ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former Democratic strategist has been sentenced to prison for federal firearms and bank fraud convictions.
The U.S. Attorney's office in St. Louis said Friday that 38-year-old Milton “Skip” Ohlsen III will serve 30 months. Ohlsen, who pleaded guilty in May, also must pay restitution of $99,871.
His attorney Paul D'Agrosa did not immediately return a call for comment.
The criminal case was unrelated to a federal investigation that led to the resignations of two Democratic state legislators.
Federal court documents identified Ohlsen as having approached former state Sen. Jeff Smith's congressional campaign in July 2004 and offered to produce and distribute negative ads aimed at his opponent, Russ Carnahan.
Smith approved the plan, former Rep. Steve Brown raised money for the effort and aides provided Ohlsen negative information about Carnahan to use in the ads.
The two Democrats pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice and resigned in August. Both await sentencing.
Demo as in Democratic
or Demo as in Demonstrate? Were he a Republican I'm certain the headline would read Republican. Rep could confuse a reader into thinking it was a Representative elected to office.
This Democratic party adviser may also have been involved in a the bombing of an attorney in a St. Louis parking garage according to recent reports in the St. Louis Post Dispatch.
In any event it's clearly a case of Democrat on Democrat crime.