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FILE - In this March 24, 2015, file photo, then Kansas state Sen. Michael O'Donnell, a Wichita Republican, speaks to a colleague at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback says his office received a letter Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, saying federal officials had intercepted calls to his office from O’Donnell, a former state senator now serving on the Sedgwick County Commission. The governor said the letter from the U.S. Department of Justice is similar to one that news reporters and others in Wichita have received. Donnell told reporters Wednesday he was shocked to learn that his phone was tapped in 2015 when he was in the Senate. (AP Photo/Nicholas Clayton, File)
FILE – In this March 24, 2015, file photo, then Kansas state Sen. Michael O’Donnell, a Wichita Republican, speaks to a colleague at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. Then Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback said his office received a letter Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017, saying federal officials had intercepted calls to his office from O’Donnell, a former state senator now serving on the Sedgwick County Commission. The governor said the letter from the U.S. Department of Justice is similar to one that news reporters and others in Wichita have received. Donnell told reporters Wednesday he was shocked to learn that his phone was tapped in 2015 when he was in the Senate. (AP Photo/Nicholas Clayton, File)

WICHITA — A federal indictment charges Sedgwick County Commissioner Michael O’Donnell with financial crimes related to campaign funds.

The indictment unsealed Friday includes five counts of wire fraud, five counts of bank fraud and two counts of money laundering. The 33-year-old Wichita man was issued a summons to appear May 9 in court.

O’Donnell did not respond to phone and email messages, and court records do not indicate an attorney.

Prosecutors allege O’Donnell put campaign money into his personal bank account and filed false reports with the Kansas Governmental Ethics Commission.

O’Donnell, a Republican, was elected to the Kansas State Senate in 2012 for a term that ended in January 2017. He did not run for re-election and instead was elected to the Sedgwick County Commission for a term set to expire in 2020.

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