Sentences with phrase «for illegal contributions»
Murphy has introduced a new bill that would expand penalties for illegal contributions from one year to seven years in jail.
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He has an interest in US prison reform because his father, Charles Kushner, served just over a year in federal prison after a conviction in 2005 for illegal campaign contributions and witness tampering.
A jury reportedly found Edwards not guilty on count three for taking illegal campaign contributions, but it was deadlocked on every other count.
It then appeared that the jury had only reached a unanimous verdict on count three for taking illegal campaign contributions from Bunny Mellon, Tapper reported.
Apple has paid fines to settle similar charges in other countries, including a $ 60 million fine in France in 2016 for imposing illegal terms on carriers there, such as mandatory contributions to a fund for iPhone advertising.
According to Trevor Potter, a former chairman of the Federal Election Commission who also appeared on 60 Minutes, the money may very well constitute «a coordinated, illegal, «in - kind» contribution by Cohen for the purpose of influencing the election.»
And both women's suits could provide more fodder for federal complaints from the watchdog group Common Cause that the payoffs were, effectively, illegal campaign contributions.
Prosecutors failed to get a conviction against Democratic Sen. John Edwards of North Carolina on charges that he received illegal contributions and falsified documents to pay for the silence of his pregnant mistress as he campaigned for president in 2008.
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.
As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers.»
Crabtree reimbursed employees for the contributions, which is illegal.
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.
One of Liu's top fundraisers, Oliver Pan, has also been indicted for allegedly funneling $ 16,000 in illegal contributions to the once - rising star's campaign.
And don't forget the party's ethically dubious corporate arm, Data & Field Services, which was set up as an «independent» consulting company — but which more likely was a vehicle for funneling massive, under - the - table illegal contributions to its candidates.
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.
A nonprofit group that Mr. Block ran contributed to the start - up of Mr. Cain's presidential run, serving as a conduit for possibly illegal contributions.
«As the jury unanimously found, Daniel Halloran played a key role in two distinct political corruption schemes: first, for $ 20,000, Halloran was willing and able to serve as a go - between to deliver bribes to political party officials, and second he also took nearly $ 25,000 in cash and illegal campaign contributions to steer $ 80,000 in City Council money to other bribe payers,» Mr. Bharara said in a statement.
'' — $ 280,000 — for receiving more than $ 300,000 in illegal campaign contributions from his parents for his 1994 primary and general election campaigns, and then lying about it.»
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.
Lopez succeeded former Assemblyman Clarence Norman as the boss of Brooklyn in 2005, after Mr. Norman was arrested for selling judgeships and receiving illegal campaign contributions.
«While the illegal killing of wildlife can never be justified and we totally condemn anybody that persecutes wildlife, it is also disappointing that the report does not give credit for shooting's massive and well - documented contribution to bird conservation.»
A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Dinesh D'Souza to five years of probation, including eight months in a community confinement center, ordering no jail time for the conservative author and pundit who pleaded guilty to using straw donors to make an illegal campaign contribution.
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.
The contributions — totaling more than $ 59,000 through July, according to the National Institute for Money in State Politics, a nonpartisan Montana - based watchdog group — are neither illegal nor unusual.
«As the jury found, Jia Hou and Oliver Pan stuck a knife into the heart of New York City's campaign finance law by violating the prohibition against illegal campaign contributions, all to corruptly advantage the campaign of a candidate for citywide office,» U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a press release.
Harendra Singh, a former Queens restaurateur who threw free fund - raisers for the mayor and raised thousands of dollars for him, said the mayor twice took a look - the - other - way approach when he broached the subject of illegal contributions.
A federal judge who spared Dinesh D'Souza prison time for illegal - campaign contributions shot down the conservative filmmaker's nervy request to push back reporting to a halfway house until after January...
HARLEM — Voters believe that Mayor Bill de Blasio «does favors for developers who make political contributions to campaigns in which he is involved,» but a majority feel the activities are just unethical and not illegal, a new poll shows.
Mr. Park was arraigned (Tuesday) afternoon before Judge William F. Ames of the Cortland County Court on 8 felony counts of Falsifying Business Records and Filing False Unemployment Insurance Contribution Returns with the State and 7 misdemeanor counts including Endangering the Welfare of a Child, Illegal Hours of Work for Minors, Prohibited Employment of Minors, and the Willful Failure to Pay Unemployment Insurance Contributions.
More likely, the company was a vehicle for secretly funneling massive, under - the - table, in - kind illegal contributions to its candidates; only under the pressure of a lawsuit did the WFP last month agree to a measure of reform.
During earlier testimony, Lacewell said it is not illegal in New York for companies who do business with the state to make campaign contributions.
Mr. Park was arraigned before Judge William J. Foley in Homer Town Court on 8 felony counts of Falsifying Business Records and Filing False Unemployment Insurance Contribution Returns with the State and 7 misdemeanor counts including Endangering the Welfare of a Child, Illegal Hours of Work for Minors, Prohibited Employment of Minors, and the Willful Failure to Pay Unemployment Insurance Contributions.
Evidence and testimony showed how some lawmakers can wield their considerable power to extort benefits for themselves or others; how the weak enforcement of lax financial disclosure requirements gives legislators ample opportunity to mask illegal payments as outside income; how moneyed real estate interests spend millions of dollars in campaign contributions to influence legislation; and how power is concentrated in the hands of the so - called three men in a room: the legislative leaders and the governor.
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.»
Given the tremendous economic contribution by upwards of one million illegal Burmese migrants to the Thai economy — which was reported in 2007 to total roughly US $ 53 million (3) per year — forcing refugees into dependence is a waste of human productivity not to mention a denigration of human rights and social well being for the population.
While it's illegal to solicit campaign contributions from Los Angeles city employees, it is perfectly legal for employees to give on their own accord,...
AFT's dark (and illegal) money groups got dinged to the tune of $ 30,000 for «failure to organize as a PAC, failure to disclose finance activity accurately, contributions made in a manner intended to disguise the true source of the contributions, receipt of contributions not raised in accordance with campaign law, and use of wire transfers.»
If there were a move to make unions illegal, for example, political contributions would come fast and furious, though virtually none of that money could be attributed to a stance on something as specific as tenure or teacher evaluations per se, even though those are issues unions would clearly also like to influence.
Jennifer Fearing is a regular dog walker for Sutter, the governor's corgi, and gun rights groups are saying the free service she provides — on top of giving the lobbyist undue influence — may amount to an illegal contribution.
Although few were willing to speak on record then, many agreed that the only reason Belo Monte was built was because the PT government needed a big construction project by which the political party could pay back the big construction companies, like Odebrecht, for the huge sums in illegal electoral campaign contributions the firms had provided.