Posted on 07/14/2015 4:40:47 AM PDT by HomerBohn
Conservative scribe Dinesh D’Souza has to perform a lot more community service for breaking campaign-finance laws than he thought, with a federal judge saying Monday that D’Souza has to do eight hours each week for the entire five years he’s on probation and not just the eight months he was confined to a halfway house. The judge also read aloud a report from a court-appointed psychologist who calledD’Souza “arrogant”and “intolerant of others’ feelings.”
Powerhouse defense attorney Ben Brafman was surprised when Manhattan federal court Judge Richard Berman clarified the sentence he handed down after D’Souza pleaded guilty last year, which means D’Souza will have to do over 1,600 hours more service than he initially thought. “We’re talking about five years of eight hours a week? … This is a very serious impediment to obtaining full-time employment because you miss one day of work a week,” Brafman said in the conference inside Berman’s robing room, as D’Souza listened in silently via speakerphone.
“In my mind it was never contemplated that the eight hours only applied to the period of home confinement,” Berman said, later reading out a report from a psychologist who saw D’Souza and then ordering him to continue attending weekly sessions. “The client tends to deny problems and isn’t very introspective,” the psychiatrist wrote. “The client tends to deny problems and is arrogant and intolerant of others’ feelings.”
D’Souza — the maker of the anti-President Obama film “2016: Obama’s America” — did hear some good news during the proceeding. So long as D’Souza stays on track with his community service, he will be allowed to visit his daughter in London and his elderly mom in India later this year, Berman said.
D’Souza pleaded guilty last year to illegally shelling out $20,000 in contributions in the name of others for Republican Wendy Long’s failed 2012 bid to defeat Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY).
Brafman waived D’Souza’s appearance at the conference as he lives in California.
This is incredible.
On May 21, 1998, he was named by President Bill Clinton to a seat on the District Court for the Southern District of New York that had been vacated by Kevin Thomas Duffy.
He was confirmed by the United States Senate on October 21, 1998. He assumed senior status on September 11, 2011.
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One of The Pantload Felon's thugs.
Pedophiles and murderers can be coddled, but political dissent will not be tolerated.
I bet Dinesh is taking careful notes of this whole experience. I hope he has a camera.
Poor Dinesh; if he’d only been a Stalinist and exceeded campaign finance laws in favor of Obama, he’d be collecting trophies on stage instead of picking up trash in the streets.
Clearly, this judge is a wholly owned and operated subsidiary of Leftist America, Inc.
Anyplace where he can continue to snort and slurp at the government trough.
When Americans wake up (hopefully before the bombs start falling on our cities) and take back what was stolen from us.
Imagine. In 'freedom' the USA is ranked at 17!
Under a proper Conservative government of the right, this lousy judge, along with hundreds of others, should be investigated and hounded until they either resign or commit suicide.
D’Souza’s punishment will not end with the end of his 5 years. He will probably be “violated” long before that time and have to serve the entire sentence after that in prison. He dissed Hussein credibly and must pay and be an example to others.
...”he will be allowed to visit his daughter in London and his elderly mom in India later this year, Berman said.”
If he is so intolerant and arrogant, why would he visit them?
Look at our President, he doesn’t visit his relatives.
“Didn’t Justice Kennendy say that “At the heart of liberty is the right to define one’s own concept of existence”?”
Perhaps D’Souza should appeal to Justice Kennedy.
Jurist ignores physicians, orders more brainwashing for Dinesh
Proof that liberals consider devoted conservatives crazy.
If D’Souza keeps a chronicle of all of this dog and pony show, it’s his next million-selling book.
He should escape to the free world and apply for asylum.
Where is the free world again?
Best to keep track of these liberal monsters. We’re not getting out of this peacefully, nor will there be peace until they are gone.
I want to know Manhattan federal court Judge Richard Berman.
Indeed. What the actual ***k.
As to your Soviet Union reference, I authored a quote ten years ago: "First we beat the Soviet Union. Then we became them."
I'd say he's been violated for a long time, already.
Dead on.
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