Oxley, co-author of landmark U.S. anti-fraud law, dies at 71

Former U.S. Representative Mike Oxley, a 12-term Republican congressman from Ohio who co-sponsored a landmark 2002 law to fight corporate fraud, died on Friday at the age of 71, officials said. “Mike personified a true public servant who loved serving his constituents, Ohio, and the United States of America,” Oxley's successor in Congress, Representative Bob Latta, said in a statement. Oxley died while asleep at his home in McLean, Virginia, according to the Courier newspaper in Findlay, Ohio.

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Oxley, co-author of landmark U.S. anti-fraud law, dies at 71