Sentences with phrase «court on a campaign finance»

She blasted decisions from the Supreme Court on campaign financing, especially money from the very rich.

Ezra has represented clients before the Federal Election Commission, before the Internal Revenue Service, and in federal court on campaign finance and non-profit tax issues.

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October 4, 1992, AP Joseph J. DioGuardi, who is seeking election to a House seat he lost amid charges of campaign finance irregularities, tried to avoid paying taxes through an investment scheme designed to lose money, according to U.S. Tax Court records... In 1978, DioGuardi was a partner in Daga Financial Co., which bought and sold options and futures on stocks and securities, according to court paCourt records... In 1978, DioGuardi was a partner in Daga Financial Co., which bought and sold options and futures on stocks and securities, according to court pacourt papers.

An Albany City Court judge ordered former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry Wojtaszek to pay a $ 1,000 fine for violating a state campaign finance law in 2012, after he pleaded guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors working on the case against former State Sen. George Maziarz.

Some political liberals, appalled at the liberation of monied interests to spend immense amounts on elections, support a convention for the purpose of overruling the Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United that declared unconstitutional most imitations on campaign finance.

The good - government group Common Cause vehemently disagreed with Gov. Andrew Cuomo's assertion on Monday in a radio interview that the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Citizens United case made it impossible for major campaign - finance law changes.

An Albany City Court judge on Friday ordered former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry F. Wojtaszek to pay a $ 1,000 fine for violating a state campaign finance law in 2012.

BRASILIA (Reuters)- Brazil's top electoral court on Tuesday decided to hear new witnesses in an illegal campaign financing case that could remove President Michel Temer from office, delaying any verdict in the trial until at least May.

Also at noon, NYC Reform Party mayoral candidate Sal Albanese files a suit to join the NYC Campaign Finance Board's sponsored mayoral debate to be broadcast on NY1 on Oct. 10, New York County Supreme Court, 60 Centre St., Manhattan.

The problem is not only that New York State has such lousy campaign finance laws, but also that the U.S. Supreme Court has their heads firmly planted in their posteriors on this subject.

He says he's somewhat hamstrung on campaign finance reform due to the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizen United decision that permits unlimited outside expenditures in campaigns.

The 23 - count indictment, revealed in Richmond County Supreme Court on Wednesday, includes a variety of charges related to improper campaign finance activities.

In 2010, the Supreme Court issued a ruling that dramatically changed campaign finance laws, removing the cap on what outside groups, like the NRA, can spend to influence elections.

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to uphold the Citizens Union campaign - finance ruling on Monday could lead to a bolstering of laws here in New York, hopeful advocates say.

The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of As - Sahabah Limited, Mr Prince Osman Sahibi told the court that he uncovered the rot on the eve of this year's Eid al - Fitr festival on June 25, and upon questioning, the convict confessed using the money to finance the campaign of the NPP in the region.

Democrats argue that the Supreme Court is changing the campaign - finance landscape in decisions like Citizens United and McCutcheon by striking down limits on corporate donations and expenditures, which they say gives Republicans the advantage.

In response to the court decisions, the supplemental grants were removed from the state's campaign financing law; the basic grant of public money to gubernatorial candidates was doubled to make participants more competitive and a low, $ 100 limit was placed on lobbyist contributions, thus limiting their influence.

The court's conservative majority gave a skeptical reception to one of the least known features of campaign - finance law: caps the federal government imposes on the total amount of money any individual donor can give to federal candidates, national political party committees and federal political action committees.

Camille Siano Enders, who was fired last month by the state Department of Taxation and Finance for allegedly campaigning on state time, has suspended her bid for state Supreme Court in the Fourth District.

HARLEM — The lawyer representing embattled Comptroller John Liu's former campaign treasurer Jenny Hou begged for donations to help pay her legal fees Monday night, hours before she was set to appear in court on a slew of campaign finance charges.

He said he's somewhat hamstrung on campaign finance reform due to the U.S. Supreme Court's Citizen United decision that permits unlimited outside expenditures in campaigns.

Senator Charles E. Schumer, left, accompanied by Rep. Chris Van Hollen, spoke about campaign finance reform after the Supreme Court ruling on Thursday.

Ganim was back in federal court on Wednesday seeking to overturn a decision by the State Elections Enforcement Commission that his conviction makes him ineligible for the state's generous public campaign finance program.

Reuters — A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday tossed out a challenge to New York City anti-corruption campaign finance laws, finding the so - called «pay to play» rules do not violate free speech rights.

Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy says he'd rather see the Congress craft a constitutional amendment to overturn recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions on campaign finance than have states call a constitutional convention to address the issue.

To help raise awareness of our campaign finance crisis, the Southold Democrats are participating in a national action on whatever day the McCutcheon decision is handed down by the Supreme Court.

The unions and Cuomo are prepared to publicly agitate for Democratsto take control of the State Senate if there's no deal reached on a broader system of public campaign finance, which many in the institutional left see as necessary to combat court decisions that have open floodgates of spending by the rich.

WASHINGTON — In another sharp blow to the campaign - finance system in effect since the 1970s, the Supreme Court on Wednesday struck down a key contribution limit in federal races...

The two Republicans do disagree on campaign financing and the Supreme Court's Citizens United decision, with Faso believing it was correct and Heaney believing it was not.

The case is ongoing, and McDonald and the New York City Campaign Finance Board are set to appear in court on March 12.

By contrast, the brief, shared with The New York Times by its drafters, cites past Supreme Court rulings dear to conservatives, including the Citizens United decision lifting restrictions on campaign financing, and a Washington, D.C., Second Amendment case that overturned a law barring handgun ownership.

There were also deals, or near deals, to bar campaign donations from those seeking state contracts, create a public campaign financing system for state Supreme Court judicial candidates, and require state lawmakers to seek a formal opinion on whether their outside income represents conflicts of interest.

The corporate - state was certified as constitutional by the US Supreme Court in its recent decision on corporate campaign financing.

While a portion of the blame rests with the unprecedented Citizens United decision by the United States Supreme Court, in which companies were determined to be people for the purposes of campaign finance laws, Connecticut's present campaign laws, along with their appearance of corruption, rests on the shoulders of Governor Malloy and the Democrats in the Legislature.

His articles focus on money in politics, economic justice, campaign finance reform, fair courts, voting rights, and the activities of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC).

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard McCutcheon vs. Federal Election Commission, which may become as much a chapter of the history of climate change as it is a case about campaign finance law.

He had many notable successes — in the Court's recent series of decisions related to the war on terror; in limiting federal preemption of state law (Wyeth v. Levine); upholding federal campaign finance laws (McConnell v. FEC); and in the environmental area (Massachusetts v. EPA).

Depending upon the particular campaign finance law involved, which isn't clearly specified, there might be a criminal penalty (either a misdemeanor or a minor felony) as well, which could give rise to a probation sentence, a sentence to some period of incarceration, a period of post-release parole, criminal fines, court costs, and, at least in the case of a felony, some collateral consequences of that conviction such as a prohibition on owning a gun and ineligibility for many occupations and jobs.

So now, as SCOTUS Blog reported here last week, the case is on direct appeal to the Supreme Court pursuant to a special federal campaign finance law.

The U.S. Supreme Court, in cases like Citizens United, has loosened restrictions on independent spending, and the federal agency regulating campaign finance is paralyzed by a partisan stalemate.

Let's start with the obvious: I think Rick Hasen is exactly right to suggest that such a move by the lefties is actually a «relative victory» for campaign finance reformers, given the extent to which» [t] aking the case would have been an opportunity for the majority of Supreme Court justices to make things worse [from the reformers» perspective], such as by suggesting that limits on direct contributions to candidates are unconstitutional.»

On the editorial page of today's edition of The Washington Post: The newspaper contains editorials entitled «Campaign Finance Bellwether: The Supreme Court's Vermont ruling seems like a defeat for reformers; In the long run, it may not be» and «Flagging Rhetoric: Once again, the Senate celebrates the Fourth of July the wrong way.»