Sentences with phrase «of illegal campaign contributions»

Charles Kushner, Jared and Nicole's father, was convicted of illegal campaign contributions, tax evasion and witness tempering in 2005.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.»

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.

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.

... In 1988, Lowey ousted DioGuardi after a report that Joseph Crabtree, the head of DioGuardi's campaign finance committee, had funneled more than $ 50,000 in illegal contributions to the campaign through his numerous auto dealerships.

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.

In Buffalo federal court, G. Steven Pigeon will have a preliminary hearing on June 15 to evaluate the government's evidence that he solicited an illegal contribution to the 2014 re-election campaign of Gov. Andrew Cuomo.

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.

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 nCampaign 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 ncampaign - 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.

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

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.

One of Liu's top fundraisers, Oliver Pan, has also been indicted for allegedly funneling $ 16,000 in illegal contributions to the once - rising star's campaign.

Jenny Hou is accused of helping Liu's campaign skirt campaign finance laws by allegedly using straw donors to channel illegal contributions far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign coffers.

Pigeon, accused of soliciting an illegal contribution to the 2014 re-election campaign of Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo, did not appear in court but has said publicly that he's the victim of a political witch hunt.

The week began with the leak of a confidential report by the state's elections enforcer that alleged that New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio had engaged in an illegal effort to circumvent campaign contribution limits in his 2014 push to bolster the re-election prospects of some sitting state Senate Democrats, who presumably would be more favorable to the democrat mayor's city agenda in Albany.

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.

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.

Among those Facebook friends are Westchester County Clerk Tim Idoni, New Rochelle Council Member Jared Rice, New Rochelle Council Member Ivar Hyden, Former Yonkers City Council President Chuck Lesnick, Meredith Adler Hilton (New Rochelle Council Member Barry Fertel's Campaign Treasurer who Kettner asked to return her illegal campaign contribution), Yonkers City Court Judge Ed Gaffney, Former Latimer Senate Campaign Volunteer Suzanne Queener Arena, Former Employee of the City Court of New Rochelle Victoria Kane, Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court Fran Connolly, David McKay Wilson of the Journal News, and Shoreline Publications owned by Howard Sturman and hundreCampaign Treasurer who Kettner asked to return her illegal campaign contribution), Yonkers City Court Judge Ed Gaffney, Former Latimer Senate Campaign Volunteer Suzanne Queener Arena, Former Employee of the City Court of New Rochelle Victoria Kane, Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court Fran Connolly, David McKay Wilson of the Journal News, and Shoreline Publications owned by Howard Sturman and hundrecampaign contribution), Yonkers City Court Judge Ed Gaffney, Former Latimer Senate Campaign Volunteer Suzanne Queener Arena, Former Employee of the City Court of New Rochelle Victoria Kane, Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court Fran Connolly, David McKay Wilson of the Journal News, and Shoreline Publications owned by Howard Sturman and hundreCampaign Volunteer Suzanne Queener Arena, Former Employee of the City Court of New Rochelle Victoria Kane, Associate Justice of the Appellate Division of the New York State Supreme Court Fran Connolly, David McKay Wilson of the Journal News, and Shoreline Publications owned by Howard Sturman and hundreds more.

A federal judge on Tuesday sentenced Dinesh D'Souza to five years of probation, including eight months in a community confinement center, ordering no jail time for the conservative author and pundit who pleaded guilty to using straw donors to make an illegal campaign contribution.

Hou and Pan are accused of using straw donors to funnel illegal contributions that are far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign chest.

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

When will Professor B. H. Obama be held accountable for accepting illegal campaign contributions — in the tens of millions?

The board fined the campaign for multiple transgressions, including: inaccurate or nonexistent disclosure of monies; accepting a myriad of illegal contributions; expenditures «not permissible or election related»; and comingling funds.

Liu's campaign has been floundering since the arrest of the 25 - year - old campaign treasurer in February on allegations that she helped use straw donors to channel illegal contributions far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign coffers.

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.

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.

«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.

But Sugarman did say in her memo that there's evidence that some of the same illegal funneling of campaign contributions could have occurred in western New York, in Senate races in the Rochester and Buffalo areas.

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.

Evidence and testimony showed how some lawmakers can wield their considerable power to extort benefits for themselves or others; how the weak enforcement of lax financial disclosure requirements gives legislators ample opportunity to mask illegal payments as outside income; how moneyed real estate interests spend millions of dollars in campaign contributions to influence legislation; and how power is concentrated in the hands of the so - called three men in a room: the legislative leaders and the governor.

SYRACUSE, N.Y. - 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.

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

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.

Kettner has already confirmed that one of the three was an illegal campaign contribution but has yet to explain the other two.

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.

AFT's dark (and illegal) money groups got dinged to the tune of $ 30,000 for «failure to organize as a PAC, failure to disclose finance activity accurately, contributions made in a manner intended to disguise the true source of the contributions, receipt of contributions not raised in accordance with campaign law, and use of wire transfers.»

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!

Specifically, Buchanan noted Maggio's illegal solicitation and acceptance of campaign contributions in violation of state law.