“DOJ Wants 4 Years in Jail for Consultant In Super PAC Campaign Coordination Case”

Bloomberg BNA:

The Justice Department is asking for a jail sentence of nearly four years for Tyler Harber, a Virginia political consultant who pleaded guilty to illegal coordination of campaign financing by a super political action committee and a congressional candidate’s campaign committee (U.S. v. Harber, E.D. Va., Criminal No. 14-373, sentencing memo, 6/5/15).
Top DOJ officials said in a sentencing memorandum that a tough sentence for Harber would send a message that coordination between candidate campaigns and supposedly independent super PACs will not be tolerated.
The memorandum, filed June 5 in federal district court in Alexandria, Va., said Harber should be sentenced to 46 months in prison. DOJ said such a sentence would be at the “low end” of the range of appropriate punishments imposed under federal sentencing guidelines.
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