Selective enforcement of the law is a dangerous thing.
Mollie Hemingway
The Federalist
5/21/2014
Conservative author Dinesh D’Souza pleaded guilty to breaking campaign finance laws. He was accused of having urged two friends to make $10,000 contributions to a Senate candidate and then reimbursing them. This is an illegal work-around of campaign contribution limits.
He won’t be sentenced until Sept. 23 but faces 16 months in prison and a $30,000 fine.
So a guy does something wrong and pleads guilty. What’s the big deal?
Well, there’s the ridiculosity (that’s a word, right?) of such campaign finance laws and the pretty serious looming sentence for the crime. Prison…
…Now let’s take a look at one Jon Corzine. Who is he? Well, he was CEO of Goldman Sachs, spent $62 million of totally clean (I’m sure) cash buying a Senate seat, brought New Jersey to the brink of fiscal ruin in his sole term as governor, and then ended up implicated in one of the largest scandals in Wall Street history. How big? Oh, like $1.6 billion big…
The complete article is at The Federalist.
