WRAL.com archive: Frank Ballance

Supporters of former U.S. Congressman Frank Ballance held a rally Saturday honoring his community service. Less than a month ago, he finished a prison term on federal corruption charges.

In his first interview since his release from prison, Ballance told WRAL News that prosecutors used lies and threats to get him to plead guilty in 2004 to using a nonprofit to divert taxpayer money to his family, law firm and church.

Former North Carolina Congressman Frank Ballance on Tuesday completed a four-year sentence for using a nonprofit to divert taxpayer money to his family, law firm and church.

Former North Carolina Rep. Frank Ballance has filed a lawsuit claiming that the warden of the Federal Prison Camp at Butner violated his constitutional rights by denying furloughs.

The family of a former congressman made a public plea Monday for his appeal to be heard. Frank Ballance is serving a four-year federal prison sentence for mail fraud and money laundering.

The state Supreme Court on Friday upheld the disbarment and removal from the bench of former judge Garey Ballance.

Garey Ballance, a former district court judge who spent time in prison, wants to practice law again.

Former U.S. Rep. Frank Ballance is asking a judge to reduce the four-year prison sentence he began serving a year ago.

Former Rep. Frank Ballance told supporters who gathered to raise money and wish him well that he doesn't deserve the prison sentence that he's set to begin Friday.