{"id":8791,"date":"2026-02-25T10:52:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:52:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/federal-prosecutors-seek-2-year-prison-sentence-for-former-missouri-house-speaker-john-diehl\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T10:52:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T16:52:09","slug":"federal-prosecutors-seek-2-year-prison-sentence-for-former-missouri-house-speaker-john-diehl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westplexnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/25\/federal-prosecutors-seek-2-year-prison-sentence-for-former-missouri-house-speaker-john-diehl\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal prosecutors seek 2-year prison sentence for former Missouri House Speaker John Diehl"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/diehl-and-gavel-1024x576.jpeg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption>\n<p>John Diehl during his time in the Missouri House of Representatives (Tim Bommel\/Missouri House Communications). <\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span>Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence former Missouri House Speaker John Diehl to two years in prison in his federal COVID relief fraud case, arguing his admitted misuse of nearly $380,000 in pandemic aid \u201cshould merit a significant punishment.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>In a sentencing memorandum filed Monday in U.S. District Court in St. Louis, Assistant U.S. Attorney Hal Goldsmith urged the court to sentence Diehl within the federal guideline range of 21 to 27 months. Prosecutors say that range is appropriate given what they describe as Diehl\u2019s \u201csubstantial criminal conduct\u201d involving disaster relief money intended to help businesses and workers during the pandemic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Diehl, a St. Louis-area attorney and former Republican House speaker, pleaded guilty in September to wire fraud. Federal prosecutors said he admitted defrauding the U.S. Small Business Administration out of $379,900 through an Economic Injury Disaster Loan and a later loan modification obtained through false representations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The government\u2019s filing lays out in detail how prosecutors say the money was spent.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to the memorandum, the first $1,000 in loan proceeds was used to pay Diehl\u2019s personal country club dues and fees. Prosecutors also say he used the funds for personal expenses including payments on a Tesla, Audi and Jeep, mortgage payments, pool maintenance, additional country club charges and cash withdrawals. The filing also says he used about $200,000 of the loan money to fund a defined benefit plan for his law firm in which he was the sole participant.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prosecutors further allege Diehl used some of the funds to pay off \u201ca civil settlement related to his time as Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives.\u201d The memorandum does not specify the nature of that settlement or whether it is connected to the scandal that forced him from office in 2015 which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kansascity.com\/news\/politics-government\/article20822424.html\" target=\"_blank\">involved sending sexually inappropriate text messages to a 19-year-old House intern<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Goldsmith argued that the fraud was especially serious because, in the government\u2019s view, there is no evidence Diehl\u2019s law practice suffered the sort of pandemic-related economic harm the EIDL program was designed to address.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Last month, Diehl <a href=\"https:\/\/missouriindependent.com\/2026\/01\/21\/ex-missouri-house-speaker-john-diehl-seeks-to-avoid-prison-in-covid-loan-fraud-case\/\">asked the court for a non-custodial sentence<\/a>, arguing in part that he repaid the money. Prosecutors pushed back on that argument in Monday\u2019s filing, saying repayment should not be treated as an \u201cextraordinary\u201d basis for leniency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The government said Diehl is a \u201cman of great and substantial means\u201d and argued that his prepayment of restitution is not comparable to cases in which defendants sell assets, cash in savings or take extra work to make victims whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Prosecutors also pointed to Diehl\u2019s background in public office, writing that his education and political career underscored that he \u201cknew better than to engage in the charged fraud scheme.\u201d The memorandum notes Diehl\u2019s service in the Missouri House, including as speaker, and references a 2023 Missouri Ethics Commission consent order involving improper campaign spending and a fee of $47,392.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cThrough his education and public office,\u201d Goldsmith wrote, \u201c(Diehl) had every privilege and opportunity, and to put it bluntly, he knew better than to engage in the charged fraud scheme.\u201d<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Diehl during his time in the Missouri House of Representatives (Tim Bommel\/Missouri House Communications). 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