MD Nurul Hasan (Holding Binder), former Vice President of the Council in Millbourne, Pennsylvania, leaves the Federal Court in Philadelphia on Wednesday after he was sentenced to 36 months in prison for his role in a conspiracy aimed at stealing the mayor’s race in district 2021. (Carter Walker/Vaybeat)
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The federal judge sentenced two former local officials from Delaware to more severe sentences than prosecutors, including prison, for roles in roles Try to steal the election of the mayor 2021.
“According to the Court, there are very few crimes in our Federal Code, which are more serious than what you have committed,” judge Harvey Bartle III told the defendant MD Nurula Hasan, former vice president of the council and candidate for the mayor in Borough, who pleaded guilty in April, under the recipient of the election. “What you did, undermines our democratic process.”
The judge sentenced Hasan to 36 months in prison with the year of supervised release. Another accused, a former member of the Council, MD Rafikul Islam, was sentenced to a year and day in prison, as well as a year of supervised dismissal and $ 1,700 fine. The judge admonished prosecutors for the recommendation of a lighter penalty for Islam.
The third defendant, a member of the MD Munsur Ali Council, will be convicted next week. Ali is still in the council, despite the call to give way.
Federal investigators accused men in February for many fraudulent registration of voters and related crimes in the unsuccessful plan of the mayor’s election for Hasan, who conducted a writing campaign after the loss of the democratic basic member of the Council Mahabubul Tayub.
Hasan, Ali and Islam were conspiracy to obtain personal data from residents from outside Millbourne and register them to vote in Millbourne, in accordance with the federal indictment, which took place over three years after the election. Hasan and Ali then asked to vote on behalf of these voters and threw them on Hasan, accusing the accusation. The indictment finally registered almost three dozen people.
Tayub won the general election anyway.
Three men He pleaded guilty In April to all counts. Hasan is also in the face of expecting accusations in the state court.
After listening to the sentence and leaving the Islam court room, he almost fainted, but he was caught by a bailiff and a friend. Outside the court, Islam said that he helps a “friend” when he let Hasan utilize his E -Mail address in the program and had nothing else to say to voters in Millbourne.
During the interrogation of Hasan, several family members and friends took part in his character, but the assistant of the US prosecutor Mark Dubnoff, who raced the case, said it was because Hasan was able to gain the trust of others that he was able to commit these crimes.
Nina Ahmad, a member of the City Council of Philadelphia, who, like Hasan, comes from Bangladesh, submitted a reference letter for him, citing his assist and work in the Bangladesh community.
Ahmad did not answer the request to comment on the letter.
Jim Allen, Director of the Delaware election, said that such cases in Millbourne undermine faith in choices everywhere.
“People of the mind of conspiracy theory will accept this and think that a similar program can be made in elections in the whole state or national,” he told the judge. “Everywhere, everywhere, there was real damage to the reputation of elections. And all this was because of selfish motivation to dishonesty.”
Both Hasan and Islam were ordered to surrender and start the sentence by August 15.
Carter Walker is a Valbeat reporter in cooperation with Spotlight Pa. Contact Carter at the address cwalker@votebeat.org.
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