John Diehl

John Diehl served in the Missouri House from 2009 through 2015. He resigned in 2015 after being caught sending sexually explicit texts to an intern.

John Diehl admitted in federal court Thursday that he used loans that were supposed to support his law firm for personal expenses, including country club dues, college tuition, credit cards and his mortgage.

The line of questioning revealed in deposition records provides fresh details into an FBI probe that's transfixed state and local politics ever since news of it surfaced in 2019.