Former liquor executive Christopher Tigani was given a suspended sentence for campaign finance fraud in a Delaware Superior Court after entering a plea deal with prosecutors with six years of probation to begin after is he released from a federal two year sentence for tax evasion and campaign donation fraud.
Tigani had faced 9 felony counts but only pled to three under the plea agreement.
But Superior Court Judge William Carpenter in accepting the plea told the courtroom that it was unfortunate that the investigation into political corruption did not “lead to others.”
The Wilmington News Journal reports that Tigani was the only person accused of campaign-donation violations after a nearly two-year investigation by special prosecutor E. Norman Veasey.
Delaware State Attorney General Beau Biden appointed an independent investigator in 2011 after the federal prosecutor carried out their prosecution.
The illegal contributions involved presidential and US Senate candidates as well as gubernatorial and General Assembly campaigns.
