Another member of Kansas’ politically active LeDoux family is likely off to prison

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• Trent LeDoux will be sentenced for bank fraud.

Alan LeDoux was a prominent figure in Republican politics for decades in Kansas. He served for six years as an aide to Sheila Frahm, the former Senate majority leader. He was also chief legislative liaison to Governors Mike Hayden and Bill Graves until 1995, when Graves set him up as director of the Kansas Water Office. There he stayed until 2002, when he was sentenced to 12 years in prison for breaking into the southwest Topeka home of one of his wife’s relatives and sodomizing her.

LeDoux was so close to his victim, in fact, that she came to stay with him and his wife following the attack, not knowing it was LeDoux who had bound her with duct tape, blindfolded her, cut off her clothes and underwear with a knife, and raped her. LeDoux then confessed to the woman in his own living room and was eventually hauled off to state prison. Heads up: He was released on parole late last year.

LeDoux’s son, Trent LeDoux, has also been active in Kansas politics. After unsuccessful campaigns for the Kansas Senate (2004) and Kansas House (2006), he was chosen to serve out the term of Kansas House Rep. Rocky Fund, following Fund’s death in 2011. The following year, Trent lost a primary campaign after redistricting put him up against another incumbent. In March of this year, a federal grand jury indicted Trent LeDoux on charges of bank fraud. Yesterday, he pleaded guilty.

Trent faces 30 years in federal prison and fines of up to $1 million, according to the Topeka Capital-Journal, for defrauding Farmers and Merchants Bank, in Colby, Kansas. Trent falsely represented to the bank that he would be using three loans totaling $465,000 to purchase cattle. In fact, he used the money to pay down his personal debts and contribute to his political campaign. Pretty illegal!

Sentencing is set for August 11.