HARRISBURG -- Mike Veon lost more than his freedom June 18 when he began a six- to 14-year prison sentence.

The former Democratic state representative also lost his $50,340 annual pension.

Meanwhile, his attorneys are asking Dauphin County Common Pleas Court to vacate his guilty verdict and dismiss the charges against him.

The Public Employee Pension Forfeiture Act requires lawmakers and other state workers to give up their pensions if they are convicted of certain crimes and if those illegal activities were job-related.

Those crimes include theft of services and theft by deception, which were among the 14 charges for which Mr. Veon was convicted.

Annamarie Perretta-Rosepink, the former director of Mr. Veon's district office in Beaver Falls, also was convicted of five crimes including theft of services. Under the law, she loses her pension, too.

Mrs. Perretta-Rosepink and Mr. Veon are among three defendants convicted in the government corruption case known as Bonusgate.

Brett Cott -- who is serving 21 to 60 months in prison -- is not eligible for a pension because he worked for the state less than five years.

Pension amounts are based on factors including salary, length of employment and benefit options chosen.

Mrs. Perretta-Rosepink had been eligible for an annual pension of $19,140. She chose a survivorship benefit so her husband could collect the same amount if he were to outlive her.

Instead, according to the pension law, she must forfeit those payments.

She is not required to return money she already received, including a $63,172 lump sum -- her contributions to the retirement system. However, she can be required to use that money to pay court-ordered fines and restitution, which amount to $33,000.

Mr. Veon, who started collecting his pension in early 2007, received a $126,614 lump sum when he lost re-election. He was ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution and $37,000 in fines.

In their filing Monday, Mr. Sansone and Mr. Raynak said the restitution ordered is excessive and that there is no rational basis for it. They requested a hearing aimed at decreasing the amount of restitution. Prosecutors had asked for $1.9 million.

In other motions Monday, they asked for a new trial and for a reduced sentence.

They said Dauphin County Judge Richard A. Lewis impeded their defense by imposing arbitrary time limits on cross-examination, by blocking exculpatory evidence and by allowing jurors to consider evidence that had not been vetted during testimony.

In another motion, Mr. Raynak and Mr. Sansone say that a U.S. Supreme Court ruling handed down on Thursday has implications for Mr. Veon's case. In the ruling, justices said the federal honest-services statute is too broad.

Pennsylvania's conflict-of-interest laws are vague, too, Mr. Raynak and Mr. Sansone say. Seven of Mr. Veon's convictions are for conflict of interest and two are for conspiracy to commit conflict of interest.

Prosecutors say the Supreme Court ruling is irrelevant to the Bonusgate charges.

"The state law is much more specific and the crimes are entirely different," said Nils Frederiksen, spokesman for the attorney general. "We are fully confident that Pennsylvania's conflict-of-interest law will stand."

Mr. Raynak and Mr. Sansone also allege that it was improper to replace a sick juror during the middle of deliberations and that prosecutors singled out their client for political reasons.

Mr. Veon was once the No. 2 Democrat in the state House. And the state's top prosecutor, Republican Attorney General Tom Corbett, is running for governor.

Mr. Frederiksen said the motions filed Monday mirror others that Judge Lewis already addressed before and during Mr. Veon's two-month trial.

"This appears to be another effort to confuse the facts. When you get past all these efforts to bring out the smoke and mirrors it comes down to the crimes and the law," Mr. Frederiksen said. "We feel the convictions will stand and we feel the sentence will stand."

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