Lyndon LaRouche, an eight-time candidate for US president whose conspiracy theories attracted a small but devoted following, is dead. LaRouche’s political action committee, LaRouche PAC, announced his death on their website. LaRouche PAC said he died on Tuesday but did not say where or provide a cause of death. He first ran for the White House in 1976 as a candidate for the US Labor Party, which he founded. In 1988, LaRouche was convicted of mail fraud and tax evasion and sentenced to 15 years in prison.

Source: Punch February 13, 2019 23:03 UTC