Illinois Rep. Aaron Schock billed taxpayers for more than $ 10,000 on private flights last fall , including a trip on a private jet to a Chicago Bears football game . The flights last November do n't include more than a dozen other trips on donors ' planes that Schock has paid for out of his House office expenses or campaign funds since joining Congress in 2009 . Schock , a 33-year-old Republican representing Peoria , had already been facing scrutiny for using congressional funds to redecorate his Capitol Hill office in the style of the TV show 'Downton Abbey . ' He repaid those charges last month out of his own pocket ; his office had said it 's reviewing other expenses . Rep. Aaron Schockis accused of billing taxpayers for more than $ 10,000 on private flights last fall that included a trip to a Chicago Bears football game . Schock and his entourage flew in an Eclipse 500 aircraft like this one . The Chicago Sun-Times reported Sunday night that Schock flew from Peoria , Illinois to Chicago to attend a Bears game against the Minnesota Vikings on November 16 , 2014 . Overall , according to the paper , he used $ 20,855 in taxpayer money for the Chicago trip and another to New York in September , where his political action committee spent another $ 3,000 for tickets to the Global Citizen Festival concert . This week Schock reportedly hired a pair of lawyers to audit his political and legislative operations . Spokesmen for Schock declined to comment to the Sun-Times and the Chicago Tribune , and did not respond to a request from Daily Mail Online . In a statement last week they said a legal team was already poring over 'compliance procedures in his official office , campaign and leadership PAC to determine whether they can be improved . ' The football game was part of a longer trip on a chartered six-seat business jet that took off from a civil aviation airport in Manassas , Virginia en route to Peoria on a Friday . The Bears defeated the Vikings but the game may ultimately defeat a congressman . DOWNTON OFFICE : Schock spent $ 40,000 in taxpayer funds redecorating his Capitol Hill office , but had to pay the money back . The Sunday trip was a sideline before the aircraft returned to Washington , D.C. 's Ronald Reagan National Airport a day later . All the seats were filled , according to pilot Keith Siilats , who told the Sun-Times that Schock 's district director Dayne LaHood and three others were aboard . He also said he accompanied the congressman and his group to the football game . He was paid $ 10,802 for 'commercial transportation ' in November , the last month for which numbers are available . 'That whole weekend was paid by the government , ' he said . Schock 'called me on Saturday and said `` what do you think about ’ a Chicago trip ? '' ' Siilats recalled for the paper . Chicago Bears single-game tickets range in cost from $ 106 to $ 430 . It 's not clear who paid for them .
Illinois Republican used his House office expense budget for more than $ 10,000 in private flights including the November NFL jaunt . Took his district director , his pilot and six others to see the Bears play the Minnesota Vikings in November . He has had to pay back taxpayers for $ 40,000 in office renovations styled after 'Downton Abbey '