Sentences with phrase «accepting illegal contributions»

He was convicted in 2005 of accepting illegal contributions.

In a case that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee played up during the 2012 election, the ethics committee in July began a review of whether Grimm violated campaign - finance laws by seeking and accepting illegal contributions, created false reports and improperly sought assistance from a foreign national.

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A federal jury acquitted him in 2012 of accepting illegal political contributions and deadlocked on five other campaign finance charges, allowing him to retain his law license.

The Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA), passed by Congress in the early 1970s, had made it a federal offense for PACs to accept money from corporations, and Viacom — the corporate owner of Colbert's network — feared that it would face accusations of making illegal in - kind contributions should ColbertPAC become a fully functioning money - raising PAC.

Grant Lally, like Achilles, has a fatal weakness: he paid off the government when the Federal Elections Commission fined him $ 280,000 for accepting illegal campaign contributions from his parents, and then lied about it.

The jury could only agree on count 3 against Edwards, which related to accepting illegal campaign contributions from 101 - year - old supporter Rachel «Bunny» Mellon in 2008.

The Brooklyn group, Time for Change Consulting, is run by Musa Moore, a pal of Norman from his days as party leader before he was jailed for accepting illegal campaign contributions during his Assembly races.

Based on what the commission said in last month's decision, it could consider the Democrats» use of the federal account to be an impermissible «coordinated expenditure» with the state account, or an illegal contribution to the state account that's not allow to accept money fromo state contractors.

Last week, the Federal Election Commission found Guinta violated campaign finance rules by accepting more than $ 350,000 in illegal campaign contributions, ordering him to pay back the funds along with a $ 15,000 fine.

When will Professor B. H. Obama be held accountable for accepting illegal campaign contributions — in the tens of millions?

The board fined the campaign for multiple transgressions, including: inaccurate or nonexistent disclosure of monies; accepting a myriad of illegal contributions; expenditures «not permissible or election related»; and comingling funds.

But such spending made with the cooperation of a campaign is illegal because candidates are barred from accepting contributions from corporations under city law.

In another instance where Halloran allegedly accepted illegal campaign contributions and agreed to steer taxpayer money to a fake company, he raised his glass with a man secretly working for the FBI, who said, «Pleasure doing business with you.»