PORTLAND, Maine - An entrepreneur and developer with Maine ties has pleaded guilty in federal court to making illegal campaign contributions in the run-up to the 2012 U.S. presidential election.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Donald Clark says that 56-year-old Michael Liberty, of Windemere, Florida, has admitted to illegally making political contributions in the names of others to an unnamed presidential candidate's primary campaign committee.
"According to admissions he made in connection with his guilty plea, between May and June of 2011, Mr. Liberty made $22,500 in primary contributions through nine employees, associates and family members," Clark says.
Clark says Liberty actually paid for all of the contributions himself. Liberty faces up to 2 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.
Clark says a sentencing date has not yet been set, but he says, typically, sentencing would take place in two to three months.
