{"id":853754,"date":"2021-10-06T17:59:16","date_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:59:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=853754"},"modified":"2021-10-06T17:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-10-06T21:59:18","slug":"former-kentucky-dem-chairman-headed-to-prison-for-illegal-campaign-donations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-kentucky-dem-chairman-headed-to-prison-for-illegal-campaign-donations\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Kentucky Dem Chairman Headed to Prison for Illegal Campaign Donations"},"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\">22<\/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-kentucky-dem-chairman-headed-to-prison-for-illegal-campaign-donations%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=853754&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--><div readability=\"29.88679245283\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/democrats\/\">Democrats<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">Jerry Lundergan conspired to illegally donate $200,000 to daughter&#8217;s failed Senate campaign<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"516\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-453033962-736x516-1.jpg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-453033962-736x516.jpg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-453033962-300x210.jpg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-453033962-768x538.jpg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-453033962-1024x717.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/GettyImages-453033962-e1568318135221.jpg 726w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\t(Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/josh-christenson\/\" title=\"Posts by Josh Christenson\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Josh Christenson<\/a> \u2022 October 6, 2021 5:55 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"71.143832153691\">\n<p>The former chairman of the Kentucky Democratic Party, and father of failed Democratic Senate candidate Alison Lundergan Grimes, is headed to prison for illegal campaign donations.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry Lundergan, a caterer, business owner, and former lawmaker, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/politics\/former-kentucky-dem-party-chair-convicted-of-campaign-finance-violations\/\">was convicted<\/a> in 2019 of conspiring to illegally donate $200,000 to his daughter&#8217;s campaign from one of his businesses. In 2020, a federal judge sentenced the 73-year-old Lundergan to 21 months in prison and ordered him to pay a fine of $150,000. He had been on unsupervised release awaiting a ruling from the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. In August, the appeals court upheld his conviction.<\/p>\n<p>Lundergan served as a state representative and party chairman during his decades-long involvement in Democratic Party politics. This is the second time he has been convicted of a felony related to his political influence. In 1989, a jury found him guilty of &#8220;improperly using his influence to gain a state contract&#8221; after his catering company secured more than $100,000 of contract work at state events while he was a representative. Lundergan resigned his seat following the conviction, but an appeals court later ruled his charges a misdemeanor.<\/p>\n<p>Grimes failed to unseat Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) during her 2014 Senate campaign, losing by more than 15 points. She served as Kentucky&#8217;s secretary of state from 2012 to 2020.<\/p>\n<p>A well-connected political figure, Lundergan counted former president Bill Clinton as a close friend. Clinton wrote a letter of support to the court before Lundergan&#8217;s conviction that called the former party chairman &#8220;a good man with a big heart who has made a positive difference in countless lives, including my own.&#8221; Lundergan also served as the state chair for Hillary Clinton&#8217;s 2008 presidential campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Lundergan was ordered to report to prison on Nov. 30. His attorney has said he is also seeking an appeal at the U.S. Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democrats Jerry Lundergan conspired to illegally donate $200,000 to daughter&#8217;s failed Senate campaign  (Photo by Win McNamee\/Getty Images)  Josh Christenson \u2022 October 6, 2021 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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-853754","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\/853754","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853754\/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=853754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}