Will There Be Consequences for a Democratic Law Firm Caught Funneling Campaign Funds?

We’ll soon see whether campaign-finance law applies equally to the Left

by David French

 

In September 2014, conservatives across the land howled in protest as a judge sentenced noted writer, speaker, and documentarian Dinesh D’Souza to eight months in a community confinement center, imposed a $30,000 fine, and mandated weekly therapy sessions after he pled guilty to a petty violation of federal campaign-finance laws. And, make no mistake, he was guilty. He’d asked friends to contribute maximum donations to Wendy Long’s doomed race for New York Senate and then reimbursed them for their donations.

 

Simply put, that’s illegal.

 

Campaign-finance limits would be meaningless if wealthy individuals could give large sums of money through webs of friends and cronies. The conservative objection was simple — D’Souza may be guilty, but the feds were seeking prison time mainly because he was a noted Obama critic and bestselling conservative author.

 

Even Alan Dershowitz — hardly a conservative — said the case smacks of “selective prosecution” and noted that the use of straw donors was so common that he’d been solicited to participate in similar schemes. In a target-rich environment, the Left had conveniently singled out one of the president’s most strident (and popular) critics.

 

Liberals wouldn’t receive the same treatment.  Or would they? ...........Read more