Listen : Kent Sorenson Blames Theft of Mailing List On Michele Bachmann Campaign Manager

Listen : Kent Sorenson Blames Theft of Mailing List On Michele Bachmann Campaign Manager

by | Aug 27, 2024 | Staffergate | 0 comments

Former Iowa State Senator Ken Sorenson pled guilty of accepting bribes today in Federal Court…but that’s just the tip of the iceberg.

The New York Times reports:

Mr. Sorenson, 42, of Milo, Iowa, had been the state chairman for the presidential campaign of Representative Michele Bachmann, Republican of Minnesota, but then switched his support to former Representative Ron Paul of Texas just days before the state’s caucus.

In a statement filed with his plea agreement, Mr. Sorensen admitted that he agreed to switch his allegiance in exchange for $73,000 in payments. The Justice Department did not name the campaigns involved in the scheme. He has not yet been sentenced.

But that’s all the only illegal shenanigans Sorenson was involved in.

He was also involved in the theft of a valuable mailing list, a theft that involved others who will be caught up in the aftermath of Sorenon turning state’s evidence with today’s plea deal.

Listen to this exclusively obtained audio of Sorenson discussing the mailing list theft.

As Iowa’s Kent Sorenson Pleads Guilty, #Staffergate Hits Rachel Maddow. Fasten Your Seatbelts.

As Iowa’s Kent Sorenson Pleads Guilty, #Staffergate Hits Rachel Maddow. Fasten Your Seatbelts.

by | Aug 27, 2024 | Staffergate | 1 comment

Well, if the liberals cover it, it must be news now.

I covered the scandal I named #Staffergate for months. (Here’s a one hour podcast I did in December about it.) I said it would end up impacting Michele Bachmann, Ron Paul, Rand Paul, and Mitch McConnell.

Today, one shoe dropped as Ken Sorenson pled guilty. The Des Moines Register:

A former Iowa state senator has pleaded guilty in federal court to crimes related to accepting payment from a presidential campaign during Iowa’s 2012 presidential caucus campaign.

Kent Sorenson, of Milo, concealed payments he received from then-U.S. Rep. Ron Paul’s presidential campaign and then obstructed the investigation into the incident, the U.S. Department of Justice announced in a release on Wednesday.

He pleaded guilty to two counts and now is awaiting sentencing. Sorenson could face up to five years in prison and a $250,000 for the first count and 20 years in prison and another $250,000 fine for the second.

And now MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is covering it.

DEVELOPING…