Vic Kohring, a longtime Mat-Su legislator convicted in 2007 on federal corruption charges, was killed Tuesday in a head-on collision with a semi on the Glenn Highway near Palmer.
Vic Kohring greets potential voters along the Parks Highway as he seeks a Wasilla City Council seat in the Mat-Su election October 1, 2013. even after a 2007 conviction on federal corruption charges, was killed Tuesday in a head-on collision with a semi on the Glenn Highway near Palmer.He was driving a Toyota minivan just north of Palmer around 5 p.m.
Kohring was one of six legislators charged and convicted in the corruption scandal that surfaced with FBI raids on his office and others in 2006. A jury convicted him in November 2007 of extortion, bribery and conspiracy, and a federal judge sentenced him to 3 1/2 years in prison. Instead of going through a new trial on three felonies, Kohring pleaded guilty in 2011 to a single federal felony for accepting bribes and was sentenced to the time he had served in federal prison: one year, plus 18 months probation.
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