1. Kent Sorenson was born on March 29,1972 and is a former Iowa state legislator who resigned after pleading guilty to obstruction of justice and other felonies related to campaign finances.
23 Facts About Kent Sorenson
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Kent Sorenson was the owner and operator of Pro-Kleen Maintenance.
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Kent Sorenson is not listed as an agent on the EXIT website.
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Kent Sorenson was elected to the Iowa House of Representatives in 2008, defeating incumbent Democrat Mark Davitt.
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Kent Sorenson ran for the Senate in 2010, defeating incumbent Democrat Staci Appel.
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Kent Sorenson was the ranking member of both the Senate and Joint Oversight Committees and a member of the Advisory Council for Agricultural Education, the Family Development and Self-Sufficiency Council, and the Human Rights Board.
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On December 28,2011, Kent Sorenson resigned as Michele Bachmann's Iowa campaign chairman and endorsed Ron Paul for president.
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In July 2012, Barb Heki, a Johnston, Iowa, woman who once worked for Bachmann, began legal proceedings against the former Bachmann campaign and her senior campaign aides, claiming Kent Sorenson took an email list from her private computer to promote Bachmann's candidacy among Christian homeschooling advocates before the Iowa caucuses, and that she was unjustly blamed for its use.
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We'll present evidence that Senator Kent Sorenson never said anything that could be construed as defamatory.
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The Iowa Senate Ethics Committee assigned a state special investigator, who reported "probable cause" that Kent Sorenson had broken Senate rules by accepting money for presidential campaign work.
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The 566-page report stated that Kent Sorenson had received a $25,000 check from a top official of Paul's presidential campaign, as well as from a political action committee connected to the Bachmann campaign.
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Kent Sorenson switched from Bachmann's campaign to Paul's in the closing days of the GOP caucuses.
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Kent Sorenson had long denied being paid by any of the presidential campaigns.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation executed a search warrant in mid-November 2013 at Kent Sorenson's home, confiscating computers and other materials relating to communications.
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Kent Sorenson resigned from the Iowa Senate on October 2,2013, after a special investigator appointed by the Iowa Supreme Court, Mark Weinhardt, found he likely violated ethics rules by taking money from political entities connected to Bachmann and Paul, but denied he had done so.
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On October 3,2013, Iowa Attorney General's Office spokesman Geoff Greenwood said Kent Sorenson could be charged with a crime and prosecuted.
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Kent Sorenson was charged with domestic abuse, assault and interference with official acts.
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Deputies reported Shawnee had redness around her left eye and stated she had been struck by Kent Sorenson, who is right-handed.
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Kent Sorenson was charged with one count of domestic abuse and two counts of interference with official acts.
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Kent Sorenson made an Alford plea to the disorderly conduct charge, maintaining his innocence while admitting that he could be found guilty under the facts of the incident.
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Kent Sorenson pleaded guilty to one count of causing a federal campaign committee to falsely report its expenditures to the FEC and one count of obstruction of justice in connection with the concealed expenditures on August 27,2014.
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Benton was indicted for allegedly arranging $73,000 in payments to Kent Sorenson to convince him to flip his endorsement from Bachmann to Paul.
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Kent Sorenson failed a condition of pre-sentencing probation on September 30,2014, as a drug test came back positive for marijuana.