A double standard - Dinesh D�Souza and John Edwards
A bit of bias on display here - from the
Washington Post:
Conservative author and pundit Dinesh D�Souza charged in campaign finance case
Conservative author Dinesh D�Souza was indicted Thursday on federal charges of violating campaign finance laws by using straw donors to funnel money to a U.S. Senate candidate.
The U.S. Attorney�s Office for the Southern District of New York announced the grand jury charges in a statement Thursday. D�Souza is expected to be arraigned Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
A bit more:
The criminal charges, filed in U.S. District Court, allege that D�Souza in 2012 illegally reimbursed associates whom he asked to make donations valued at $20,000 to an unnamed Senate campaign. At the time, primary and general election campaign contributions to federal candidates were limited to $2,500 each from any individual to any single candidate.
And the last paragraph of this article:
Straw-donor cases have been brought against prominent individuals from time to time. For example, in 2011, a prominent Los Angeles attorney, Pierce O�Donnell, pleaded guilty to misdemeanor charges of making $20,000 in donations to the presidential campaign of former Sen. John Edwards and reimbursing straw donors.
A misdemeanor as opposed to a
Grand Jury Indictment
That's a double standard in my book...
Posted by DaveH at January 24, 2014 3:39 PM