Campaign treasurer agrees to eight-year sentence
Former campaign treasurer Kinde Durkee agreed Tuesday with a recommendation by federal prosecutors that she be sentenced to eight years in prison for stealing $7 million from as many as 50 political clients, including U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein.
Such a punishment “is a just and appropriate sentence,” says a court filing by Durkee’s attorney, Daniel V. Nixon, on the eve of her sentencing.
The 15-page filing, set to be considered Wednesday by U.S. District Judge Kimberly J. Mueller in Sacramento, is the first detailed explanation Durkee has offered about what happened to the money she stole. She has been largely silent on the issue.
-- Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times