Category:Jesse Benton: Difference between revisions

{{Infobox person

| name = Jesse Benton

| image = Jesse Benton, American political consultant.jpg

| image_size = 150px

| caption = Benton at a book signing at Iowa State University in 2011

| birthname = Jesse Reeves Benton

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1977|10|4}}

| birth_place = [[Wikipedia:Philadelphia|Philadelphia]], [[Wikipedia:Pennsylvania|Pennsylvania]], U.S.

}}

Benton was indicted in September 2021 for illegally funneling money he received from a Russian national into the 2016 campaign of Donald Trump.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Graziosi |first1=Graig |title=Ex-Rand Paul aide pardoned by Trump is charged with funneling Russian money into 2016 election |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/rand-paul-trump-russian-2016-election-b2030602.html |work=The Independent |date=March 7, 2022}}</ref><ref name=wash>{{cite web |title=GOP operative found guilty of funneling Russian money to Donald Trump |date=2022-11-17 |work=The Washington Post |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230712003342/https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/17/benton-trump-russian-vasilenko-guilty/ |archive-date=2023-07-12 |url-status=live |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/11/17/benton-trump-russian-vasilenko-guilty/}}</ref> Benton was convicted on November 17, 2022 and sentenced to 18 months in prison on February 17, 2023.<ref name=wash/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Rabinowitz |first1=Hannah |title=GOP operative gets 1.5 years in prison for facilitating illegal Russian donation to Trump 2016 campaign |url=https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/17/politics/jesse-benton-sentenced-campaign-finance/index.html |publisher=CNN |date=February 17, 2023}}</ref>

==See also==

*{{Wikipedia-inline|Jesse Benton}}

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