In 2008, Gerry defended high profile lawyer Geoffrey Fieger, the lawyer whose national claim to fame was defending Dr. Kevorkian, the «death doctor,» in Detroit, Michigan on charges
alleging illegal campaign contributions.
Not exact matches
At least two complaints to the Federal Election Commission
allege that the money was meant to influence the presidential election and therefore amounted to an
illegal in - kind
contribution to the Trump
campaign.
Trump is already facing a complaint from the watchdog group Common Cause, which argues that Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's payment of $ 130,000 to Stormy Daniels in exchange for her silence about an
alleged affair with Trump may have been an
illegal campaign contribution.
The payment Cohen made to her is now the subject of complaints to the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission,
alleging that it was an
illegal campaign contribution.
The week began with the leak of a confidential report by the state's elections enforcer that
alleged that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had engaged in an
illegal effort to circumvent
campaign contribution limits in his 2014 push to bolster the re-election prospects of some sitting state Senate Democrats, who presumably would be more favorable to the democrat mayor's city agenda in Albany.
It has filed evidence with the FEC
alleging that the super-PAC Make America Number 1 made
illegal contributions to Trump's
campaign, «engaging in unlawful coordinated spending by using the common vendor Cambridge Analytica».