New York sources have stated that Federal prosecutors are demanding a prison sentence for 83 year old father of the embattled Indian American Congressman, Amerish Ami Bera, in an election funding fraud case, even though other officials have recommended only probation when the court decides the penalty next Thursday


The Sacremento Bee newspaper has reported that Assistant US Attorney Philip Ferrari has written to the Sacramento federal court in California that because of “the serious nature” of his offence, and Babulal Bera did not deserve leniency and he has admitted in May before Judge Troy L. Nunley that he was guilty of election funding fraud.


It is stated that Ferrari has written that the probation officer had said that sentencing guidelines called for a prison term of between three years, 10 months and four years, nine months but recommended that he serve no time in prison and pay a fine of only $30,200.


Meanwhile the California Democrat Congressman is running against the influential local Republican Sheriff Scott Jones. In the 2014 election he narrowly defeated his then Republican rival, Doug Ose, by just 1,455 votes, a margin of less than one percent and Prosecutors have cleared Ami Bera of any involvement in the fraud, which he said was carried out by his father without his knowledge.


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