Prosecutors have accused an 80-year-old California con man of running a fraudulent PAC scheme.
Geoffrey Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York. By Kayla Epstein Kayla Epstein Embedded audience editor on the National desk Email Bio Follow March 20 at 4:40 PM When unsuspecting Bernie Sanders supporters donated via a website called Sanders2016campaign.com during the last presidential election, they thought they were giving money to a candidate who inveighed against the 1 percent and vowed to take on Wall Street.
The Californian has been arrested and charged with wire fraud and identity theft, prosecutors with the Southern District of New York announced on Tuesday. Dupont is alleged to have set up multiple websites and bogus political action committees to carry out the fraud. Prosecutors say that Dupont received hundreds of thousands of dollars through his scam PACs and websites. A significant amount came through credit card payments, but the fake website for Sanders declared, in a voice mimicking the socialist politician’s denunciation of corporate wealth, that “EVERY TIME WE PROCESS YOUR CREDIT CARD DONATION, THE BIG BANKS TAKE UP TO 40% OF THE DONATIONS JUST FOR PROCESSING YOUR CREDIT CARD INFORMATION . . . THAT IS WHY WE ARE GIVING YOU THE OPTION . . .
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