Two years later, D'Souza pleaded guilty in federal court to one felony charge of using a " straw donor" to make the illegal campaign contribution. At the time, the Election Act limited campaign contributions to $5,000 from any individual to any one candidate.
He directed two other people to give Long a total of $20,000 additional, which he agreed to reimburse, and later did. In 2012, D'Souza contributed $10,000 to the senate campaign of Wendy Long on behalf of himself and his wife, agreeing in writing to attribute that contribution as $5,000 from his wife and $5,000 from him.
D'Souza was a policy adviser in the administration of President Ronald Reagan and has been affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute and the Hoover Institution.
From 2010 to 2012, he was president of The King's College, a Christian school in New York City until he resigned after an alleged adultery scandal. īorn in Bombay, D'Souza moved to the United States as an exchange student and graduated from Dartmouth College. D'Souza's films and commentary have generated considerable controversy due to their promotion of conspiracy theories and falsehoods, as well as for their incendiary nature. He has since released five other documentary films: America: Imagine the World Without Her (2014), Hillary's America (2016), Death of a Nation (2018), Trump Card (2020) and 2000 Mules (2022). In 2012, D'Souza released the documentary film 2016: Obama's America, an anti- Barack Obama polemic based on his 2010 book The Roots of Obama's Rage it earned $33 million, making it the highest-grossing conservative documentary of all time and one of the highest-grossing documentaries of any kind. D'Souza has written over a dozen books, several of them New York Times best-sellers. Dinesh Joseph D'Souza ( / d ɪ ˈ n ɛ ʃ d ə ˈ s uː z ə/ born April 25, 1961) is an Indian-American right-wing political commentator, provocateur, author, filmmaker, and conspiracy theorist.
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