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Kelsey pleaded guilty in November 2022 to charges related to his attempts to funnel campaign money from his state legislative seat toward his failed 2016 congressional bid and he reported to federal prison last month.
Brian Kelsey is now an inmate at FCI Ashland in Kentucky, according to a federal Bureau of Prisons database.
The former state senator’s most recent attempt to stay out of prison alleged government misconduct and that his legal counsel was ineffective.
A three-judge panel from the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Kelsey’s lawyer failed to sufficiently object to any alleged breach of his plea agreement.
The judge determined that Kelsey had raised a “substantial and close question that is integral to the merits of his convictions” and did not appeal for the sole purpose of delay.
Prosecutors say Kelsey’s request for bail is another delay tactic. The parties are set for oral arguments on the bail motion Thursday, Sept. 21.
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The former state senator from Germantown received his sentence in the case centering on his attempts to funnel campaign money from his legislative seat toward supporting his failed 2016 congressional bid.
Kelsey is now scheduled to be sentenced Aug. 11 at 1 p.m. in federal court in Nashville. Brian Kelsey’s sentencing was delayed again. Here’s a timeline of his legal odyssey.Related story:
Here’s a look back at the timeline that led to former state Sen. Brian Kelsey’s expected sentencing hearing Thursday, July 27, on two campaign-finance felonies.
Former state Sen. Brian Kelsey’s criminal campaign fraud case will not proceed to trial after a Middle Tennessee judge Tuesday rejected his request to withdraw his two guilty pleas.
“Brian Kelsey is certainly not the only example of the moral bankruptcy of so much of our society; he’s just a ready and easy pick of low-hanging rotten fruit.”
Following his attempt to back out of a plea deal, former state Sen. Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) will appear in federal court in Nashville May 16 for an evidentiary hearing in his campaign fraud case.
“There is no indication that the defendant did not understand his plea,” prosecutors wrote in documents filed Friday, April 14. “The defendant identifies no case in which a court has permitted a defendant so sophisticated to withdraw a valid plea so late with so little justification.”
The sentencing has been canceled after the Germantown Republican last week asked to withdraw his two guilty pleas on campaign fraud charges.
Lawyers for former state Sen. Brian Kelsey — who chaired the Senate Judiciary Committee — argued he pleaded guilty in November in part because of his “inexperience with the criminal justice system.”
The Germantown Republican pleaded guilty on Nov. 22 to two counts related to his unsuccessful run for Congress in 2016; about two weeks later, the Tennessee Supreme Court suspended his license to practice law.
State Sen. Brian Kelsey requested a hearing to change his plea eight days after an associate pleaded guilty.
Tennessee voters have the opportunity to pass a constitutional amendment that would ban all-union workplaces and require unions to provide services for which workers do not have to pay.
Up until Thursday, state Sen. Brian Kelsey had maintained a defiant tone in response to an indictment regarding federal campaign finance laws.
After the Tennessee Legislature adjourned for the year, Brian Kelsey continued to tweet his views on national and state political issues with no reference to the criminal charges he faced. As of Thursday, it appears his Twitter account has been deleted.
“I’m fully aware of the arguments against voting. It’s a waste of time. It won’t change anything. No time to vote. Can’t trust any of them. My candidate won’t win anyway. But our lives are affected by the people we vote into office.”
Republican Brent Taylor says he wants to focus on crime and business, rather than culture wars. Ruby Powell-Dennis wants to flip the seat for the Democrats with a message of ending racial and economic injustice.
Since an injunction was lifted last month, the state has been working to make taxpayer-funded private school vouchers available by the time class starts — which in Shelby County is Monday, Aug. 8.
During the legislative session that ended last week, Tennessee lawmakers enacted laws limiting local control related to police, pipelines, voting and more.