Convicted conservative filmmaker avoids prison. Gee how surprising.

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Courtesy of HuffPo:  

Conservative author and filmmaker Dinesh D'Souza was sentenced on Tuesday to spend eight months in a community confinement center during five years of probation after pleading guilty to a campaign finance law violation. 

The defendant, a frequent critic of President Barack Obama, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Richard Berman in Manhattan. He was also given a $30,000 fine and ordered to do one day of community service a week during his probation. 

D'Souza, 53, admitted in May to illegally reimbursing two 'straw donors' who donated $10,000 each to the unsuccessful 2012 U.S. Senate campaign in New York of Wendy Long, a Republican he had known since attending Dartmouth College in the early 1980s. 

"It was a crazy idea, it was a bad idea," D'Souza told Berman before being sentenced. "I regret breaking the law."

Yes he regretted breaking the law so much that he tried to blame his conviction on the fact that he was "targeted" by the Obama Justice Department.

POS.

Too bad really, I was kind of looking forward to hearing how D'Souza fared in the general population of a federal prison while surrounded by inmates who may not have taken kindly to the fact that he makes his money attacking the first black President of these United States.