HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Legislature’s practices went on trial Monday along with a former state lawmaker and three of his aides, as prosecutors and defense attorneys described how taxpayer resources have been used to run campaigns while disagreeing sharply about who was to blame.

The attorney general’s office and lawyers for two of the four defendants made opening statements to a Dauphin County jury in the case against former Rep. Mike Veon and onetime legislative aides Brett Cott, Stephen Keefer and Annamarie Perretta-Rosepink. They are charged with theft, conspiracy and conflict of interest.

Lawyers for Cott and Perretta-Rosepink are scheduled to address the jury Tuesday, after which testimony will begin in what could be a monthlong trial.

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