Former Pennsylvania Treasurer Robert M. McCord Sentenced To 30 Months' Imprisonment For Attempted Ex

[nitpicker]

https://www.justice.gov/usao-mdpa/pr/former-pennsylvania-treasurer-robert-m-mccord-sentenced-30-months-imprisonment

Department of Justice
U.S. Attorney’s Office
Middle District of Pennsylvania

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Tuesday, August 28, 2018

Former Pennsylvania Treasurer Robert M. McCord Sentenced To 30 Months’ Imprisonment For Attempted Extortion

HARRISBURG - The United States Attorney's Office for the Middle District of Pennsylvania announced that former Pennsylvania State Treasurer Robert M. McCord, age 59, currently residing in Long Branch, New Jersey, was sentenced to 30 months’ imprisonment by U.S. District Court Judge John E. Jones, III, for two counts of attempted extortion. Judge Jones also ordered McCord to pay a $5,000 fine and to report to the Bureau of Prisons on October 29, 2018.

According to United States Attorney David J. Freed, McCord served as the Pennsylvania State Treasurer from 2008 until he resigned in February 2015. During late April and early May 2014, McCord attempted to extort campaign contributions from a law firm and a property management company while he was running for Governor by threatening economic harm to the potential donors if they failed to make sufficient campaign contributions. In particular, McCord threatened to use his position as State Treasurer to interfere with the business that the law firm and property management firm were conducting with the state if they did not make the contributions.
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[marble falls]

1. I'm guessing (R), am I right?

[Harker]

2. Nope. Sorry.

He lost out to current Gov. Wolf in the 2014 primary.

Pretty sound guess, though.