Political consultant gets 18 months for campaign schemes

Posted on AllSides May 4th, 2019
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A longtime Philadelphia political consultant was sentenced Friday to a year and a half in federal prison over campaign finance violations involving two Democratic congressional campaigns.

Kenneth Smukler, a top consultant who got dozens of Democrats elected in a 30-year career, told the judge he regretted that he consistently “gamed” the Federal Election Commission.

“I have shown a callous disregard for the (FEC), a federal agency that is underfunded and totally unequipped” to monitor campaign funds, said Smukler, 58, a lawyer. “I had become someone willing to scam the system...

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