A timeline of events in the Fattah case

Chronology of events that culminated with the indictment Wednesday of Congressman Chaka Fattah:

* November 1983: Fattah elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

* November 1988: Fattah elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate.

* November 1995: Fattah elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

* May 2007: Fattah loses to Michael Nutter in the Democratic mayoral primary race.

* March 2013: IRS and FBI officially launch investigation into Fattah's finances, zeroing in on an illegal $1 million loan that he received during his failed 2007 run for mayor.

* March 2014: Fattah vows to fight a federal subpoena that sought access to his congressional records.

* March 2014: Chaka Fattah Jr. files a $10 million lawsuit against the IRS, alleging the agency ruined his reputation and career by the way it handled a 2012 raid on his apartment.

* August 2014: Fattah Jr. indicted, charged with falsifying income tax returns, making false statements to obtain a loan.

* August 2014: Fattah's former chief of staff, Gregory Naylor, pleads guilty to lying to federal agents after he helped conceal the theft of federal grant funds that were used to repay campaign debt Fattah - referred to in court documents as "Elected Official A" - incurred during his failed 2007 mayoral run.

* November 2014: Fattah is easily re-elected to his 11th congressional term.

* November 2014: Thomas Lindenfeld, a former Fattah advisor, pleads guilty to wire fraud for helping Fattah misappropriate federal funds to repay his campaign debt.

* January 2015: Federal prosecutors ask a three-judge appeals panel to grant them access to seven years' worth of Fattah's private emails.

* July 29, 2015: Fattah and four associates - Bonnie Bowser, Karen Nicholas, Herbert Vederman and Robert Brand - are hit with 29-count federal indictment. Fattah resigns from his post on House Appropriations Committee.