>A Massachusetts Democrat state lawmaker was indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records, the Justice Department announced on Thursday. >Christopher Flanagan, a state rep for the First Barnstable District, was arrested for using stolen funds for personal and political expenses. >“Massachusetts State Representative for the First Barnstable District has been indicted by a federal grand jury in Boston for allegedly orchestrating a multi-faceted scheme that defrauded a local trade association of tens of thousands of dollars, used to fund personal and political expenses and falsifying records to conceal his alleged conduct,” the DOJ said. >“Christopher Flanagan, 37, of Dennis, Mass. was indicted on five counts of wire fraud and one count of falsification of records. Flanagan was arrested this morning and will appear in federal court in Boston at 2:30 p.m. today,” the DOJ said. >“FLANAGAN defrauded the HBA by (a) using his signatory authority as HBA Executive Officer to secretly withdraw tens of thousands of dollars from HBA’s bank accounts; (b) entering false information in HBA’s financial bookkeeping records; (c) providing materially false and misleading HBA financial information to the HBA Board during board meetings; and (d) creating and submitting false expense reports to the HBA Board to further conceal his fraud,” the indictment read. >For the next two years, Flanagan wired thousands of dollars to himself to fund his personal and political expenses. . . [Archive](https://archive.today/qg2NG)