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BUFFALO, NY – U.S. Lawyer Trini E. Ross introduced immediately that G. Steven Pigeon, 61, of Buffalo, NY, who was convicted of conspiracy to trigger a overseas donation in a state election in violation of federal legislation, was sentenced to serve 4 months in jail and one yr supervised launch by U.S. District Decide Richard J. Arcara.

Assistant U.S. Lawyer Paul E. Bonanno and Deputy Chief John Keller of the Division of Justice Public Integrity Part, who dealt with the case, acknowledged that whereas working as a political marketing consultant and lobbyist in Buffalo, Pigeon represented a overseas consumer, whose CEO was a Canadian citizen. In early 2014, regardless of figuring out that it was unlawful to make a overseas donation to a state political marketing campaign, Pigeon solicited the CEO to make a $25,000 donation to the reelection marketing campaign of a New York state elected official. Nevertheless, the marketing campaign rejected the donation as a result of the CEO was not a citizen or everlasting authorized resident of the US. Pigeon and the CEO then prompted the donation from the CEO to be made by means of one other particular person, a everlasting authorized resident of the US and an worker working for the CEO. In February 2014, a $25,000 donation was made to the elected official’s marketing campaign, with Pigeon and the CEO figuring out that the CEO would reimburse, the donation. Because of the $25,000 donation, Pigeon and the CEO had been granted entry right into a fundraising occasion for the general public official in New York Metropolis on February 26, 2014. 

The sentencing is the results of an investigation by the FBI Buffalo Area Workplace, beneath the path of Particular Agent in Cost Stephen Belongia; the New York State Lawyer Basic’s Workplace, beneath the path of Letisha James; and the New York State Police, beneath the path of Main Eugene Staniszewski.

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