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==2023-2024 election cycle: Business as usual==

==2023-2024 election cycle: Business as usual==

Former [[Louisiana]] Democratic Party chair and state Senator Karen Carter Peterson, who was endorsed by [[Black Lives Matter]], was sentenced to 22 months in prison in January 2023 for wire fraud that involved stealing from the DNC and then gambling away the funds at casinos.<ref>[https://youtu.be/rnUQ6bztNCE Democrat State Senator Sentenced to 22 Months in Prison for Fraud], Kip Simpson, January 15, 2023.</ref>  Peterson resigned in April 2022 and was charged a month later with wire fraud. She confessed to the [[crime]] and asserted she has a [[gambling]] problem. She pled guilty to funneling $147,000 of campaign and party funds to individuals and companies who would cash the checks and then give the money to Peterson. The scheme spanned seven years, according to the ''Louisiana Illuminator''.  The Department of Justice wrote in a July 2022 press release that Peterson filed “false and misleading” campaign finance reports to cover up the theft.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/01/12/blm-endorsed-democrat-off-to-prison-for-stealing-from-dnc-to-gamble-in-casinos-1324368/</ref>

Former [[Louisiana]] Democratic Party chair and state Senator Karen Carter Peterson, who was endorsed by [[Black Lives Matter]], was sentenced to 22 months in prison in January 2023 for wire fraud that involved stealing from the DNC and then gambling away the funds at casinos.<ref>[https://youtu.be/rnUQ6bztNCE Democrat State Senator Sentenced to 22 Months in Prison for Fraud], Kip Simpson, January 15, 2023.</ref>  Peterson resigned in April 2022 and was charged a month later with wire fraud. She confessed to the [[crime]] and asserted she has a [[gambling]] problem. She pled guilty to funneling $147,000 of campaign and party funds to individuals and companies who would cash the checks and then give the money to Peterson. The scheme spanned seven years, according to the ''Louisiana Illuminator''.  The Department of Justice wrote in a July 2022 press release that Peterson filed “false and misleading” campaign finance reports to cover up the theft.<ref>https://www.bizpacreview.com/2023/01/12/blm-endorsed-democrat-off-to-prison-for-stealing-from-dnc-to-gamble-in-casinos-1324368/</ref>

==Political positions==

==Political positions==