Sentences with phrase «illegal campaign contributions»

A former college president and conservative filmmaker has pleaded guilty to one count of making illegal campaign contributions in a federal election.

The contribution to Fertel is just one of what may have been a series of illegal campaign contributions by Kettner to Democrats while a judicial candidate and after she was sworn in as a judge on January 1, 2011.

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.

And wasn't it the Clinton machine that mired itself in the biggest foreign fundraising scandal in recent memory when it initially took illegal campaign contributions through James Riady's Indonesian connection?

The contribution to Barry Fertel is just one of what may be a series of illegal campaign contributions by Kettner to Democrats since she was sworn in as a judge on January 1, 2011.

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.

The father of California Democratic Rep. Ami Bera pleaded guilty on Tuesday to making more than $ 250,000 in illegal campaign contributions during the 2010 and 2012 election cycles.

But critics of the president have claimed that they amount to illegal campaign contributions because they helped Mr. Trump win the White House by suppressing politically damaging stories.

Guy Molinari, a former Staten Island borough president and congressman, raged against federal judges after Diana Durand, a woman who pleaded guilty to funneling illegal campaign contributions to Mr. Grimm, was sentenced to three months in prison yesterday.

«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.

Washington (CNN)- The founder and head of a now - defunct lobbying firm accused of providing illegal campaign contributions to members of Congress was arrested by FBI agents and charged Thursday.

making illegal campaign contributions as the head of a Private College where very few students actually graduated, yet they were enticed to enroll and take out huge student loans with promises of high paying jobs in the Medical Field!

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.

Federal prosecutors failed in their effort to convict former North Carolina senator and Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards of accepting illegal campaign contributions for payments made to a woman with whom he had an extramarital affair and fathered a child.

The state Board of Elections has declined to investigate Onondaga County Republican Chairman Tom Dadey's allegation that Democratic Mayor Stephanie Miner made illegal campaign contributions to local political candidates in the 2011 elections.

He was found guilty in September 2005 of intentionally soliciting illegal campaign contributions, In December 2005, he was convicted for stealing $ 5,000 donated to his reelection campaign.

'' — $ 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.»

A jury reportedly found Edwards not guilty on count three for taking illegal campaign contributions, but it was deadlocked on every other count.

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.

Talk of the Sound has previously documented what may be three illegal campaign contributions by Susan Kettner made after Kettner was sworn in as New Rochelle City Judge on January 1, 2011.

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.

There were the illegal campaign contributions to President Richard Nixon.

That has stirred accusations that Cohen's payment to the porn actress amounted to an illegal campaign contribution.

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.

In April, FBI investigators raided Cohen's office and residence, looking for, among other things, documents related to the Daniels payment, which could constitute an illegal campaign contribution.

If he never did this kind of thing before, it would be more difficult to believe it wasn't aimed at the election — and that it didn't amount to an illegal campaign contribution.

More dangerously, the awkward theory of «reimbursement» via retainer fees over time does not solve the problem of an illegal campaign contribution in 2016.

The most generous read of Wednesday night's showpiece is that Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Trump have made a calculated decision that Mr. Cohen faces real legal peril for having given an illegal campaign contribution in the form of the Stormy Daniels payment, and that Mr. Trump might be subject to co-conspirator liability.

Further, depending on the source of the $ 130,000 paid to Clifford, Mr. Trump and his campaign may have received an illegal campaign contribution.

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.

Critics of the president have claimed that payments to Karen McDougal, left, and Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, amount to illegal campaign 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.»

In June, Brazil's Superior Electoral Court will determine if the Dilma Rousseff - Michel Temer presidential ticket of 2014 benefited from illegal campaign contributions.

Last week Zellner held a press conference to accuse Pigeon and his PAC of making «illegal campaign contributions.»

Christie prosecuted Kushner's father, Charles Kushner, as U.S. Attorney in 2005 for making illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tampering which included Kushner videotaping a relative with a prostitute.

Over the next months, the former speaker of the state Assembly, former leader of the state Senate, the former president of the State University of New York's newest college campus and a longtime and influential political operative in Western New York will stand accused of wrongdoing ranging from bribery to extortion to fraud to illegal campaign contributions to rigged bids.

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.

Singh said in testimony last month that, when he told de Blasio he would have to set up illegal campaign contributions, the mayor told him to «do whatever you got to do.»

UPPER WEST SIDE — Attorney General candidate Dan Donovan admitted Friday to accepting illegal campaign contributions and vowed to give the money back during one of the first major debates of the general election.

A major donor to Mayor Bill de Blasio testified on Thursday that the politician turned a blind eye when he told him he would need to set up illegal campaign 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.

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.

In March, the Foleys each pleaded guilty to conspiring to make illegal campaign contributions, a misdemeanor.

Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative author and pundit who pleaded guilty to using straw donors to make an illegal campaign contribution, got five years probation and no jail time.

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.