Ex-U.S. Rep. Ney completes sentence

COLUMBUS (AP) — Former Ohio congressman Bob Ney has been released from a Cincinnati halfway house after serving nearly a year-and-a-half for his role in a public corruption scandal.

Ney, a Republican who served six House terms, served nearly a year-and-a-half of his original two-and-a-half year prison sentence. The sentence was reduced after he completed treatment for alcohol problems.

He was released Friday morning from the halfway house where he had been since February. The 54-year-old previously served time at the Federal Corrections Institution in Morgantown, W.Va.

Ney, then chairman of the House administration committee, admitted trading political favors for golf trips, other gifts and campaign donations arranged by lobbyist Jack Abramoff and his associates.