{"id":1556125,"date":"2022-07-15T09:34:20","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:34:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556125"},"modified":"2022-07-15T09:34:21","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T13:34:21","slug":"former-louisiana-state-senator-charged-with-wire-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-louisiana-state-senator-charged-with-wire-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Louisiana State Senator Charged With Wire Fraud"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-louisiana-state-senator-charged-with-wire-fraud%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1556125&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-louisiana\">Louisiana<\/a> state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, a Democrat, was charged with one count of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wire-fraud\">wire fraud<\/a> by federal prosecutors on July 14 for her alleged role in a scheme involving using campaign funds to fund her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-gambling\">gambling<\/a> addiction.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson served as\u00a0Louisiana state Senator for the 5th District from 2010 until 2022 and as the Chair of State Political Party A between 2012 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/usao-edla\/pr\/former-louisiana-state-senator-and-chair-state-political-party-charged-wire-fraud-role\">prosecutors,<\/a>\u00a0Peterson formed and maintained the \u201cKaren Carter Peterson Campaign Fund\u201d (KCPCF) to\u00a0solicit and raise campaign funds from individual and corporate donors under the pretext that those funds would be used to help in her\u00a0reelection for state senator.<\/p>\n<p>However, prosecutors said that Peterson instead diverted, and caused her friends and associates to divert, campaign funds from the KCPCF to the lawmaker\u2019s own personal use.<\/p>\n<p>These activities took place over nearly seven years, according to prosecutors, and the scheme saw\u00a0Peterson write out checks on the\u00a0KCPCF account to her friends and associates before directing them to cash the checks and return most or all of the money back to her, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>Peterson then used the money for\u00a0personal expenses unrelated to her campaign, including to pay\u00a0gambling-related expenses, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n<p>She is also accused of filing false or misleading campaign finance reports that mischaracterized expenses as legitimate campaign-related purchases when they were instead unrelated to the campaign and for her personal use.<\/p>\n<p>The former\u00a0Louisiana state Senator told Louisiana television station <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/article\/news\/local\/orleans\/former-state-senator-karen-carter-peterson-expected-plead-guilty-to-wire-fraud-aiding-and-abetting\/289-b94599f6-e764-4329-815d-cb288956d1d0\">WWL-TV<\/a> in March that she had a gambling addiction.<\/p>\n<p> \u2018I\u2019ve Been Suffering\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been suffering with this disease for over 25 years and there have been peaks and valleys in the recovery phase,\u201d Peterson said. \u201cThere is a lot of guilt and shame and embarrassment associated with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Peterson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wbrz.com\/news\/long-time-state-sen-karen-carter-peterson-steps-down-cites-gambling-addiction-and-depression\/\">resigned<\/a> from the Louisiana Legislature in early April, citing her battles with depression and gambling addiction as reasons for the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former\u00a0Louisiana state Sen. Karen Carter Peterson, a Democrat, was charged with one count of wire fraud by federal prosecutors on July 14 for her alleged role in a scheme involving using campaign funds to fund her gambling addiction. Peterson served as\u00a0Louisiana state Senator for the 5th District from 2010 until 2022 and as the Chair [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1556125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1556125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1556125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1556125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1556125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1556125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}