Sonia Hawkes Lewis was convicted of four felonies and sentenced to probation and a fine.
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Badlands MediaAug 11, 2026
None of the provided sources mention Sonia Hawkes Lewis, so the claim about her four felony convictions, probation, and fine cannot be checked. The extracted claim matches the passage, which says she was convicted of four felonies and got probation and a fine, but the passage itself is the claimant's words and not evidence.
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… on the political party of the person involved, like Tina Peters and, um, Sonia Hawkes Lewis, both convicted of four felonies, both went to trial, convicted of a jury by a jury of four felonies, one of which was the same felony. Tina Peters got nine years. Sonia Hawkes Lewis got probation and a fine. So, yeah, that concerns me too. Launching investigations against political opponents at the direction of the president, yeah, I mean, all of the stuff that Joe Biden did to President Trump, you know, and his using Merrick Garland, and it's hard to say Joe …
Badlands Media · · from the transcriptPost →What we found
Context. The sources that mention a Lewis (Willie Lee Lewis, Shawn Lewis, Anthony Lewis Jr., Laterrian Lewis) are different people in different cases and do not address Sonia Hawkes Lewis.[5][6][7][8]
Context. No source covers the Tina Peters or Sonia Hawkes Lewis sentencing comparison that the post describes, so neither the conviction nor the sentence is corroborated or contradicted.[1][2][3][4][9]
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9 sources: 4 fact-checkers, 3 primary, 2 not rated
- 1United States – Full Factfullfact.org · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 2Reuters Fact Checkreuters.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 3Fact Check: Political & News Fact Check | AP Newsapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 4Fact Checks Archivesnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: context
- 5USCA11 Case: 19-15076 Date Filed: 10/28/2020 Pagemedia.ca11.uscourts.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 6People v Lewis (2022 NY Slip Op 04920)nycourts.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 7District Attorney News - Schenectady Countyschenectadycountyny.gov · primary source · cited for: context
- 8[PDF] No. 56353-KA - Louisiana Second Circuit Court of Appealla2nd.org · not rated · cited for: context
- 9Misinformation Toolkit – Full Factdev.fullfact.org · not rated · cited for: context
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