NEW YORK, NY - The New York Times bestselling author Dinesh D’Souza, 53, has sought probation and community service from a federal judge after pleading guilty to a campaign finance law violation. D’Souza’s lawyers said their client will present himself as a “disgraced and humiliated man” who acted out of character by having two “straw donors” donate $10,000 each to his friend Wendy Long’s unsuccessful 2012 U.S. Senate...
campaign in New York, and then reimbursing them, reported the Daily News. U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan will impose sentence at a September 23 hearing. D’Souza faces up to two years in prison.
D’Souza said the means he chose to help Long, a Republican he had known since both attended Dartmouth College, was “completely aberrant,” and has led to his credibility as a public figure to be called into question. He added there was “zero chance” he would commit the crime again. “I cannot believe how stupid I was, how careless, and how irresponsible,” D’Souza wrote. “I took a short-cut, knowing that there was a campaign limit and trying to get around the limit,” he continued. “This should not have happened, and I am ashamed and contrite that it did.” The Mumbai-born D’Souza, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1991, proposed community service that could involve teaching, instructing new immigrants in English, or working at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater San Diego.
D’Souza said the means he chose to help Long, a Republican he had known since both attended Dartmouth College, was “completely aberrant,” and has led to his credibility as a public figure to be called into question. He added there was “zero chance” he would commit the crime again. “I cannot believe how stupid I was, how careless, and how irresponsible,” D’Souza wrote. “I took a short-cut, knowing that there was a campaign limit and trying to get around the limit,” he continued. “This should not have happened, and I am ashamed and contrite that it did.” The Mumbai-born D’Souza, who became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1991, proposed community service that could involve teaching, instructing new immigrants in English, or working at the Boys and Girls Club of Greater San Diego.
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