, with him being acquitted in his impeachment trial of the charges detailed in the articles of impeachment. Troubled by accusations of insanity in the 1970s, Kelly allowed himself to be examined by doctors, who declared him sane, allowing him to boast that he was "the only Congressman officially certified as not cuckoo." He served three terms in the House of Representatives, starting in 1975. He opposed Food Stamps, aid to
the failing Chrysler Corporation and financially troubled New York City.

In 1980, Kelly was involved in the FBI undercover Abscam scandal and failed to win renomination, losing to Republican Bill McCollum. Kelly was the only Republican member of the House to vote against the expulsion of fellow Abscam target Michael Myers (D PA). Myers was expelled by a 376 30 vote on October 2, 1980, the House's first expulsion since 1861. Kelly was convicted of taking $25,000 in bribes. He claimed he had conducted his own undercover operation and spent part of the money to maintain that cover, but was convicted and served thirteen months of a 6 to 18 month sentence at the federal prison camp at Eglin Air Force Base. During his third term, he also divorced his wife and married his secretary. Kelly died August 22, 2005, in Stevensville, Montana after suffering for years with Pick's disease.