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*POSSIBLE JAIL TIME FOR CAMPAIGN FINANCE SCOFFLAW:* Violating the
Federal Election Campaign Act doesn't pay, at least not for a Delaware
businessman who faces up to 16 years in the slammer after pleading guilty to
a variety of federal election and tax charges.

The Department of Justice says that N-K-S Distributors President Christopher
Tigani "directly and indirectly solicited numerous NKS employees to make
political contributions" to numerous candidates running for president, U.S.
Senate, governor of Delaware, Lieutenant governor of Delaware and other
Delaware state offices.

One politician who received money was Vice President Joe Biden, who was
running for president at the time, the *Associated Press*
reports<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D9NP0HKG0.htm>.
Biden's camp says it had no knowledge of the scheme, and several pols are
now divesting of money they received from or through Tigani, the *Wilmington
* (Del.) *News Journal*
wites<http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20110610/NEWS02/106100364>
.

Said FBI Special Agent-in-Charge Richard A. McFeely: "Individuals who seek
to circumvent federal election laws undermine the entire election process
and deny a level playing field for all candidates. The FBI takes these
offenses very seriously. This investigation is far reaching and still active
and ongoing."

During the past dozen years, Tigani himself has been a regular donor to
various politicians and political committees, including the Senate campaigns
of now-Vice President Joe Biden (D-Del.), former Sen. Hillary Clinton
(D-N.Y.), Sen. Bob Casey (D-Pa.), former President George W. Bush and the
Republican State Committee of Delaware, according to federal records.

Read the Justice Department's statement on the matter here:
justicestatement.pdf <http://www.opensecrets.org/news/justicestatement.pdf>

And to view OpenSecrets.org's records of Tigani's personal political
contributions during the past three election cycles, click on the chart
below:

[image: tigani06.10a.jpg]<http://www.opensecrets.org/news/assets_c/2011/06/tigani06.10a-5215.html>

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