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Murphy has introduced a new bill that would expand penalties for illegal contributions from one year to seven years in jail.

The complaint also accuses the Tillis campaign and the state GOP of receiving illegal contributions from a super PAC led by John Bolton — now Trump's national security adviser — that also used Cambridge Analytica in pro-Tillis campaign activity.

Not exact matches

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 whether the campaign contributions are coming from a pharmaceutical company or a prison guard union, he said, keeping marijuana illegal often boosts donors» bottom lines — and ensures that nonviolent users and suppliers will keep ending up behind bars.

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 its complaints, the group said a $ 150,000 payment in August 2016 from the parent company of the National Enquirer to Karen McDougal was intended to «buy and bury» the story of her affair with Trump and amounted to an illegal, in - kind contribution to Trump's presidential campaign.

If Cohen made that payment from his own funds and without Trump's knowledge, it could be considered an illegal 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.

Rep. Yvette Clarke will donate $ 2,000 in campaign funds to charity to offset a contribution from Singh, who claims Blasio encouraged him to secretly funnel illegal donations to Clarke's campaign, a spokeswoman said.

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.

Former Staten Island Rep. Michael Grimm's campaign was hit with a FEC complaint that claims the candidate received an illegal in - kind contribution by getting free services from Michael Caputo, Grimm's Buffalo - based communications strategist.

In a case that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee played up during the 2012 election, the ethics committee in July began a review of whether Grimm violated campaign - finance laws by seeking and accepting illegal contributions, created false reports and improperly sought assistance from a foreign national.

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.

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.

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.

'' — $ 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.

A borough Republican suggested that the Romney campaign was looking to distance itself from Grimm, who has been accused of taking illegal campaign contributions.

Dinesh D'Souza, the conservative pundit, author and filmmaker, pleaded guilty Tuesday morning to using straw donors to make an illegal contribution to a Republican Senate candidate from New York in 2012.

The FBI is now investigating claims from some of Pinto's followers that their contributions to Grimm's campaign were illegal, the Associated Press reported.

NU is on the SEEC's list of state contractors whose executives are banned from contributing to state election campaigns, the SEEC said, and a number of the NU executives» contributions would have been illegal if sent directly to the party's state account.

But such spending made with the cooperation of a campaign is illegal because candidates are barred from accepting contributions from corporations under city law.

While subtle, the change reflects the extent to which Liu has managed — at least temporarily — to step out from the shadow of the arrests of Oliver Pan, a top fundraiser, and Jenny Hou, his campaign treasurer, on allegations that they helped use straw donors to channel illegal contributions far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign.

There also appears to be illegal in - kind corporate contributions from Achievement First, Inc., the charter school management company that runs Achievement First Bridgeport.

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,...