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Dinesh DSouzas Series of Unfortunate EventsDavid Sessions
Author and filmmaker Dinesh DSouza was indicted for encouraging fraudulent campaign donationsjust the latest in a spiral that has all but sunk his career in the conservative movement.
Conservative author, filmmaker and provocateur Dinesh DSouza was indicted Thursday on charges of using straw donors to make illegal contributions to a college classmates 2012 campaign.
The indictment, filed in U.S. District Court in New York, accuses DSouza of willfully and knowingly surpassing the $5,000 limit for individual campaign donations by directing others to donate to the campaign of Wendy Long, who unsuccessfully challenged New York senator Kirsten Gillibrand in 2012. According to the document, DSouza and his then-wife, Dixie, each contributed $5,000 to Longs campaign, and he reimbursed others for $20,000 he had encouraged them to donate.
DSouza worked with Long on the infamous Dartmouth Review, an edgy conservative newspaper at Dartmouth College known for launching smart young right-wingers to prominence. In 1990, the pair apologized for printing an anti-Semitic quote from Hitlers Mein Kampf in an edition of the publication distributed on Yom Kippuran antic typical of the Reviews ethos of deliberate provocation. Long went on to become an attorney at several conservative institutions, including the Claremont Institute. She made her first run for office in 2012, and lost in a landslide to Gillibrand, New Yorks incumbent Democratic senator.
According to the New York Times, Long raised about $785,000 in the race, with DSouza hosting one of her fundraisers. DSouzas lawyer denied any criminal intent in the apparent plot to reimburse donors to Longs campaign, saying it was at most an act of misguided friendship.
The indictment is just the latest in a tangle of personal and professional difficulties that swarmed around DSouza at what was arguably the height of his success: the popularity of his 2012 anti-Obama documentary 2016: Obamas America. The film, which was released in the summer of 2012 and became a slow-burn hit with conservatives in the run-up to the presidential election, earned over $33 million at the box office and was the highest-grossing documentary since 1982. But just a couple of months into the films promotion, DSouza was out of a job: he resigned his lucrative position as president of the Kings College, a small evangelical Christian school in Manhattan, over reports that he was engaged to a 29-year-old woman while still being married to his wife of 20 years.
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Paladin
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(28,264 posts)sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I really despise this shit. Just hearing him whine makes me want to drive an ice-pick into my eardrums to make it stop.
1StrongBlackMan
(31,849 posts)Apparently, this attorney does not know how the concept of "Intent" works ... it is not that his/her client to intended to break the law; it is whether his client intended to get people to contribute to the campaign; contribution that he would reimburse.
I don't want this guy/gal representing me ... ever.
Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)Fahrenheit 9-11 has grossed over 119 Million dollars. It's also bested by March of the Penguins and a documentary about Justin Bieber. If you use industry standards the list is much longer, he comes in at number 20 on IMDB because they include films others would not think of as documentary although they are.
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=documentary.htm
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?genres=documentary&sort=boxoffice_gross_us,desc
AlinPA
(15,071 posts)his criminal acts and his hypocritical marriage/engagement/family-values behavior.
Frank Cannon
(7,570 posts)He will use this "Mein Kampf" experience to sell a book/movie on the subject, which the RWers will purchase in droves.
Fearless
(18,421 posts)I had the displeasure of hearing him spout in person once. What a loathsome human being.
yellowcanine
(35,699 posts)Joseph Goebbels (1897-1945) Once described as having, "a high intellectual varnish covering the emotional world of an adolescent," Goebbels was much disliked because of his malice and ill will, and though a mesmerizing orator, he lacked charisma. Nevertheless, he was a man of tremendous enthusiasm with an endless supply of ideas, and as a master of mass psychology, he became indispensable to Adolf Hitler.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/holocaust/peopleevents/pandeAMEX98.html
Vogon_Glory
(9,118 posts)Gee, too bad!
It's schadenfreude Par-Tay time!
Yavin4
(35,441 posts)The 80s style conservatism is dead and buried.