Kenneth Smukler, a Philadelphia political consultant and former aide to U.S. Congressman Bob Brady, failed to convince the federal judge overseeing his criminal case to throw out evidence obtained from a March 2017 FBI raid of Smukler’s home.

U.S. District Judge Jan E. DuBois of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania denied Smukler’s motion to suppress evidence gathered by federal agents. Smukler was indicted in October 2017 for allegedly paying off one of Brady’s rivals in the 2012 Democratic primary to drop out of the race. He was charged last month in a superseding indictment with allegedly making hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal donations to former Congresswoman Marjorie Margolies’ campaign in her failed 2014 bid to reclaim the seat, while obstructing the corresponding federal investigation.