Former Mass. Rep. Nicholas Mavroules (D) Dies

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PEABODY, Mass. (AP) -- Former Congressman Nicholas Mavroules, who served seven terms in the U.S. House before being voted out of office during a corruption scandal that sent him to prison, has died. He was 74.

Mavroules died Thursday at Salem Hospital, according to Conway, Cahill-Brodeur Funeral Home. The cause of his death was not immediately available.

Mavroules, a son of Greek immigrants, began his political career in Peabody, just north of Boston, as a city councilman and became mayor in 1967. The Democrat was elected to his first of seven terms in Congress in 1978.

In Washington, Mavroules served as chairman of the House subcommittee on investigations, helped expose major cost overruns on Navy aircraft and shed light on the deadly 1989 explosion on the USS Iowa.

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[Mairead]

1. I remember when he went to prison

Everyone wondered how he'd escaped so long.