Tuesday, May 20, 2014

D'Souza, '2016' Filmmaker, Pleads Guilty In Campaign-Finance Case

by JASmius

Rather like pleading guilty to jaywalking when you were filmed crossing the street in the middle of the block instead of at the crosswalk.  Not a blockbuster crime, but it's pretty clear you did it.

Regrettably, there's no way to prosecute the Obama Regime for political persecution and repression:

A conservative scholar behind a high-grossing film condemning President Barack Obama pleaded guilty Tuesday to making illegal campaign contributions to a U.S. Senate candidate in New York.

Dinesh D'Souza, 53, of San Diego, entered the plea in federal court in Manhattan on the day his trial was to begin, admitting he had two close associates each contribute $10,000 to Wendy Long's campaign with the understanding that he would reimburse them.

"I did reimburse them," D'Souza told U.S. District Judge Richard M. Berman. "I knew that causing a campaign contribution to be made in the name of another was wrong and something the law forbids. I deeply regret my conduct."

I'm sorry to have to tell you this, Dinesh, but conservatives don't receive the broad leeway that Obamunists do.  All Barack Obama does is fundraise; the Left is awash in what they denounce as "dirty" money when it's raised by anybody else.  Libs can evade their taxes, engage in wholesale bribery and money laundering (e.g. Harry (G)reid and his granddaughter's "jewelry business") and sail above it all, untouched, ignored, and sure as hell not prosecuted to the very last crossed "t" and dotted "i" of the law.  It's the same mistake the Nixon White House made in Watergate: they thought that they could play by the same hardball rules the Democrats do, and they paid for it.  Just as Mr. D'Souza is now.

And that punishment is a full court press:

In court, Cohen identified the donors as Tyler Vawser, who worked for D'Souza, and Denise Joseph.

In court papers, the government said D'Souza was living with Joseph and having an extramarital affair with her, although at times she did work for him.
In October 2012, D'Souza resigned as president of The King's College after an evangelical magazine reported that he brought Joseph to a conference in South Carolina where he spoke. D'Souza said at the time that he and his wife had been separated since 2010.

See?  Not only is D'Souza financially "corrupt," but we're to believe that he's morally corrupt as well, in addition, naturally, to being a "hypocrite," even though lefties otherwise defend the sub-sewer depths of sexual perversion in every other circumstance, much less a man and a woman engaging in adultery.  Seems pretty clear that the White House is out to completely eradicate D'Souza's reputation so as to eliminate him as a credible dissident and make an example of him to anybody else who would dare to publicly stand against the Regime.

Which makes Team D'Souza's quaint hope of leniency almost tragic:

His attorney, Benjamin Brafman, said in a statement immediately after the plea that he was hopeful that the judge "will recognize Mr. D'Souza to be a fundamentally honorable man who should not be imprisoned for what was an isolated instance of wrongdoing in an otherwise productive life."

Fat chance.  If Richard M. Berman - a Clinton appointee, BTW - had had any inclination to recognize this case for the political hit it really is, he wouldn't have denied D'Souza's claim that he is being "selectively" prosecuted.

Exit quote from Wendy Long:

"I am heartbroken about this. Dinesh has always been a generous man and a loyal friend who has helped many people. There was never a time when he was trying to do anything but help me personally, support my U.S. Senate campaign, and advance the ideals of freedom that we share. The statute that the government has used to target him is unconstitutional.

"When our government criminalizes the very free speech that the First Amendment was written to protect, sends people to prison for simply exercising their constitutional rights, and when government power is wielded like weapon against political enemies, we are all in trouble. There is no corruption here, and this entire episode is a shameful government overreach and a violation of the U.S. Constitution."

The punchline?  Long is going to be a prosecution witness against her "loyal friend".

At least Dinesh has some quality reading material to take with him into the gulag, assuming O's secret police don't confiscate it as heretical contraband.

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