Philadelphia-area political consultant Kenneth Smukler, who already faces charges related to allegedly paying off U.S. Rep. Bob Brady’s opponent in the 2012 congressional primary to drop out of the race, is now being accused by federal authorities of making hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal donations to a campaign in a different election and obstructing a Federal Election Commission investigation.

The superseding indictment issued Tuesday afternoon by a federal grand jury in Philadelphia restated the original charges against Smukler involving a $90,000 payment to Brady’s opponent, former Philadelphia Judge Jimmie Moore, and added new charges alleging that Smukler used his companies to inject cash into a losing candidate’s campaign in the 2014 Democratic congressional primary, while also having false financial reports filed to the FEC to hide the illicit payments made to the campaign.

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