{"id":185626,"date":"2014-09-23T22:10:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-24T03:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/23\/damn-no-jail-time\/"},"modified":"2014-09-23T22:10:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-24T03:10:00","slug":"damn-no-jail-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/09\/23\/damn-no-jail-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn.  No Jail Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Dinesh D&#8217;Souza <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2014\/09\/23\/us-usa-politics-dsouza-idUSKCN0HI23820140923\">got community confinement and probation<\/a>:<\/div>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D&#8217;Souza avoided prison on Tuesday when a U.S. judge sentenced him to serve eight months in a community confinement center after he pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance law.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">D&#8217;Souza, 53, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan to live in a center, which would allow him to leave during non-residential hours for employment, for the first eight months of a five-year probationary period.<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: blue;\"><br \/><\/span><span style=\"color: blue;\">Berman also ordered D&#8217;Souza to perform one day of community service a week during probation, undergo weekly therapy and pay a $30,000 fine.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is a guy whose wife <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/buster\/department-justice\/dsouza-spared-prison-time-980347\">wrote a letter to the judge that condemned him for forging her signature and being abusive<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: blue;\">During the sentencing hearing, Berman read from a blistering letter submitted to the court by D\u2019Souza\u2019s estranged wife. In the missive, Dixie D\u2019Souza alleged that her ex-spouse forged her signature on one campaign contribution form, and that he <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/dixiedsousaletter1.jpg\">had an \u201cabusive nature.\u201d<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>D\u2019Souza, who was married to the defendant for 20 years, wrote, \u201cIn one instance, it was my husband who physically abused me in April 2012 when he, using his purple belt karate skills, kicked me in the head and shoulder, knocking me to the ground and creating injuries that pain me to this day.\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesmokinggun.com\/sites\/default\/files\/assets\/dixiedsouzaletter.pdf\">Click here<\/a> to download a PDF of Dixie D\u2019Souza\u2019s five-page letter to Berman.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Seriously.&nbsp; What does a Republican have do to get thrown in jail these days?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dinesh D&#8217;Souza got community confinement and probation: Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D&#8217;Souza avoided prison on Tuesday when a U.S. judge sentenced him to serve eight months in a community confinement center after he pleaded guilty to violating campaign finance law.D&#8217;Souza, 53, was ordered by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan to live in &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1094,970,969,972],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-185626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-finance","category-corruption","category-evil","category-justice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=185626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185626\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}