CLEVELAND, Ohio – Funeral arrangements were pending Monday morning for former Ohio congressman James Traficant, who died Saturday at the age of 73.
Traficant was injured Tuesday when a vintage tractor flipped over on him as he tried to park it inside a barn on the family farm near Youngstown.
The Democrat lost his political career after being convicted of taking bribes and kickbacks.
Mahoning County Democratic Party chairman Dave Betras says he was notified by the Traficant family attorney that Traficant had died in the hospital.
Traficant’s expulsion from Congress in 2002 came three months after a federal jury convicted him. Prosecutors said he used his office to extract bribes from businesspeople and coerced staffers to work on his farm and his house boat in Washington. He spent seven years in prison.