Judge Decides: ‘Arrogant’ Dinesh D’Souza has to do way more community service than he thought

But he's being treated like a sex offender, being held to an arbitrary and uncertain standard of length of therapy, counseling, and shows of remorse, that are out of line with the crime.

This is a federal judge. What about these other federal cases? In all of these cases, more money was involved. Only one person served serious time due to the extreme nature of his crime. Another turned state's evidence. It's clear from these Democrat cases that they are coming down harder on D'Souza.

2011: Clinton fundraiser gets probation in coverup

A former wealth manager for crime writer Patricia Cornwell has managed to avoid prison for his role in covering up tens of thousands of dollars in illegal campaign contributions from the novelist to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign.
Evan H. Snapper received three years of probation at his sentencing last week in U.S. District Court in Washington after saying he made the contributions as an “ill-advised favor” to Ms. Cornwell.
“Mr. Snapper committed the instant offense as an ill-advised favor to Patricia Cornwell, an important and powerful client of his firm,” he wrote in court pleadings.
Snapper pleaded guilty to helping funnel $48,300 in illegal campaign donations to Mrs. Clinton’s campaign. Prosecutors say Snapper caused the Clinton campaign to “unwittingly” file false reports with the Federal Election Commission (FEC).
In describing the case, federal prosecutors have said Snapper and 20 others agreed to buy tickets to an Elton John concert in April 2008 to raise money for Mrs. Clinton’s campaign, with the understanding they all would be reimbursed by one of his clients - described as “Person A.” That person was Ms. Cornwell, according to filings in her civil case against Snapper.

2014: Hotelier Avoids Prison for Violating Campaign Finance Laws

A Democratic fund-raiser and high-profile hotelier, Sant Singh Chatwal, who had pleaded guilty to skirting federal campaign-finance laws and witness tampering, avoided being sent to prison on Thursday, despite facing a possible sentence of more than five years.
Judge I. Leo Glasser, of Federal District Court in Brooklyn, sentenced Mr. Chatwal to three years of probation. The judge described Mr. Chatwal’s crimes as an “aberrance,” and seemed swayed by the 272 letters written on his behalf; by the argument that his grown sons needed Mr. Chatwal’s help at home; and by the fact that Mr. Chatwal did not seem to personally benefit from his campaign contributions.
Mr. Chatwal, 70, is the president of Hampshire Hotels and Resorts, and his business consists of 12 hotels and 36 restaurants and bars. He leads a lively social life, as seen in the New York magazine feature on his son Vikram’s wedding and in state dinners at the White House.
He pleaded guilty in April to sending more than $180,000 in campaign contributions from 2007 to 2011 to three federal candidates, identified as Hillary Rodham Clinton, Senator Christopher J. Dodd of Connecticut and Representative Kendrick B. Meek of Florida. There is a limit on how much individuals can contribute to campaigns, so Mr. Chatwal devised an illegal straw donor scheme, prosecutors said, asking acquaintances to give, then reimbursing them.

2013: 28-month sentence for businessman who funneled cash to Hillary Clinton campaigns

A Northern Virginia businessman convicted of illegally funneling cash from his banking firm to Hillary Rodham Clinton’s senate and presidential campaigns was sentenced to two years and four months in federal prison Friday — bringing to a conclusion a case that drew national attention as it briefly challenged a longtime federal ban on corporate donations to political candidates, authorities said.
William P. Danielczyk Jr., 51, the founder of a McLean-based banking firm known as Galen Capital Group, had pleaded guilty in February to one count of making illegal conduit campaign contributions. Federal prosecutors had asked U.S. District Judge James C. Cacheris to send him away for five years, saying in court filings he was the leader of a far-reaching conspiracy that “undermined one of the core goals of the federal campaign finance laws — transparency.”
“Danielczyk left a wake of devastation in his path,” federal prosecutors wrote in court filings, noting three of his employees had also pleaded guilty in the conspiracy and coverup.
Prosecutors had accused Danielczyk and Biagi of lining up individual donors to contribute to former secretary of state Clinton’s senate and presidential campaigns in 2006 and 2008, then reimbursing them with money from Galen. They used at least 35 other employees or friends to disguise more than $186,000 in contributions, then paid back the so-called straw donors with money from Galen’s corporate coffers, court filings show.
“His conduct was far from aberrant,” prosecutors said in court filings. “On multiple occasions throughout the duration of the scheme, the defendant reimbursed the contributions of no fewer than thirty-five different individuals, most of whom were dependent upon him for their livelihoods.”

2014: Jeffrey Thompson’s plea deal: Key details

D.C. businessman Jeffrey E. Thompson pleaded guilty on Monday to illegally funneling more than $2 million to Vincent C. Gray’s successful 2010 mayoral bid, Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential run and the campaigns of other candidates in local and federal elections.
From another article: But the terms of that plea — that in return for Thompson’s cooperation, the government would agree to a sentence of no more than six months, eligible for home detention — has fueled much of the discontent aired since.

-PJ

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