The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld the conviction of Republican operative Jesse Benton for orchestrating an illegal payment from a Russian national to Donald Trump’s presidential campaign and the Republican National Committee.

Benton is married to Ron Paul’s granddaughter.
He worked on Ron Paul and Rand Paul’s campaigns.
He was Mitch McConnell’s re-election campaign manager in 2014, until he had to go because he was later convicted in 2016 of illegal payments/cover-up to buy an Iowan politician’s endorsement of Ron Paul.

TFG pardoned him in 2020.

THEN he committed more election crimes, this time involving Russian money and Trump.