HARRISBURG — Mike Veon, a onetime Harrisburg reformer who became the consummate insider illegally using tax dollars to run his campaigns and others, will pay back with 6 to 14 years of his life.

That’s the sentence Dauphin County Judge Richard A. Lewis handed out Friday as punishment for 14 criminal convictions involving government corruption.

Mr. Veon also must pay $100,000 in restitution and at least $37,000 in fines.

Mr. Veon was ordered to jail immediately. His attorneys have filed an emergency appeal to state Superior Court to have him released on bail, but no hearing has been scheduled yet.

The sentencing came three years after investigators began probing the use of more than $1.5 million in state-funded bonuses given to state employees who worked on campaigns. The Post-Gazette first reported the connection between bonuses and campaign work in early 2007.

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