Breaking: Dinesh D'Souza Indicted for Violating U.S. Election Law

[Hissyspit]

Source: Reuters

Dinesh D'Souza indicted for violating U.S. election law

Thu Jan 23, 2014 6:03pm EST

By Jonathan Stempel

NEW YORK, Jan 23 (Reuters) - Dinesh D'Souza, a conservative commentator and best-selling author, has been indicted by a federal grand jury for arranging excessive campaign contributions to a candidate for the U.S. Senate.

According to an indictment made public on Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, D'Souza around August 2012 reimbursed people who he had directed to contribute $20,000 to the candidate's campaign. The candidate was not named in the indictment.

Attempts to reach D'Souza and a lawyer representing him were unsuccessful.

D'Souza was charged in the indictment with one count of making illegal contributions in the names of others, and one count of causing false statements to be made.


Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSL2N0KX1S220140123

[shenmue]

1. He's going to the Stripes Motel! :)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/01/23/usa-politics-dsouza-idUSL2N0KX1S220140123

Whenever bad things happen to Republicans, I get ice cream. I need to get ice cream.

[Paladin]

2. The little worm. I hope they nail him for this. (nt)

[Shrike47]

3. Probably nothing much will come of this, sadly enough.

[Deep13]

4. love it.nt

[PennsylvaniaMatt]

5. He is going to cry that he was targeted for his political views

...and it will make it even more popular among his base.

I can't stand this guy!

[mikeysnot]

65. The wrong wing was already out in front of this saying this is Oboma

abusing his power by sending the justice dept after him because of his books that are critical of his presidency.

A caller on Thom Hartmann was pushing this pathetic meme Thursday...

[longship]

6. Wonderful!!! This guy's a douchebag.

R&K

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

34. I've been watching the career of this dick for twenty years...

I seriously hate the guy. I'm thrilled to see that he's finally going to get what's coming to him. My only regret is that his crimes don't warrant denaturalization and deportation.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

49. The ones we know about so far. Who knows what else may come to light.

I'd love to see that sleazy mofo kicked out of the country.

[Jeff In Milwaukee]

50. Good point (nt)

[The Wizard]

7. He should be sentenced to

intimate relations with Ann Coulter for life.

[AAO]

17. That's the ugliest thing I've ever read. VILE FILTH!!!!!!

[Ikonoklast]

28. Definitely Cruel and Unusual punishment.

He'd probably choose the chair.

[wilt the stilt]

37. coulter causes shrinkage n/t

[davidpdx]

58. In a small cell 4 times a day

and may Fox News be sentenced to covering the story everyday until they die.

[rocktivity]

8. Is it wrong that I am smiling?

But he'll probably wiggle out of it, as Ann Coulter did.


rocktivity

[deurbano]

9. If it's wrong, I don't want to be right.

[AtheistCrusader]

10. Oh my goodness I am going to fucking CLEAN COSTCO OUT of popcorn on the way home tonight

Oh my oh yes please

[Jack from Charlotte]

54. Popcorn.............?

[AtheistCrusader]

55. Noooooooo I missed some!

I will need ALL OF IT

[marmar]

11. Happy dance ..........

I despise that rancid POS D'Souza

[blackspade]

12. Ahhhh, karma

[Nanjing to Seoul]

13. Enjoy prison, asshole

[BeyondGeography]

14. I love a parade

[BumRushDaShow]

15. Now all they have to do is

find something on Snotnunu and then they can shove both of them back under the rocks from which they crawled.

[AAO]

16. The schadenfreude is strong, young grassahoppa..

[Cha]

18. We know it's not "wrong to smile".

[AAO]

19. As long as you don't split a gut and roll on the floor

you'll be alright.

[Cha]

20. Whaaat?!

[muriel_volestrangler]

21. K&R (nt)

[Kingofalldems]

22. Fox news will begin a crusade starting tomorrow

blaming liberals and such. Steve Doocy will make faces when speaking of the Grand Jury.

[Demo_Chris]

23. Hitchens debated him several times. nt

[hog]

24. Do as I say, not as I do.

[calimary]

30. Welcome to DU, hog!

Glad you're here! How I LOVE LOVE LOVE it when one of these bad guys steps in it!

I always enjoy these things. He's gonna go whining and sniveling to his wrong-wing base and there'll undoubtedly be some sort of shakedown-of-the-idiots for his legal defense fund. Which can be a very good thing! It'll be that much less that many in their base will have available to contribute to other teabagger campaigns. I like seeing those bills and "desperate" appeals for money start to pile up! Watch 'em get pulled HARD, in too many directions! And then add some more!!!!

[rustbeltvoice]

25. well,

I have nothing positive to say about Dinesh D'Souza. Still, there are so many bigger creeps that have not been investigated and prosecuted. A few of the reaganistas were carted off, and then rehabilitated with the busheviks. But the busheviks are still free, and then there is all the other lying corrupt apparatchiks in the media that conspired with them. D'Souza may be dishonorable, and may be caught, but the legion is quite strong and staffed; and i only see the Reaper to eventually harvest them. And i am waiting most anxiously to hear the sizzle from Cheney when he meets his reward.

[immoderate]

26. If you want to pull shit like that, you better be white.

--imm

[Myrina]

27. Only 1 count of 'false statements'?

Jeeez. LOL.

[TxDemChem]

29. I can't stand his ass.

Fake conservative

[No Vested Interest]

31. Any guesses who the "Senate candidate" was?

I don't know.

[DeSwiss]

44. ....

D'Souza campaigned in 2012 on behalf of Wendy Long, a lawyer and Republican who sought to unseat Democratic incumbent Kirsten Gillibrand as New York's junior senator. Long graduated from Dartmouth College in 1982, a year before D'Souza. link

[Cal Carpenter]

32. I LOL'd

Asshole.

LOL.

[hrmjustin]

33. OMG! There is a headline I did not expect to see.

[IDemo]

35. Political retribution - "both sides do it!!11!!"

Or so we'll be told by repub commentators and commenters.

[BadGimp]

36. Schnadenfrued

[madfloridian]

38. Thanks, hissyspit. Good news.

[Douglas Carpenter]

39. now that is somebody who I REALLY personally don't like. Most right-wing commentators I would like

to believe - might be people who I could chat with in friendly at least small talk kind of way if they were just a neighbor or someone who I met socially. Dinesh D'Souza hits me as someone who is simply insufferably smug and utterly dishonest and fundamentally malevolent.

[Enthusiast]

48. Dinesh D'Souza is repulsive.

Just my impression.

[fujiyama]

63. Yes, repulsive is the word I would use to describe him

What a smug, pompous and insufferably ANNOYING ass hole.

And how dumb is he to have basically embezzled this much money into a sure-to-lose campaign? Did he think he'd get in Long's pants by getting her money?!

[Enthusiast]

64. In the pants might well have been the objective.

[ReRe]

40. Yessssssssss!

The karma just keeps rolling down. I'm going to stop and have a drink in celebration! to match my smile!

[Shampoobra]

41. "The Enemy At Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11"

We're sorry we caused 9/11, Dinesh. Now go to jail.

http://www.amazon.com/The-Enemy-At-Home-Responsibility/dp/0385510128/ref=tmm_hrd_title_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1390532279&sr=1-1

[sakabatou]

56. Do not collect $200.

[AverageJoe90]

57. And do not pass go. nt

[progressoid]

42. Awww...

[Hawaii Hiker]

43. Celebratory woo-woo's are in order

[Comrade Grumpy]

45. Sweet. n/t

[alcibiades_mystery]

46. Like most things D'Souza, this appears to be a bone-dumb scheme

D'Souza is actually quite stupid; he's not a smart person. That he is taken for a right wing intellectual is so very embarrassing for the conservatives who lift the cretin up. He's not a thinker. I saw him speak to the YAF at PSA several years back. His arguments were asinine. Even some of the conservative students were looking at each other like, "We paid for this guy to come and say *that*?" It's not surprising, in that sense, that he eventually gets pinched for some hare-brained scheme to add - what - a couple ten thousands to some shithead's coffers? Who would violate federal law for those kinds of "rewards?" I'll tell ya who: a moron. D'Souza is a fucking idiot.

[Hissyspit]

47. Yup.

[TlalocW]

66. I've seen him on both The Daily Show and Colbert Report

Neither Jon nor Stephen had to expend too much energy making him look stupid.

TlalocW

[TheOther95Percent]

51. Someone must have dropped a dime on him.

It was either his former wife or one of the people he reimbursed. Either way works for me.


http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/01/24/dinesh-d-souza-s-series-of-unfortunate-events.html.

[MissMillie]

52. See... this is how they prove "Election Fraud"

they perpetrate it.

[Tom Ripley]

53. D'Oh!

[samsingh]

59. he's slime. i hope he goes to prison. what a scum dipshit

[nxylas]

60. Raising excessive campaign contributions is a crime?

I thought the whole point of Corporations United was to remove all restrictions on how much "speech" a candidate could raise?

[GeoWilliam750]

61. It is only an indictment

That means a plea and/or a trial, and possibly a couple of appeals.

Long way from a conviction and serious jail time.

[fujiyama]

62. Why would someone risk so much

for a candidate with a near 0% chance of winning? Gillibrand won almost 72% of the vote!

D'Souza is such an annoying freak. It's nice to see him busted. There is something really fishy going on hear though. I'm interested in hearing the details as they emerge.