John Pierre Dupont had been charged with defrauding thousands of donors between 2015 and 2019 through sham websites.
An 82-year-old career criminal from California has pleaded guilty to running phony political action committees for candidates including Bernie Sanders and Beto O’Rourke and pocketing money from donors, prosecutors said.
— Audrey Strauss, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Dupont ultimately raked in more than $250,000 which he used to finance his own lifestyle — including paying his rent and other bills and buying a Mercedes Benz, according to court papers. None of the money ever went to any campaign, and none of the candidates were aware of what Dupont was up to, prosecutors said.
In 1985, he was jailed for defrauding investors in a once highly-successful home mortgage firm he ran in Orange County that collapsed in a housing bust, according to a 1992 profile in the Los Angeles Times.
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