Sentences with phrase «in campaign contributions in»

He still collected over a million dollars in campaign contributions in 2014 - 2015, and spent all but a fraction of it on donations to party committees and other candidates.

The report showed that Kellner hadn't raised any money in campaign contributions in the preceding months and had a balance of only $ 92.26 remaining in his account.

Gray has received roughly a half - million dollars in campaign contributions in the last two weeks of the campaign, including late contributions from big business and big labor.

Not exact matches

A federal jury acquitted him in 2012 of accepting illegal political contributions and deadlocked on five other campaign finance charges, allowing him to retain his law license.

That marked a break from the Conservative pledge under former Prime Minister David Cameron in a 2015 election campaign not to raise income tax, national insurance contributions or VAT.

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.

More recently, de Gaulle was involved in France's contribution to the air campaign against ISIS in Iraq and Syria, codenamed Opération Chammal in France.

Chevron gave $ 1 million in 2013, according to OpenSecrets, a website that compiles federal campaign contributions and lobbying data.

Contributions from Bank One Corp. and Northwestern Mutual were a large part of the $ 60,000 political action committees and bank employees donated to Ryan's first reelection campaign in 2000.

While Facebook (FB) and Intel (INTC) employees also participated in campaign donations, their contributions were substantially less.

Schultz was on the President's mind because the business icon had suddenly become a political activist, announcing that because he was disgusted with Washington's dysfunction, he would cease making campaign contributions to incumbents in either party.

But, as we all know, the former Cabinet secretary pulled out of the race in October, citing an inability to amass campaign contributions.

Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction.

In addition to restoring Glass - Steagall, Celente says Congress needs to stop favoring special interest groups that make campaign contributions.

Mr. Cohen said that he had given a similar statement to the Federal Election Commission in response to a complaint filed by the government watchdog group Common Cause, which contended that the payment, made through a limited liability company that Mr. Cohen established, was an in - kind contribution to the Trump campaign.

And in the political sphere, finance has become the great defender of deregulating monopolies and «freeing» land rent and asset - price gains from taxation, translating its economic power and campaign contributions into the political power to capture control of public financial regulation.

In its interactions with the government, the financial sector buys bonds (and also makes campaign contributions).

United States officials had been shaken by tape recordings in which people identified as leaders of the Cali cartel were heard discussing contributions of millions of dollars to Mr. Samper's presidential campaign.

«The complaint alleges that I somehow violated campaign finance laws by facilitating an excess, in - kind contribution,» Mr. Cohen said in his statement.

«If this is true then it looks like Cohen may have made an unreported loan to the campaign rather than a contribution,» said Richard L. Hasen, an expert in election law at the University of California, Irvine.

Common Cause, the left - leaning watchdog group, strongly believes that the McDougal payment was not a legitimate press function, and has filed a Federal Election Commission complaint against both Trump and American Media Inc. over the payment, calling it «an illegal corporate in - kind contribution to the 2016 Trump campaign.»

«Any payment by a person such as Cohen on behalf of or in consultation with a candidate to influence an election is an in - kind «contribution'to the candidate under campaign finance law subject to a $ 2,700 limit and disclosure requirements,» he said.

Watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission arguing that the settlement amounted to an unreported in - kind contribution to the Trump campaign.

Common Cause argues that the payment amounted to an undeclared in - kind contribution to Mr. Trump's presidential campaign.

«The complaint alleges that I somehow violated campaign finance laws by facilitating an excess, in - kind contribution,» he said.

In first quarter of 2018, 61 percent of the direct contributions to his campaign committee came from donations of $ 200 or less.

If the $ 130,000 payment was meant to help Trump win the election (something Cohen denies), it could count as a campaign contribution that was well in excess of federal limits.

The Argentinian National Electoral Chamber (CNE), which is in charge of overseeing the elections and auditing campaign contributions and expenses, initiated an «internal investigation» following the scandal revealed by British TV Channel 4.

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.

These include activities considered intervention under the Internal Revenue Code in any political campaign, such as direct and indirect political contributions to candidates, political parties, or political organizations; independent expenditures; or electioneering communications on behalf of federal, state, or local candidates.

Dogwood's criticism of B.C.'s lax donation system began in 2001 with the group's advocacy for public disclosure of campaign contributions.

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.

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 circumstances and context here are suspicious, but it is not entirely clear that Cohen's hush payment in fact constitutes a campaign finance contribution.

He needs to sell this story so that Mr. Cohen's payment was not a campaign contribution (more about that below) and that Mr. Trump didn't really know about the arrangement in advance, and so has minimal responsibility for what is turning out to be a colossal mess with Stormy Daniels.

Disclose Company's Own Political Spending If a company chooses to use its own funds for direct campaign spending, the issue raised in many shareholder proposals is whether such corporations should — in addition to the governance procedures noted above — issue a comprehensive report which lists in one place all the recipients both of such direct spending and of contributions made from the company's employee PAC.

January 22, 2018: The campaign finance and anti-corruption watchdog group Common Cause filed complaints with the Federal Election Commission and Department of Justice asking them to «determine whether the payment was made by the Trump Organization or some other corporation or individual, which would additionally make it an illegal in - kind contribution to the campaign.»

This explanation would, in theory, head off allegations that the $ 130,000 amounted to an illegal contribution to Trump's campaign.

«Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction,» Mr. Trump wrote.

Her campaign raised $ 52 million while his brought in $ 37 million for the month, including a $ 2 million contribution from Trump himself.

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 campaigIn 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 campaigin 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 campaigin - kind contribution to Trump's presidential campaign.

«The complaint alleges that I somehow violated campaign finance laws by facilitating an excess, in - kind contribution,» Cohen told The Times.

In a pair of federal complaints, Common Cause, a nonprofit government watchdog group, argued that the settlement amounted to an unreported in - kind contribution to Trump's campaigIn a pair of federal complaints, Common Cause, a nonprofit government watchdog group, argued that the settlement amounted to an unreported in - kind contribution to Trump's campaigin - kind contribution to Trump's campaign.

The payment was made in coordination with the Trump campaign and constituted an illegal and unreported in - kind campaign contribution, according to the two complaints.

At least two complaints to the Federal Election Commission allege that the money was meant to influence the presidential election and therefore amounted to an illegal in - kind contribution to the Trump campaign.

Campaign contribution limits in effect during the 2016 election capped direct donations to candidates at $ 2,700 for a primary or general election.

The government watchdog group Common Cause has argued that the payment was made to influence the 2016 presidential election and therefore it was an illegal in - kind contribution to Mr Trump's campaign that was never publicly disclosed.

We are all aware of the lobbying system in the U.S. and the persuasive power of campaign contributions, for example, and we can surmise that similar incentives exist in Europe.

«Money from the campaign, or campaign contributions, played no roll in this transaction,» Trump wrote.

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