Prosecutor wants jail time for Dinesh D'Souza

Saying that the defendant had offered no proof that he felt remorse for his crime, a New York prosecutor is asking a judge to send Dinesh D'Souza to jail for violating campaign finance laws.

D'Souza pled guilty to making straw donations to the 2012 United States Senate campaign of Wendy E. Long. He asked two friends and their wives to donate the maximum to Long's campaign - $20,000 in all - and then reimbursed them, thus exceeding the $5,000 limit on donations per election cycle.

Considering all the chicanery conducted by the Obama campaigns of 2008 and 2012, where millions of dollars in illegal campaign contributions came in, the idea of sending D'Souza to jail for a $20,000 violation of the law is absurd and laughable.

New York Times:

In seeking a prison term for Mr. D’Souza, 53, the government disputed his lawyer’s contention in recent court papers that his client had “unequivocally accepted responsibility” for his crime.

“The defendant pled guilty at the last possible moment before trial began,” prosecutors wrote, “not because he actually accepted responsibility for his conduct, but because he was in fact guilty and he had no defense or excuse for his criminal conduct.”

“The defendant’s crime is serious and strikes at the heart of our federal election system,” prosecutors added.
The government had said Mr. D’Souza arranged in August 2012 to have two friends each donate $10,000 on behalf of themselves and their spouses to Ms. Long’s campaign, with the understanding that Mr. D’Souza would reimburse their contributions. That resulted in a contribution of $20,000, exceeding the $5,000 individual limit for the 2012 election cycle.

....aaaaand while lying Kenyan occupies WHut and RATsenators and congreeters are getting away with gross violations of Constitution and other laws.

Do we need to bring Ukrainians from Maidan to show America how to get rid of SCUM?????

Outrageous!!!

This is a tactic from the left, Lawfare. The idea is to prosecute any and all political opposition using campaign finance laws to arrest,prosecute, and criminalize any conservative fund raising. It gets played up in the cooperative media with the “all conservatives are corrupt hypocrites” template to educate the masses that being conservative is a crime both legally and morally. They also get the added benefit of tying up the conservative organizations in court spending any money available defending themselves and not for their main mission in the political arena.The leftist prosecutors also get to see donor list which they can leak to the leftist media or use to widen their “investigation” to prevent any more donations to these “criminal organizations”.This is why our friends the democracts are so eager to push “campaign finance reform laws”.Of course Teacher’s Unions,Municipal & State Employees Unions,the NAACP or any of Soro’s funded front groups wouldn’t have any trouble as these are civic minded organizations that are only out to improve the public welfare and educate the public politically with the “real facts”.

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