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Re: Court Tosses Former Rep. Fortenberry's Conviction for Lying to Feds
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FU Obama
Dec 29, 2023, 3:25:03 PM12/29/23
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On 28 Dec 2023, FUTURA <el...@protonmail.com> posted some
news:umkd0n$f7d9$1...@dont-email.me:
> Another false conviction Obama can shove up his ass.
An appeals court on Tuesday tossed former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s 2022
conviction for lying to federal investigators about illegal campaign
donations, determining the Nebraska Republican should never have been put
on trial in Los Angeles.
“The Constitution plainly requires that a criminal defendant be tried in
the place where the criminal conduct occurred,” reads the opinion by Judge
James Donato, who ordered a new trial for the former congressman.
“Consequently, we reverse Fortenberry’s conviction without prejudice to
retrial in a proper venue.”
Fortenberry was accused of lying to federal agents in two separate
interviews in 2019—one at his home in Lincoln, Nebraska, and another at
his lawyer’s office in Washington, D.C. But he was ultimately tried in Los
Angeles, where the illegal donation scheme allegedly took place.
Prosecutors said Fortenberry lied to the feds when he claimed in the
interviews that he didn’t know that a Nigerian billionaire had illegally
donated $30,200 to his campaign during a Los Angeles fundraiser using
three straw donors.
He was ultimately convicted in March 2022 on one count of scheming to
falsify and conceal material facts and two counts of making false
statements. Fortenberry, who’s maintained he was simply “confused” during
the FBI interviews, was sentenced to two years probation and resigned soon
after.
In his resignation letter, Fortenberry cited the poem, “Do It Anyway,”
which includes the line: “What you spend years building, someone could
destroy overnight. Build anyway.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/court-tosses-former-rep-jeff-fortenberrys-
conviction-for-lying-to-feds
news:umkd0n$f7d9$1...@dont-email.me:
> Another false conviction Obama can shove up his ass.
An appeals court on Tuesday tossed former Rep. Jeff Fortenberry’s 2022
conviction for lying to federal investigators about illegal campaign
donations, determining the Nebraska Republican should never have been put
on trial in Los Angeles.
“The Constitution plainly requires that a criminal defendant be tried in
the place where the criminal conduct occurred,” reads the opinion by Judge
James Donato, who ordered a new trial for the former congressman.
“Consequently, we reverse Fortenberry’s conviction without prejudice to
retrial in a proper venue.”
Fortenberry was accused of lying to federal agents in two separate
interviews in 2019—one at his home in Lincoln, Nebraska, and another at
his lawyer’s office in Washington, D.C. But he was ultimately tried in Los
Angeles, where the illegal donation scheme allegedly took place.
Prosecutors said Fortenberry lied to the feds when he claimed in the
interviews that he didn’t know that a Nigerian billionaire had illegally
donated $30,200 to his campaign during a Los Angeles fundraiser using
three straw donors.
He was ultimately convicted in March 2022 on one count of scheming to
falsify and conceal material facts and two counts of making false
statements. Fortenberry, who’s maintained he was simply “confused” during
the FBI interviews, was sentenced to two years probation and resigned soon
after.
In his resignation letter, Fortenberry cited the poem, “Do It Anyway,”
which includes the line: “What you spend years building, someone could
destroy overnight. Build anyway.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/court-tosses-former-rep-jeff-fortenberrys-
conviction-for-lying-to-feds
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