Sentences with phrase «of federal campaign finance law»

Councilmember Corey Johnson took Transition and Inauguration contributions from a hotel magnate who pled guilty yesterday to violations of federal campaign finance law.

This could also be an effort by Trump and Cohen to avoid prosecution for knowing and willful violation of federal campaign finance law.

Attorney Reid Weingarten was understandably disappointed in the jury verdict earlier this month that found his client, former Gov. John G. Rowland, guilty of several offenses including violation of federal campaign financing laws.

«If, as alleged, the defendant directed others to make contributions to a Senate campaign and reimbursed them, that is a serious violation of federal campaign finance laws.»

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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.

The good news for Cohen is that Trump could pardon him for violating federal campaign finance or banking laws, a step that would keep him out of the crosshairs of New York state prosecutors as well.

In a complaint filed in January by Common Cause with the FEC and the Department of Justice, the organization charges that the failure to report this expenditure to the FEC violates not only campaign finance law but also violates federal law prohibiting false statements of material fact to the Federal govefederal law prohibiting false statements of material fact to the Federal goveFederal government.

Under federal campaign finance law, any expenditures by a candidate or someone working on behalf of a candidate must be reported to the Federal Election Commissionfederal campaign finance law, any expenditures by a candidate or someone working on behalf of a candidate must be reported to the Federal Election CommissionFederal Election Commission (FEC).

The payment has prompted complaints to the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission over potential violations of campaign finance law.

In the Cohen case, it appears that he's currently under investigation for violations of federal law — specifically, bank fraud, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations.

Under federal campaign finance law, any «expenditures» by a candidate or agent of a candidate or in coordination with a candidate must be reported by the candidate's committee to the FEC.

Federal campaign finance law defines «expenditures» as any funds spent «for the purpose of influencing» federal eleFederal campaign finance law defines «expenditures» as any funds spent «for the purpose of influencing» federal elefederal elections.

As Common Cause alleged in its January complaints filed with the FEC and DOJ, the Trump campaign's failure to report this expenditure to the FEC would not only violate the campaign finance law disclosure requirements, 52 U.S.C. 30104, but would also violate the federal law prohibiting false statements of material fact to the federal government, 18 U.S.C. 1001.

Because of its relationship to the Mercers, who provided millions in funding, it may have violated federal campaign finance law as well.

Because of campaign - finance laws, there are restrictions for transferring money from a state race to a campaign for federal office.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Illinois» 13th.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Texas» 23rd.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd, 2012 focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for New York's 18th.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Minnesota's 8th.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Florida's 18th.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. joined the ongoing federal investigation into de Blasio's fundraising tactics last January after the Board of Elections» chief investigative officer sent a «criminal referral» to Vance's office alleging the efforts of the mayor's nonprofit to unseat the Republicans violated campaign finance laws, Vance has said.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for California's 36th.

And Nixon's pledge to refuse corporate donations doesn't actually mean as much in New York as it does on the federal level, because of New York's lax campaign finance laws, said Alex Camarda, senior policy adviser at Reinvent Albany.

In addition to a federal investigation into whether Campaign for One New York donors, many of whom had business before the city, received anything for their donation, authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 violated campaign finance and electiCampaign for One New York donors, many of whom had business before the city, received anything for their donation, authorities are also examining whether de Blasio's unsuccessful bid to bring the state Senate under Democratic control in 2014 violated campaign finance and electicampaign finance and election laws.

In May, two Liu campaign staffers were convicted in Manhattan Federal Court of attempted wire fraud after an undercover FBI operation caught them trying to skirt campaign finance laws.

There's three weeks to go in the legislative session, and advocates are pushing hard for two of Gov. Andrew Cuomo's agenda items — translating the federal abortion rights in the Roe v. Wade decision into New York state law, and enacting public financing of statewide political campaigns.

Federal authorities and the Manhattan district attorney's office are looking into whether de Blasio's solicitation of Catsimatidis and other donors violated campaign - finance laws.

Then they learned that the owner of the toxic lot and the developer who wants to put a 20 - story nursing home there were represented by Kramer Levin, the same law firm that's now representing the mayor in a growing federal probe over possible campaign financing violations.

Federal law enforcement authorities are collecting information from the State Elections Enforcement Commission in their newly launched criminal grand jury investigation of whether Gov. Dannel P. Malloy's 2014 re-election campaign was financed illegally by the state Democratic Party.

«We have always been confident that there was no wrongdoing in the way in which the Connecticut Democratic State Central Committee operated during the 2014 elections and that we complied fully with both the letter and the spirit of state and federal campaign finance laws,» Connecticut Democratic Party Executive Director Michael Mandell said in a statement.

The court's conservative majority gave a skeptical reception to one of the least known features of campaign - finance law: caps the federal government imposes on the total amount of money any individual donor can give to federal candidates, national political party committees and federal political action committees.

Upset that he couldn't donate more than the federal limit of $ 46,200 to individual candidates, he teamed up with Senator Mitch McConnell at a CPAC conference in 2012 to launch the latest assault on campaign finance law.

Opponents of campaign - finance laws hope that the case argued Tuesday — McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission — will carry on the work the justices did in Citizens United in 2010, when they struck down as unconstitutional a ban on corporations making independent expenditures in elections.

Conservative author Dinesh D'Souza was indicted Thursday on federal charges of violating campaign finance laws by using straw donors to funnel money to a U.S. Senate candidate.

Pan and Liu's ex-campaign treasurer, Jia «Jenny» Hou, are facing federal charges of conspiring to break campaign finance laws for circumventing the $ 4,950 contribution limit.

Using the Federal Election Commission's October Quarterly campaign finance filings, the Brennan Center for Justice at The New York University School of Law published a report on October 22nd focusing on the 25 House races rated most competitive by The Cook Political Report, including the race for Arizona's 1st.

A government ethics watchdog Tuesday filed a complaint with the Federal Elections Commission after audio from a secretly recorded conversation implied the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee tipped the scales in favor of their preferred candidate, and may have violated campaign finance laws in the Campaign Committee tipped the scales in favor of their preferred candidate, and may have violated campaign finance laws in the campaign finance laws in the process.

In exchange for their tax - exempt status, federal law bars 501 (c)(3) organizations from engaging in political activity, and some are calling on Schneiderman to investigate why Families for Excellent Schools made a multimillion - dollar contribution, now that the Massachusetts Office of Campaign and Political Finance has acted.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard McCutcheon vs. Federal Election Commission, which may become as much a chapter of the history of climate change as it is a case about campaign finance law.

In his criminal litigation practice, he has successfully represented clients involved in high - profile matters such as the U.S. Secret Service prostitution scandal, a federal fraud investigation involving environmental law violations, campaign finance irregularities in the 2010 District of Columbia elections, a CEO involved in a federal public corruption investigation in Michigan, and a company accused of mortgage and credit card fraud.

It concluded that expenses relating to blogging «for the purpose of influencing a Federal election» are not subject to the campaign finance law.

Attorneys in Perkins Coie's Political Law practice will provide insight and guidance on legal developments involving campaign finance, lobbying, the Federal Election Commission, and other topics of interest to those active in the political process.»

He had many notable successes — in the Court's recent series of decisions related to the war on terror; in limiting federal preemption of state law (Wyeth v. Levine); upholding federal campaign finance laws (McConnell v. FEC); and in the environmental area (Massachusetts v. EPA).

(2) Does federal campaign finance law even apply to this type of promotional ad for a movie about a candidate?

Fred Wertheimer, president of Democracy 21, a Washington, D.C. - based interest group dedicated to campaign finance reform, said in a press release that the court is threatening to «take a radical step» that would undermine a century of law limiting corporate involvement in federal elections.

«Net Neutrality» is not an issue of first impression: there are several decades» worth of federal statutes, legislative history, and administrative and regulatory laws, federal court opinions, federal - state preemption issues, and Congressional, political, and campaign finance issues to comprehend — and a rich and long scholarly (and non-scholarly) bibliography to peruse.

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NAR Government Affairs says: The new campaign finance reform law, which takes effect after the 2002 elections, will continue to allow individuals (and PACs) to fund a print or broadcast «electioneering communication» that refers to a federal candidate within 60 days of a general election or within 30 days of a primary election or convention.