{"id":1998298,"date":"2023-08-11T19:27:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T23:27:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-gives-former-tennessee-state-senator-21-month-sentence-over-campaign-finance-crime\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T19:27:50","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T23:27:50","slug":"judge-gives-former-tennessee-state-senator-21-month-sentence-over-campaign-finance-crime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-gives-former-tennessee-state-senator-21-month-sentence-over-campaign-finance-crime\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Tennessee state senator sentenced to 21 months for campaign finance crime by judge."},"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\">28<\/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%2Fjudge-gives-former-tennessee-state-senator-21-month-sentence-over-campaign-finance-crime%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=1998298&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--><h2>Former Tennessee State Senator Sentenced to Prison for Violating Campaign Finance Laws<\/h2>\n<p>A\u2063 former Tennessee state senator,\u2062 Brian \u2063Kelsey, has been given a 21-month prison sentence for\u200b his involvement in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fec-drops-its-inquiry-into-trumps-payments-to-stormy-daniels\/\" title=\"FEC Drops Its Inquiry Into Trump\u2019s Payments To Stormy Daniels\">violating campaign finance laws<\/a>. Kelsey,\u200d 45, pleaded \u200dguilty to concealing the transfer of $91,000 from his\u2063 state Senate \u2063campaign\u2064 and $25,000 from a nonprofit group into\u2062 a national political organization. This organization then used the funds to finance advertisements for Kelsey&#8217;s \u200bunsuccessful bid for the U.S. House.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey \u200cinitially pleaded not guilty, but later changed his plea after his co-defendant, Joshua \u2064Smith, pleaded guilty last year. In \u200ccourt, Kelsey expressed\u200c remorse for his \u2063actions, acknowledging \u200cthat he knowingly broke\u2062 the \u200claw \u200ddespite the risks involved. He attempted to change his plea back to not guilty\u200d in March,\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-gives-former-tennessee-state-senator-21-month-sentence-over-campaign-finance-crime\/\" title=\"Former Tennessee state senator sentenced to 21 months for campaign finance crime by judge.\">citing personal matters<\/a> \u200csuch as the death of his father and the responsibility of raising his twin sons. However, Judge Waverly Crenshaw \u200bof the U.S. District Court in Nashville\u2063 denied his request \u200bin May, emphasizing the need for a sentence that sends a\u200d strong message.<\/p>\n<p>Kelsey had served\u2064 as a\u2062 state senator since 2009, including his unsuccessful congressional bid in 2016. Prior\u200c to that, he was elected to the General Assembly\u200b in 2004. Despite the sentencing, Kelsey will not have to begin his prison term until October.<\/p>\n<h3>Social Security Update: Direct Payment Worth Up to $4,555<\/h3>\n<p>In other news, \u200bmillions of individuals are set to\u2063 receive a direct payment worth up to \u200b$4,555 through the Social Security program. This payment is expected to be distributed\u200c within \u200dthe next five days, providing much<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/stimulus-check-update-direct-payment-worth-500-to-be-sent-to-minneapolis-residents-today\/\" title=\"Minneapolis residents to receive 0 direct payment today as stimulus check update.\">-needed financial support<\/a> \u200dto those eligible.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on this topic, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\">click \u200chere<\/a> to read the full article from The Washington \u2064Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Tennessee state senator, Brian Kelsey, 45, received a 21-month prison term for breaking campaign finance laws. He admitted to hiding $91,000 from his state Senate campaign and $25,000 from a nonprofit group, which were transferred to a national political organization that financed ads for his unsuccessful election campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1998299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1998298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998298","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1998298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1998298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1998299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1998298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1998298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1998298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}