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Experts Slam D'Souza Sentence: 'Never Should Have Been Prosecuted'
Legal experts and former federal regulatory officials on Tuesday slammed the sentence of probation with eight months of confinement imposed on conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza for federal campaign-finance violations."He never should have been prosecuted for this at all," Harvard Law School professor Alan Dershowitz told Newsmax. "This was a small, well-motivated mistake.
"Just probation would have been the appropriate sentence in this case," he added. "No confinement anywhere."
David Mason, a former commissioner of the Federal Election Commission, laughed when asked about D'Souza's confinement.
"It's not going to do anybody any good, I guess that's my first thought," he told Newsmax. "My second thought is that the judge certainly exercised good sense in rejecting the prosecution's call to put him in jail for a one-time thing like this — which was bad judgment, but frankly didn't hurt anybody."
U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan sentenced D'Souza, 53, to eight months in a community confinement center during five years of probation after the latter pleaded guilty to violating campaign-finance laws.
D'Souza, whose top-grossing 2012 documentary blasted President Barack Obama, was also fined $30,000 and ordered to teach English to non-English-speaking people eight hours a week while on probation.
Berman also imposed therapeutic counseling on D'Souza, in which he is to participate for five years.
D'Souza's movie, "2016: Obama's America," remains a top-grossing documentary, with a take of more than $33.4 million. He released "America: Imagine the World Without Her," in July, which has so far grossed over $14.4 million.
In May, D'Souza pleaded guilty to illegally reimbursing two "straw donors" who donated $10,000 each to the unsuccessful 2012 U.S. Senate campaign in New York of Wendy Long, a first-time Republican candidate whom he had known since attending Dartmouth College in the early 1980s.
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