As a result of a loophole built into Connecticut
lobbying disclosure laws, A Better Connecticut does not have to reveal from where it raised its millions.
A government watchdog group, Public Citizen, said on Wednesday it will ask lawmakers to investigate whether billionaire investor Carl Icahn should have been subject to
lobbying disclosure laws when he...
They could also have broader implications for New York's
lobbying disclosure laws, as Pledge 2 Protect apparently found a loophole around requirements that lobbying groups spending more than $ 50,000 a year disclose the source of donations over $ 5,000.
On Friday, Gonsalves (R - East Meadow) and a spokesman for County Executive Edward Mangano said that the pair are developing
a lobbying disclosure law.
Not exact matches
Some of NYPIRG's donors are unknown because of a sudden shift in the group's
lobbying spending in 2012 as a new
disclosure law came into being — timing that Horner said is a coincidence.
Since the
disclosure law took effect in 2012, however, NYPIRG's
lobbying spending through the 501 (c) 4 has dipped considerably.
After the case became public, Mangano, a Republican, issued executive orders, later passed into
law by the county legislature, that established the lobbyist registry and required
lobbying disclosure with each contract given to lawmakers.
Only certain areas — information on
lobbying activity, fines and penalties, and the
disclosure reports «filed pursuant to section seventy - three - a of the public officers
law» — are subject to New York's transparency
laws.
Grandeau, now a private
lobbying compliance lawyer and a frequent JCOPE critic, said his conversation with Agata took place at an Albany deli next to JCOPE's offices not long after the nonprofit
disclosure law passed in June 2016.
-- State
lobbying laws requiring
disclosure by firms and officials would be extended to municipalities with a population greater than 5,000.
Mr. Feerick, who is dean of the Fordham
Law School, also lobbied for an ethics law for local government officials primarily aimed at conflicts of interest in land development and governmental purchases and a separate state agency to enforce the disclosure provisions of state election l
Law School, also
lobbied for an ethics
law for local government officials primarily aimed at conflicts of interest in land development and governmental purchases and a separate state agency to enforce the disclosure provisions of state election l
law for local government officials primarily aimed at conflicts of interest in land development and governmental purchases and a separate state agency to enforce the
disclosure provisions of state election
lawlaw.
A
law approved in 2011 aimed at requiring more
disclosure for state officials who earn outside income from
lobbying entities to appears to be rarely enforced by state ethics regulators.
That
law also required public
disclosure of the amount of money — within a narrow category — that officials receive from outside employment and investments, and mandated that some
lobbying groups list the donors that fuel their advocacy campaigns.
readers now know that despite the plethora of Connecticut
laws requiring honest and public
disclosure when it comes to
lobbying state officials, Michelle Rhee's StudentsFirst organization failed to file any of the appropriate Connecticut forms or reports despite spending over $ 352,000
lobbying in Connecticut during February and March of this year.
«If you pay twice the amount of the minimum, that repayment period gets cut in half,» says Ed Mierzwinski, who
lobbied for
laws requiring these
disclosures as the consumer program director of the U.S. Public Interest Research Group, a federation of nonprofits.
A
disclosure form filed by lobbyist William J. Coyne, Jr., shows that Coyne took «oppose» positions on both carbon tax bills on behalf of his «client» ExxonMobil (see here for an overview of Massachusetts
lobbying law).
«Posts on campaign finance, election,
lobbying disclosure, congressional ethics, and other political
law topics.»
However, the real estate industry has firmly resisted disruption, successfully
lobbying for state
laws banning commission rebates, preventing the public
disclosure of residential sales prices, and requiring consumers to purchase real estate services that they may not want, as well as blocking third parties from accessing listing data.