Robert Creamer's "dirty tricks" organization up and running again.
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Thanks for the reminder.
Robert Creamer is an American political consultant, community organizer, and author. He is the husband of Democratic congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, the Congressional Representative for Illinois’s 9th congressional district.[1] His firm, Democracy Partners, works with issue campaigns. He also leads the nonprofit group Americans United for Change.[2]
In 2005, Creamer pleaded guilty to tax violations and $2.3 million in bank fraud in relation to paying checks with insufficient funds, to fund his public interest group in the 1990s.[1] He repaid the funds, and was convicted and sentenced to five months in prison at Terre Haute and eleven months house arrest.[2][3]
Creamer resigned from his consulting position with the Democratic National Committee in October 2016 after a video was released which showed him discussing a scheme to pay people to incite violence at rallies for the Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump.[4][5] The footage showed Creamer discussing fraudulent voting arrangements, although he did not endorse the methods discussed and voiced concern to the potential donor that those efforts would be tantamount to voter fraud. Creamer and Democratic Party spokespeople subsequently described the conversations as “hypothetical” and denied that the tactics described had been used.[4]