PAC manager convicted of using funds to target candidate

[Judi Lynn]

Source: Associated Press

PAC manager convicted of using funds to target candidate
| February 12, 2015

ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A Virginia man who managed a losing congressional campaign while running a so-called Super PAC has pleaded guilty to illegally funneling money from the PAC to bolster his candidate's campaign.

Federal prosecutors said it is the first time a person has been convicted of illegally coordinating campaign contributions between political committees.

Thirty-four-year-old Tyler Harber of Alexandria was campaign manager and political consultant for Chris Perkins, who ran in 2012 as a Republican against Democratic incumbent Gerry Connolly in a northern Virginia district.

At a plea hearing Thursday in federal court, Harber admitted causing the PAC, which is not named in court records, to spend $325,000 in ads targeting Connolly.


Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/PAC-manager-convicted-of-using-funds-to-target-6078138.php

[PoliticAverse]

1. "the first time a person has been convicted of illegally coordinating campaign contributions"

Even rarer than banker convictions.

[Exultant Democracy]

2. Funny thing is that it is so easy to do all this effectivly and legally

people who break the finance laws should be looked at in the other aspect of their lives. The fact that doing it the legal way is so easy (even really crooked shit) to me means that these people are probably getting a rush from knowingly breaking the law. Either that or they really are just so stupid it is hard to figure out how they manage to breath.