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GOP Operative, Previously Pardoned By Trump, Convicted of 'Funneling Russian Money' to Trump Campaign
GOP political strategist Jesse Benton was convicted Thursday of illegally working to funnel campaign contributions from a Russian businessman to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The Department of Justice released a statement on Thursday boasting of the jury conviction, saying Benton “acted as a straw donor and contributed $25,000 of the Russian foreign national’s money to the campaign, falsely identified himself as the contributor and pocketed the remaining $75,000.”
GOP political strategist Jesse Benton was convicted Thursday of illegally working to funnel campaign contributions from a Russian businessman to Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.
The Department of Justice released a statement on Thursday boasting of the jury conviction, saying Benton “acted as a straw donor and contributed $25,000 of the Russian foreign national’s money to the campaign, falsely identified himself as the contributor and pocketed the remaining $75,000.”
