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Laurence Tribe @tribelaw 2h2 hours agoTrumps Dinesh DSouza pardon today, on top of his pardons of Scooter Libby and Joe Arpaio, make sense only as an elephant-whistle to Michael Cohen & all who know damning things about Trump: protect me & Ill have your back. Turn on me & your goose is cooked. More obstruction!
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September 23, 2014
Dinesh DSouza Sentenced in Manhattan Federal Court to Five Years of Probation for Campaign Finance Fraud
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, announced today that DINESH DSOUZA was sentenced in Manhattan federal court to five years of probation, with eight months during the first year to be served in a community confinement center, after having pled guilty to violating the federal campaign election law by making illegal contributions to a United States Senate campaign in the names of others. DSOUZA was sentenced today before U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman.
Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara stated: Dinesh DSouza attempted to illegally contribute over $10,000 to a Senate campaign, wilfully undermining the integrity of the campaign finance process. Like many others before him, of all political stripes, he has had to answer for this crime here with a felony conviction.
According to the Indictment, prior court filings, and statements made in court:
The Federal Election Campaign Act (the Election Act) is designed to limit financial influence in the election of candidates for federal office, including the Office of United States Senator, and provides for the public disclosure of the financing of federal election campaigns. In particular, the Election Act limits the amount and source of money that may be contributed to a federal candidate or that candidates authorized campaign committee. The Election Act specifically prohibits any person from making any contribution in the name of another, including reimbursing a third person, before or after that third persons contribution, as inducement to make that contribution.
In 2012, the Election Act limited campaign contributions to $5,000 from any individual to any one candidate. In March 2012, DSOUZA contributed $10,000 to the Senate campaign of Wendy Long on behalf of himself and his wife, agreeing in writing to attribute that contribution as $5,000 from his wife and $5,000 from him. In August 2012, DSOUZA directed other individuals with whom he was associated, namely his assistant and a woman with whom DSOUZA was romantically involved (the Straw Donors), to make contributions to Wendy Longs campaign for the United States Senate (the Long Campaign) on behalf of themselves and their spouses that totaled $20,000 with the promise that he would reimburse them for the contributions. Later that same day or the next day, DSOUZA, as promised, reimbursed the Straw Donors $10,000 each in cash for the contributions. When confronted by Ms. Long, DSOUZA initially misled the candidate before admitting what he had done.
During the plea proceeding, DSOUZA admitted before the Court that he caused two close associates to contribute $10,000 each to the Long Campaign with the understanding that he would reimburse them for their contributions and that he did reimburse them. DSOUZA also admitted that he knew that what he was doing was wrong and something the law forbids.
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In addition to the probationary term with confinement to a community center, Judge Berman sentenced DSOUZA, 53, of San Diego, California, to a mandatory eight-hour day of community service every week of his five-year term of probation, weekly counseling sessions, and ordered him to pay a $30,000 fine, as well as a $100 special assessment.
Judge Berman previously denied DSOUZAs pretrial motion to dismiss the indictment for selective prosecution, ruling that there was no evidence to support DSOUZAs allegation. In sentencing DSOUZA, Judge Berman referred to his prior ruling and remarked that the defendants claim of selective prosecution, legally speaking, is all hat, no cattle.
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Trump Pardoning Yet Another Convicted Felon From His Party (Original Post)
bigtree
May 2018
OP
Sophia4
(3,515 posts)1. For Trump, winning is more important than the rule of law.
That tears our system apart because our system is based on the rule of law.
Trump is not just ruining our country. He is tearing our system apart.
If we can't have fair and just elections, what do we have?
We need to limit campaign expenditures and contributions and enforce those limitations.