MUNCIE, Ind. — A Delaware County businessman who became a target of a federal investigation into local corruption has reported to a federal prison in Terre Haute.

Jeffery Burke, 56, in January was sentenced to six months in prison by U.S. District Court Judge Sarah Evans Barker after he pleaded guilty to bank fraud.

His prison term will be followed by six months on home detention. Judge Barker in January said Burke’s prison term would not begin for six months to perhaps reduce the risks associated with the COVID-19 pandemic.

Burke told the judge in January he had battled cancer in recent years, and also recently had COVID.

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