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Ken Smukler
Ken Smukler is a nationally recognized political consultant who designed and executed groundbreaking technologies for the media coverage of U.S. presidential elections from 2004 th...view moreKen Smukler is a nationally recognized political consultant who designed and executed groundbreaking technologies for the media coverage of U.S. presidential elections from 2004 through 2016 for NBC (2004), CNN (2008), RadioOne (2012), and ViceNews (2016).
In 2016, he began to expose a network of hate-based emails circulating among law enforcement agencies at the federal, state, and local levels; a network that included state judges, public defenders, and the criminal defense bar in Pennsylvania – a scandal that became known as “Porngate.”
In 2017, Mr. Smukler was indicted by federal prosecutors for alleged violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act for election activity conducted in 2012 and 2014. He was subsequently convicted on 7 of eleven counts.
Mr. Smukler was sentenced to serve 18 months in the Fairton Federal Correctional Institution where he served 310 days, which is where this part of our story begins…and ends.view less