By Paul Walsh, (Minneapolis) Star Tribune (TNS)

Former Minnesota Republican operative Anton “Tony” Lazzaro is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review his trafficking conviction for paying five 15- to 16-year-old girls for sex.

Lazzaro, 34, was sentenced in August 2023 to 21 years in federal prison and is being held at the Sandstone Federal Correctional Institution with an August 2039 release date.

The U.S. Supreme Court last week notified the U.S. Court of Appeals of Lazzaro’s petition to have his case heard by the nation’s highest bench. Lazzaro lost his effort in February to have the appeals court overturn his conviction.

In his petition, Lazzaro argues that “the conduct alleged to be criminal consisted of little more than dating 16- and 17-year-old females.”

He goes on to

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