TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Dec 20, 2021

State Sen. Brian Kelsey, R-Germantown, has been granted a yearlong delay for his federal campaign finance trial, the Tennessee Journal reports. Originally scheduled to begin next month, the trial was reset by U.S. District Judge Waverly Crenshaw to Jan. 23, 2023. The motion to delay the case was made by Kelsey’s legal team and was unopposed by the U.S. attorney’s office or co-defendant Josh Smith. Kelsey’s attorney Paul Bruno told the court that he is scheduled to go to trial in a quadruple homicide case in January and did not believe he had enough time to prepare for both trials. Kelsey faces charges of funneling campaign funds from his state account through other political action committees to the American Conservative Union, which then allegedly spent the funds on Kelsey’s unsuccessful bid for the 8th Congressional District in 2016. Kelsey has denied any wrongdoing.