HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2013 A former campaign aide for a U.S. House candidate will serve four to eight years in prison, according to the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General.<\/p>\n
Kirk Rice, 66, of Cheswick, Allegheny County, was paid $1,340 to collect signatures for the nominating petition of Democratic candidate Steve Irwin, who sought election in 2022 to the 12th Congressional District in western Pennsylvania. Irwin finished as runner-up to current U.S. Rep. Summer Lee.<\/p>\n
kAmx?DE625 @7 AC@A6C=J AFCDF:?8 E96 D:8?2EFC6D 7C@> G6C:7:65 s6>@4C2E:4 G@E6CD[ #:46 25>:EE65 \ud83d\ude15 4@FCE E92E 96 D:>A=J H2=<65 2C@F?5 !:EED3FC89 2?5 D@F89E D:8?2EFC6D 7C@> A6@A=6 H:E9@FE 5@:?8 2?J G6C:7:42E:@?[ 244@C5:?8 E@ pEE@C?6J v6?6C2= s2G6 $F?52J]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAmp>@?8 E96 D:8?2EFC6D E92E H6C6 72=D:7:65 3J #:46[ $F?52J D2:5[ @?6 H2D D:8?65 F?56C E96 ?2>6 @7 &]$] s:DEC:4E r@FCE yF586 r2E9J q:DD@@?]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAm#:46 H2D 4@?G:4E65 \ud83d\ude15 |2J 3J 2? p==6896?J r@F?EJ ;FCJ @7 `d 4@F?ED @7 :56?E:EJ E967E[ @?6 4@F?E @7 E967E 3J 5646AE:@?[ `d 4@F?ED @7 7@C86CJ[ EH@ 4@F?ED @7 A6C;FCJ 2?5 C6=2E65 492C86D]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAmx? 255:E:@? E@ E96 AC:D@? D6?E6?46[ #:46 C646:G65 hb >@?E9D @7 AC@32E:@?[ \ud83d\ude00 C6BF:C65 E@ C6A2J E96 S`[bc_ E@ xCH:?\u2019D 42>A2:8? \u2013 #:46 H2D A2:5 A6C D:8?2EFC6 \u2013 2?5 \ud83d\ude00 AC@9:3:E65 7C@> H@C<:?8 7@C 2?J 4@F?EJ 6=64E:@? 56A2CE>6?E @C 7C@> 4:C4F=2E:?8 ?@>:?2E:?8 A6E:E:@?D[ $F?52J D2:5]k^Am<\/p>\n
kAmQ%9:D 5676?52?EVD 24E:@?D 2C6 2? 277C@?E E@ 6G6CJ G@E6C H9@ 6IA64ED 9@?6DEJ 2?5 244@F?E23:=:EJ \ud83d\ude15 @FC 6=64E:@?D[Q $F?52J D2:5] Q~G6C 2?5 @G6C 282:?[ E9:D 5676?52?E 567C2F565 2 DJDE6> 32D65 @? 7C66 2?5 72:C 6=64E:@?D] %9:D D6?E6?46 D9@F=5 D6CG6 2D 2 C6>:?56C E92E >J @77:46 H:== :?G6DE:82E6 2?J 2?5 2== EJA6D @7 6=64E:@? 7C2F5[ ?@ >2EE6C E96 A6CD@? @C A@=:E:42= A2CEJ]Qk^Am<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HARRISBURG, Pa. \u2013 A former campaign aide for a U.S. House candidate will serve four to eight years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272256,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[6147,73,75,74],"class_list":["post-272255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-pittsburgh","tag-national_news","tag-pittsburgh","tag-pittsburgh-headlines","tag-pittsburgh-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}