Illegal Campaign Donor to Torricelli Sentenced
NEW JERSEY
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The man at the center of the criminal inquiry into the 1996 campaign of Democratic Sen. Robert Torricelli was sentenced in Newark to 18 months in federal prison for illegal donations.
Businessman David Chang was also fined $20,000 and barred from political fund-raising, one day after filing court papers in which he claimed the freshman senator had threatened his life and urged him to lie to investigators.
The sentencing was the last major event in the three-year investigation into Torricelli’s finances.
Torricelli has denied having any knowledge about illegal donations.
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