Federal judge delivers prison time to former local Pa. officials who tried to steal mayor's race

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A federal judge sentenced two former local officials from southeast Pennsylvania to harsher sentences than prosecutors requested, including prison time, for their roles in an attempt to steal a 2021 mayoral election.

“In the court’s view, there are very few crimes in our federal code which are more serious than what you have committed,” Judge Harvey Bartle III told defendant Md Nurul Hasan, the former council vice president and mayoral candidate in Millbourne Borough, who pleaded guilty in April to election-related fraud charges. “What you have done is undermine our democratic process.”

The judge sentenced Hasan to 36 months in prison, along with one year of supervised release. Another defendant, former Councilmember Md Rafikul Islam, was sentenced to a year and a day in prison, plus one year of supervised release and $1,700 in fines. The judge admonished prosecutors for recommending a lighter punishment for Islam.

The third defendant, Councilmember Md Munsur Ali, will be sentenced next week. Ali is still on the council, despite calls for him to step down.





https://www.spotlightpa.org/news/2025/06/pennsylvania-election-fraud-prison-sentence-borough-officials/

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1. Do not pass Go

Do not collect $200.

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2. Muhammad Nurul Hasan and Muhammad Rafikul Islam were sent to prison for election fraud in Pennsylvania,

and Muhammad Munsur Ali will be sentenced next week. Republican Judge Harvey Bartle III said, “In the court’s view, there are very few crimes in our federal code which are more serious than what you have committed. What you have done is undermine our democratic process."

I'll sleep better knowing the federal government takes election fraud so seriously.