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Posted by: Kate Prince on Oct 11, 2022

Joshua Smith, owner of Nashville members-only club The Standard, has agreed to plead guilty for his role in what prosecutors say was a campaign finance conspiracy benefitting state Sen. Brian Kelsey’s failed 2016 Congressional campaign. According to the Tennessean, Smith and Kelsey, R-Germantown, were indicted last fall after federal prosecutors said they illegally shuffled "soft money" from Kelsey's Tennessee state Senate campaign committee to his authorized federal campaign committee. Kelsey is not seeking reelection to his Senate seat and is scheduled to go to trial in January on the federal charges.