DOJ announced that an individual pleaded guilty in a reimbursed contribution scheme.

Jerry Pierce-Santos, 50, of Vienna, Va., pleaded guilty today before Magistrate Judge Alan Kay in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a single-count criminal information that charged him with making $17,000 in conduit contributions to a candidate seeking election to federal office during the 2003 calendar year. According to court documents, conduit contributions are illegal campaign contributions made by one person in the name of another person.