Ex-Lawmaker Pleads Guilty In GOP Caucuses Case (2012)

[Statistikhengst]

Ouch.

Kent Sorenson (R), former lawmaker from Iowa
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Ex-Lawmaker Pleads Guilty In GOP Caucuses Case

A former Iowa lawmaker has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from his switch of support from one Republican candidate for president to another before the 2012 caucuses, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Former state Sen. Kent Sorenson received thousands of dollars in "under the table payments" before switching loyalties from U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, whose state campaign he headed in Iowa, to then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, and then lying to federal investigators about the money, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Prosecutors refused to say which campaign paid him...

..Six days before the Iowa caucuses, Sorenson announced his support for Paul.

In the plea agreement, Sorenson admitted receiving and lying about monthly payments of roughly $8,000 from October to December 2011, when he was still named Bachmann's state chairman.

He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and causing a campaign to falsely report expenditures. Sorenson could face up to 20 years in prison for obstruction of justice, and as many as five years on the second charge...

...Sorenson, 42, resigned from the Iowa Senate a year ago, less than three years after his election. However, he has said his decision was "absolutely not" an admission of wrongdoing.

His resignation came just hours after Mark Weinhardt, a special prosecutor asked to investigate whether Sorenson had broken Iowa Senate rules, released a report saying it was "manifestly clear" Sorenson negotiated payments in 2011 in exchange for his work as Bachmann's Iowa campaign chair.

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This casts a bad light on the Paul campaign, to be sure.

 

[Kevin_Kennedy]

Ouch.

Kent Sorenson (R), former lawmaker from Iowa
​

Ex-Lawmaker Pleads Guilty In GOP Caucuses Case

A former Iowa lawmaker has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from his switch of support from one Republican candidate for president to another before the 2012 caucuses, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Former state Sen. Kent Sorenson received thousands of dollars in "under the table payments" before switching loyalties from U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, whose state campaign he headed in Iowa, to then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, and then lying to federal investigators about the money, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Prosecutors refused to say which campaign paid him...

..Six days before the Iowa caucuses, Sorenson announced his support for Paul.

In the plea agreement, Sorenson admitted receiving and lying about monthly payments of roughly $8,000 from October to December 2011, when he was still named Bachmann's state chairman.

He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and causing a campaign to falsely report expenditures. Sorenson could face up to 20 years in prison for obstruction of justice, and as many as five years on the second charge...

...Sorenson, 42, resigned from the Iowa Senate a year ago, less than three years after his election. However, he has said his decision was "absolutely not" an admission of wrongdoing.

His resignation came just hours after Mark Weinhardt, a special prosecutor asked to investigate whether Sorenson had broken Iowa Senate rules, released a report saying it was "manifestly clear" Sorenson negotiated payments in 2011 in exchange for his work as Bachmann's Iowa campaign chair.

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This casts a bad light on the Paul campaign, to be sure.

The Paul campaign was run by inept political tools like Jesse Benton, and it's a shame that Ron Paul allowed them anywhere near his campaign.

 

[The Rabbi]

How a candidate runs his staff and campaign is a good indication of how he will govern. Thus I wasn't sorry to see Herman Cain drop out after his staff bungled an incipient scandal. Similarly here Ron Paul proved why he will never be president. And probably neither will his son.

 

[Peach]

Ouch.

Kent Sorenson (R), former lawmaker from Iowa
​

Ex-Lawmaker Pleads Guilty In GOP Caucuses Case

A former Iowa lawmaker has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from his switch of support from one Republican candidate for president to another before the 2012 caucuses, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Former state Sen. Kent Sorenson received thousands of dollars in "under the table payments" before switching loyalties from U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, whose state campaign he headed in Iowa, to then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, and then lying to federal investigators about the money, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Prosecutors refused to say which campaign paid him...

..Six days before the Iowa caucuses, Sorenson announced his support for Paul.

In the plea agreement, Sorenson admitted receiving and lying about monthly payments of roughly $8,000 from October to December 2011, when he was still named Bachmann's state chairman.

He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and causing a campaign to falsely report expenditures. Sorenson could face up to 20 years in prison for obstruction of justice, and as many as five years on the second charge...

...Sorenson, 42, resigned from the Iowa Senate a year ago, less than three years after his election. However, he has said his decision was "absolutely not" an admission of wrongdoing.

His resignation came just hours after Mark Weinhardt, a special prosecutor asked to investigate whether Sorenson had broken Iowa Senate rules, released a report saying it was "manifestly clear" Sorenson negotiated payments in 2011 in exchange for his work as Bachmann's Iowa campaign chair.

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This casts a bad light on the Paul campaign, to be sure.

No link to Paul, I am no Paul supporter; still, a candidate cannot watch every worker 24 hours a day.

 

[whitehall]

Ouch.

Kent Sorenson (R), former lawmaker from Iowa
​

Ex-Lawmaker Pleads Guilty In GOP Caucuses Case

A former Iowa lawmaker has pleaded guilty to federal charges stemming from his switch of support from one Republican candidate for president to another before the 2012 caucuses, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.

Former state Sen. Kent Sorenson received thousands of dollars in "under the table payments" before switching loyalties from U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann, whose state campaign he headed in Iowa, to then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, and then lying to federal investigators about the money, according to the U.S. Department of Justice. Prosecutors refused to say which campaign paid him...

..Six days before the Iowa caucuses, Sorenson announced his support for Paul.

In the plea agreement, Sorenson admitted receiving and lying about monthly payments of roughly $8,000 from October to December 2011, when he was still named Bachmann's state chairman.

He pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and causing a campaign to falsely report expenditures. Sorenson could face up to 20 years in prison for obstruction of justice, and as many as five years on the second charge...

...Sorenson, 42, resigned from the Iowa Senate a year ago, less than three years after his election. However, he has said his decision was "absolutely not" an admission of wrongdoing.

His resignation came just hours after Mark Weinhardt, a special prosecutor asked to investigate whether Sorenson had broken Iowa Senate rules, released a report saying it was "manifestly clear" Sorenson negotiated payments in 2011 in exchange for his work as Bachmann's Iowa campaign chair.

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This casts a bad light on the Paul campaign, to be sure.

 

[whitehall]

A "special prosecutor" for a technical violation of Iowa voting laws while the freaking head of the IRS admitted that she destroyed evidence that would have incriminated her in a federal scandal and Holder's "justice dept" declines to prosecute? Double standard?

 

[Statistikhengst]

Oy, Gewalt!

"But mommy, look, that man can't say anthing about anyone until that mean IRS lady goes away!!! Mommy!!!"

 

[Statistikhengst]

How a candidate runs his staff and campaign is a good indication of how he will govern. Thus I wasn't sorry to see Herman Cain drop out after his staff bungled an incipient scandal. Similarly here Ron Paul proved why he will never be president. And probably neither will his son.

Good posting. Not so sure about Rand - he could make a serious run in 2016.