Federal prosecutors in Manhattan said that Mr. D’Souza encouraged others to give $20,000 to a Senate candidate and reimbursed them for the donations. Election law prohibits such arrangements and caps donations at $5,000 per donor to any one candidate.
The Senate candidate was not identified in the indictment. Mr. D’Souza donated to only one federal candidate in 2012, giving $5,000 toWendy Long, a New York Republican who lost her challenge to Senator Kirsten E. Gillibrand, a Democrat.
“Mr. D’Souza did not act with any corrupt or criminal intent whatsoever,” his lawyer, Benjamin Brafman, said in a statement. “He and the candidate have been friends since their college days, and at most, this was an act of misguided friendship by D’Souza.”It's not a crime if you're friends, and the 5K re-payments to the strawdonors were just a coincidence.
D'Souza and Long were last in the news together in their roles as the trustees of an anti-Semitic college newspaper. If he's convicted, maybe he can join a Neo-Nazi prison gang.
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Dinesh D'Souza. What a louza.
Not to mention all the other horrific things they did as editors of that rag right out under their own names, without shoving the responsibility off onto "unnamed staffers."
David Corn has some of the details:
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/01/dinesh-dsouza-indictment-dartmouth-outed-gay-classmates
Ah, yes, Dinesh 88, the pencil-necked Nazi prison `banger....
I think Wally Cox would have less trouble fitting in.
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