FL GOP Aide Faces Prison For Taking Funds

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GOP Aide Faces Prison For Taking Funds

By ELAINE SILVESTRINI The Tampa Tribune
Published: Nov 15, 2006

TAMPA - On April 5, Randolph Maddox, campaign treasurer for Republican congressional candidate Nancy Detert, cashed a $91,000 check drawn on campaign funds.
Days later, Maddox said, he woke up in Buenos Aires, Argentina, with no knowledge of how he got there. His eyebrows had been shaved and there was $60,000 in his backpack, according to pleadings filed in U.S. District Court. He later said he didn't know where he got the money and didn't remember spending $30,000.

Maddox, 42, is to be sentenced today on a federal charge of wrongful conversion campaign funds, to which he pleaded guilty in July.

Defense attorney Mark Reinhold filed a motion Tuesday seeking a lenient sentence, partly on the grounds that Maddox returned to the United States on April 15 and returned the campaign the money he still had. His parents took out a loan to repay the rest.
Reinhold disclosed Maddox has a long history of mental illness and has been hospitalized in the past after a suicide attempt by taking an overdose of prescription medications.

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Reinhold said Maddox is properly medicated and can stay that way as long as he is not incarcerated.

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The charge to which Maddox pleaded guilty carries a maximum sentence of five years in federal prison. He is likely to receive less under the terms of his plea deal.
Detert was one of four Republicans who sought U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris' House seat for the district that includes all of Sarasota County and part of four others.

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1. Another fine member of the party of personal responsibility

[durrrty libby]

2. Shaved eyebrows? teehee.........Bizarro n/t

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3. There's a lot more of campaign so called 'shanagins' that need to

... that need to be made federal election felonies.

Dirty tricks a la Karl Rove

Voter intimidation a la RoboCalls in Va

And the beat goes on

If A Coultergeist can do the time,
so can her partners in crime