Dirty 'payback' by our tin-pot dictator - Conservative author and pundit Dinesh D’Souza charged in campaign finance case

Obama's own 'night of the long knives'. He just spreads out his petty, false vindictiveness over a longer period of time. m/r

Conservative author and pundit Dinesh D’Souza charged in campaign finance case - The Washington Post

By Tom Hamburger and Alice Crites, Published: January 23, 2014

According to the indictment, D’Souza’s straw donor scheme caused the campaign committee to falsely report to the FEC the sources of its contributions.

D’Souza was charged Thursday with one count of making illegal campaign contributions, which carries a maximum sentence of two years in prison. He also is charged with one count of causing false statements to be made to the FEC, which carries a maximum of five years in prison.

Straw-donor cases have been brought against prominnent individuals from time to time. For example, in 2011, a prominent Los Angeles attorney, Pierce O’Donnell, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor chargest of making $20,000 in donations to the presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards and reimbursing straw donors.