Showing posts with label Dinesh D'Souza. Show all posts
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Friday, October 24, 2014

Standard protocol?

October 24, 2014 Community Confinement , Dinesh D'Souza 0 Comments
Judge Restricts Dinesh D'Souza's Travel

Dinesh D'Souza interviews George Obama in Kenya
for his film "2016: Obama's America"
By Jerome R. Corsi, Oct. 23, 2014

NEW YORK – A federal judge in New York City has put filmmaker and bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza under a travel restriction during the eight months in which he has been sentenced to a community confinement center in San Diego, where he must spend each night.

U.S. District Judge Richard Berman, in a hearing in New York City Oct. 15, ordered that D’Souza must not leave San Diego County while the eight months at the community center, which was part of his sentence for campaign-finance violations. He also must obtain the approval of his federal probation officer to conduct any media interviews.

The hearing was held after D’Souza’s probation officer gave him permission to travel to New York City for an interview with the Fox News Channel’s Megyn Kelly. The probation officer then asked Berman to clarify D’Souza’s restrictions under the sentence, which led to the hearing. The ruling forced D’Souza to cancel a speech scheduled for Wednesday at the University of California at Santa Barbara.

As WND reported, after pleading guilty to campaign finance violations, D’Souza was sentenced last month to eight months in a work-release center in San Diego, five years of probation and a $30,000 fine. He also must set aside one day a week during his probation to teach English to non-English speakers. He pleaded guilty in May to arranging “straw donors” to contribute $10,000 to the failed 2012 U.S. Senate campaign of Wendy Long, a college friend.

The original sentence didn’t address travel and allowed him to continue his writing and filmmaking.

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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Fighting for the soul of America

October 02, 2014 Combat Veterans For Congress , Dinesh D'Souza 0 Comments
Dinesh D'Souza's Speech To 'Combat Veterans For Congress'‏


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Friday, September 26, 2014

Dershowitz, an intellectually honest lefty

September 26, 2014 Dinesh D'Souza , Federal Election Commission 0 Comments
Experts Slam D'Souza Sentence: 'Never Should Have Been Prosecuted'

By Todd Beamon, Sept. 23, 2014, Newsmax.com

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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Tuesday, September 23, 2014

What, no firing squad?

September 23, 2014 Campaign Finance Law , Dinesh D'Souza 0 Comments
Federal Prosecutors Misled Judge in Pursuit of Prison Time For Dinesh D'Souza

By Katie Pavlich, Sep. 23, 2014, Townhall.com

According to court documents, federal prosecutors working on behalf of Attorney General Eric Holder and the Department of Justice misled U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman in the case against conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D’Souza during their pursuit of 10-to-16 months of prison time for a federal felony charge.

In a reply sentencing memo submitted to the Court on behalf of D'Souza last week, his counsel argues federal prosecutors excluded and misrepresented the facts of “similar” cases in the Government's sentencing proposal to Judge Berman, leaving out crucial facts key to fair and equal sentencing for D’Souza compared to other cases. The prosecution has a duty to present comparable cases and crimes when arguing for a prison sentence. In their presentation of “similar” cases to the Judge for consideration during his deliberation, the prosecution ignored all truly similar cases without prison time but did present cases that included prison time without a full set of facts to justify sentencing.

“The Government, in this case, has chosen to consciously omit from its submission critical facts from most of the cases they cite which make it clear that those cases are substantially distinguishable from the facts in D’Souza’s prosecution,” the memo states.

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No hard time

September 23, 2014 Campaign Finance Law , Crime 0 Comments
BREAKING: Judge Rules Dinesh D'Souza Will Not Face Prison Time

Dinesh D'Souza
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By Katie Pavlich, Sept. 23, 2014, Townhall.com

U.S. District Court Judge Richard Berman has sentenced conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza to eight months in a community confinement center and five years probation. D'Souza will not face prison time. What this essentially means:

Community confinement is a condition of probation or supervised release. It involves residence in a halfway house, restitution center, community treatment center, mental health facility, alcohol or drug rehabilitation center, or other community facility. It also includes participation in gainful employment, employment search efforts, vocational training, treatment, community service, educational programs, or similar other facility approved programs during their nonresidential hours. Basically community confinement is imposed as a condition of pre release custody and programming, before serving the last ten percent of the prison sentence. Community confinement is given for a period not exceeding six months.

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