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In addition, Stocker said he submitted documents to the U.S. attorney's office and FBI from an «anonymous» person he believed to be an Erie County employee, alleging Jacobs is circumventing federal campaign donation limits.

U.S. Senator Dean Heller from Nevada, New York Representative Tom Reed and North Carolina U.S. Senator Richard Burr — all vocal proponents of renewables — together accounted for more than 40 % of the Solar Energy Industries Association PAC's total federal campaign donations.

The drugmaker's political action committee spent $ 405,000 on federal campaign donations and other political outlays last year, more than in 2016 — an election year — and nearly double its allocation for 2015, data compiled by Kaiser Health News show.

Not exact matches

While corporations are prohibited from contributing to federal political campaigns, in 2013 46 of the top 60 TSX companies still gave money to candidates at the provincial level (where in many cases corporate donations are still allowed).

Under federal law, individuals can donate a maximum of $ 5,400 to a presidential campaign, and corporations are barred from making direct donations.

The Federal Election Commission in 2014 allowed campaigns for federal office to accept Bitcoin donFederal Election Commission in 2014 allowed campaigns for federal office to accept Bitcoin donfederal office to accept Bitcoin donations.

We first partnered with CoinVox to make it simple for political candidates to accept bitcoin and remain compliant with federal and state regulations around campaign donations.

In its complaints to the Justice Department and the FEC last month, Common Cause argued that the alleged payment to Daniels likely violated federal campaign - finance laws as an unreported, in - kind donation to Trump's campaign.

Federal Liberal leadership contender Martha Hall Findlay says she has encountered many people who have been inundated by robocalls asking for donations to the provincial leadership campaigns.

, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federFederal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federalfederal law.

If the money was connected to Trump's ongoing presidential campaign, then it may count as an in - kind campaign contribution by Cohen — one that apparently went unreported to the Federal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federFederal Election Commission and exceeded the legal limit for individual donations under federalfederal law.

In its complaints to the Justice Department and the Federal Election Commission (FEC), Common Cause argues that the alleged payment to Stephanie Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, likely violated federal campaign - finance laws as an unreported, in - kind donation to Trump's caFederal Election Commission (FEC), Common Cause argues that the alleged payment to Stephanie Clifford, whose stage name is Stormy Daniels, likely violated federal campaign - finance laws as an unreported, in - kind donation to Trump's cafederal campaign - finance laws as an unreported, in - kind donation to Trump's campaign.

However, this money is comprised by the donations of many non-governmental organizations such as World Vision (large grants from the federal government) and the Red Cross accu - mulated from different parts of the globe through various campaigns in support of Haiti.

The [Federal Election Campaign] Act does not prohibit individuals with permanent resident status (commonly referred to as «green card holders») from making contributions or donations in connection with federal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign natFederal Election Campaign] Act does not prohibit individuals with permanent resident status (commonly referred to as «green card holders») from making contributions or donations in connection with federal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign natfederal, state or local elections, as they are not considered foreign nationals.

G. Steven Pigeon, one of the top figures in upstate New York's Democratic politics, found himself in a Buffalo courtroom again today — this time to answer federal charges that he conspired to illegally obtain a $ 25,000 donation for Gov. Andrew Cuomo's campaign from a foreign national.

The mayor is also facing federal investigations around two businessmen, Jeremy Reichberg and Jona Rechnitz, who provided cash and trips to high - ranking NYPD officers, and donations the men made to the mayor's campaign and to a non-profit, the Campaign for One New York, that de Blasio used to push his politicalcampaign and to a non-profit, the Campaign for One New York, that de Blasio used to push his politicalCampaign for One New York, that de Blasio used to push his political agenda.

The other three were Paul Adler, a former Rockland County politico who pleaded guilty to felony fraud and bribery in 2002; James Capalino, the lobbyist who tried to get a deed restriction lifted on a nonprofit nursing home on the Lower East Side; and Sant Singh Chatwal, a hotelier who pleaded guilty in 2014 to federal campaign finance donations for making straw donations.

Electoral Commission figures show the four federal independent MPs received a total of $ 176,000 in campaign donations.

Rangel was found to have misused federal resources to solicit donations for a City College of New York center named in his honor, used a rent - stabilized apartment for his campaign office, failed to pay taxes on a villa in the Dominican Republic and filed inaccurate financial disclosure forms.

And Nixon's pledge to refuse corporate donations doesn't actually mean as much in New York as it does on the federal level, because of New York's lax campaign finance laws, said Alex Camarda, senior policy adviser at Reinvent Albany.

In addition to a federal investigation into whether Campaign for One New York donors, many of whom had business before the city, received anything for their donation, authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 violated campaign finance and electiCampaign for One New York donors, many of whom had business before the city, received anything for their donation, authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 violated campaign finance and electicampaign finance and election laws.

A campaign staffer for city Comptroller John Liu was arrested Tuesday afternoon, making her the second person associated with Liu's mayoral campaign to be charged by federal officials in connection with questionable donations, according to court documents.

UPTOWN — Two candidates currently running to replace Rep. Charles Rangel for the 13th congressional district are scrambling to return campaign donations they received from businessmen embroiled in a federal investigation that's rocked the NYPD and City Hall.

People and entities associated with a company that's reportedly part of a federal investigation into a close associate of Gov. Andrew Cuomo have given at least a quarter million dollars in donations to Cuomo's campaign fund, records show.

Now those donations, solicited in part by the mayor's campaign apparatus, are under scrutiny as part of a multipronged criminal investigation being conducted by federal and state authorities, several people briefed on the matter have said.

The elder Mr. Kushner built the family's real estate business into a multibillion - dollar empire of apartments and land until he was sent to federal prison in 2005 for tax evasion, witness tampering and illegal campaign donations, many of them to Democratic candidates.

Federal authorities are looking into whether donors to the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit the mayor launched to advance his political agenda, received favors in exchange for their donations.

The mayor has said publicly that he will wait for the outcome of the federal probe before deciding whether to to return their campaign donations to him.

The mayor is also facing a federal inquiry into the fundraising efforts of the Campaign for One New York, a nonprofit to advance the mayor's agenda that was not subject to campaign finance rules regarding disclosure and donationCampaign for One New York, a nonprofit to advance the mayor's agenda that was not subject to campaign finance rules regarding disclosure and donationcampaign finance rules regarding disclosure and donation limits.

Multiple federal and state probes are examining whether donors to the mayor's nonprofit received anything in return for their donation and if de Blasio and his team violated election and campaign finance laws by funneling money to upstate senate candidates.

NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign plans to return $ 32,200 to seven contributors, just weeks after it was disclosed that state and federal investigators were looking into possibly illegal donations to his 2013 run for City Hall.

Federal and state corruption investigators are studying documents, emails and financial records related to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign donations.

Federal authories are accusing longtime political operative G. Steven Pigeon of conspiring to help make an illegal campaign donation by a Canadian interest.

The donation was revealed ahead of the deadline for candidates to submit campaign finance reports to the Federal Election Commission.

The federal probe is checking whether some donors to de Blasio's mayoral run were either reimbursed for their contributions or given cash to pass along to the campaign in order to skirt the city's donation limits, according to sources.

Kennedy would not identify the candidate but in the main lobby of the federal courthouse in downtown Buffalo, Pigeon's attorney Paul Cambria identified Governor Andrew Cuomo's campaign as the recipient of the donation.

Federal election law allows campaign donations to be used for many different things.

A federal investigation into NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's campaign fund - raising has zeroed in on whether donations were exchanged for beneficial city action in about a half - dozen cases, according to people with knowledge of the inquiry.

Under federal and state laws it can be a crime known as a «conduit contribution» to reimburse someone who makes a donation to a political campaign, in order to hide the true origin of the money.

In testimony at the federal bribery trial of former city correction union boss Norman Seabrook, Rechnitz told how he bought the key to the city for some $ 160,000 in donations to de Blasio and the state Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, plus tens of thousands of dollars more in gifts to NYPD brass.

Those donations and campaign events hosted at the restaurant are now the subject of a federal investigation with which Singh is cooperating, Newsday has reported, citing unnamed sources.

Federal investigators are conducting a probe into donations which the mayor's now - defunct group, Campaign for One New York, received.

Rosie O'Donnell made illegally over-sized campaign donations to at least five Democratic federal candidates, according to a Post analysis of campaign filings.

Paul «Effy» Raps and Yaron Turgeman each forked over the maximum $ 4,950 in donations bundled by businessman Jona Rechnitz, who is at the center of a federal probe into NYPD corruption and shady de Blasio campaign finances.

«So I checked the Federal Election Commission, as relates to campaign donations, for most of us that is, I guess.

A campaign can tap their wallets again and again without running up against federal donation limits.

DNAinfo reported last week that federal investigators were scrutinizing de Blasio's campaign for straw donations.

Well - heeled campaign contributors can now funnel millions of dollars of cash into political Super PACS after a federal judge Thursday struck down New York's $ 150,000 limit on such donations as...

Flanagan went on to point to the ongoing state and federal investigations of campaign donations orchestrated — potentially illegally — by supporters of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio in key state Senate races in 2014 and an April special election on Long Island.

One area that he will not instruct it to examine will be the issue of outside nonprofit groups created to take donations to support an elected official's policies, like the Campaign for One New York, which was created for Mr. de Blasio, and whose efforts were later examined by state and federal investigators.