Sentences with phrase «of on the campaign finance»

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A federal jury found Edwards not guilty on one count of violating campaign finance rule, and the judge declared a mistrial on the five remaining criminal charges.

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.

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While on the campaign trail in 2015 at the age of 44, the presidential candidate spoke at Liberty University and alluded to his experience of having to finance his education: I, Cruz said, «took over $ 100,000 in school loans, loans I suspect a lot of y» all can relate to, loans that I'll point out I just paid off a few years ago.»

Viral hoaxes on Facebook during the 2016 presidential election reveal the limits of campaign finance laws and regulations.

Supporters in the five states set to vote on recreational marijuana had a war chest of $ 30 million as of Oct. 20, compared to just $ 6.6 million for their rivals, according to campaign finance data collected by the nonpartisan site Ballotpedia.

While the candidates currently hold some very similar positions on issues such as immigration reform, gay rights, gun control and campaign finance reform, Sanders has been able to stake out positions to the left of Clinton on other issues that excite some vocal voters.

But political strategists and privacy advocates agreed that Mercer's parallel funding channels, combined with concerns over the surreptitious, commodified Facebook data — reported here for the first time — represented an intensified collision of billionaire financing and digital targeting on the campaign trail.

The FBI conducted the search because of concerns that the money may have violated campaign finance law, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

«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.

On Wednesday, Giuliani said Trump was aware of the payment arrangement and that it did not constitute a campaign finance violation.

The FBI raided the office and hotel room of President Donald Trump's personal lawyer on Monday as part of a fraud and campaign finance investigation.

The launch of the Barbara Corcoran marketing campaign follows a busy summer for OnDeck, which unveiled a new brand identity with the enhanced www.ondeck.com, featuring a deep focus on personalized customer service for small businesses seeking financing.

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 Commission (FEC).

He suggested that there would be a violation of campaign finance laws if Trump and Cohen structured the payment «in a way to avoid detection or in an effort to make it appear to be something that it was not, namely, a retainer payment as opposed to $ 130,000 reimbursement, that may involve money laundering depending on how it was handled.»

He said they were all on payroll as of Aug. 1, meaning they won't show up in campaign finance reports until Sept. 20.

The growing legal questions around Mr Cohen's services for Mr Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand - jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

Newly minted Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras campaigned on the promise of seeking a write - down on the country's debt, a «haircut» so to speak, which many European finance and government officials have dismissed as out of the question.

Aides do point to Carson's experience on corporate boards (which he says he will resign from now that he's running for president) and the business experience of members of his inner circle, such as Jeff Reeter, Carson's national finance chairman, a managing partner at Northwestern Mutual, as guideposts for his philosophy: the campaign's economic policy will be business - friendly.

He has served on the boards of many not - for - profit organizations, with his roles having included Chair, Finance Chair, Capital Campaign Chair, and Executive Search Chair.

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.

Presidents of both U.S. parties rely on Wall Street for major political campaign contributions, as do heads of the key Senate and Congressional banking and finance committees.

The growing legal questions around Cohen's services for Trump come as the lawyer faces a grand jury investigation being led by federal prosecutors in New York City who are exploring bank fraud, wire fraud or campaign finance charges, according to people familiar with the matter who, like others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss an ongoing investigation.

«That removes the campaign finance violation, and we have all the documentary proof for it,» Mr. Giuliani said, explaining that the president and his other lawyers were well aware of what Mr. Giuliani intended to say on the program.

The campaign finance watchdog group Common Cause has argued that the hush money payment was made in service of Trump's presidential campaign because it bought silence on a controversy that could have hurt his prospects.

Our President is famous for his concern about the ethics of campaign finance and professes to share with the Occupiers a concern with the influence of corporations on our political life.

Ever since 2002, most of those organizations have insisted that support for campaign - finance restrictions — particularly of the McCain - Feingold sort — is a black mark on a politician's pro-life record (on the grounds that pro-life advertising would be unfairly limited during campaign seasons).

Much of the book is taken up with lengthy discussions of the details of the four plans — health, education, wages and campaign finance — and briefer breakdowns on financing.

An increasing number of news stories are centered on issues rather than personalities; for one thing, there seems to be a shift in the public's attention from personal scandal to issues of campaign financing and contributions.

In the Coffs region, the owners of Nana Glen Synchronicity Farm, Josh and Tomoko Allen, recently launched a pozible campaign, seeking to raise $ 30,000 to finance a «gourmet food hub» based on their property.

Last year Robert F. Kennedy came to town on behalf of his campaigning brother, inspected what Clark had wrought, and called Philadelphia's Democratic organization «the best financed and best directed in the country.»

Cuomo ultimately did make some final Hail Mary passes on ethics: A «menu» of options for closing the LLC loophole in campaign finance law and a plan to curb coordination between campaigns and independent expenditure committees.

In particular, the legislation would set out the date of the referendum, the franchise, the wording of the question, rules on campaign financing, and other rules for the conduct of the referendum.

As you'll recall, two Super PACs pushing to reduce the power of money in politics by establishing a public campaign finance system (ironically) spent big money on her behalf — $ 500,000 to be exact.

Democratic Senate hopeful Barbara Fiala on Friday reported having $ 72,161 in cash on hand for her bid to flip a district long held by Republicans in the Southern Tier, a campaign finance filing with the Board of Elections shows.

Cantor and Scharff went on to note that two other Democrats who support public campaign financing — Sen. Ted O'Brien, of Rochester; and Sen. Terry Gipson, of Rhinebeck — won their respective races in November.

The commitments come after DiNapoli, along with the Council of Institutional Investors, called on companies to increase their transparency as to how they finance political and issue campaigns.

The event has drawn the ire of campaign finance reform advocates, who have dubbed Grisanti an «enemy of reform» (props to the late Ed Koch are necessary here) for refusing to break with his fellow Republicans in their collective «no» vote on the hostile amendment offered by the Democrats that would have created a public campaign finance system.

Also on the NYC Indy Party reform to - do list: Initiative and referendum, term limits for legislators, letting voters change their enrollment after a one - month waiting period, nonpartisan administration of the Board of Elections, nonpartisan redistricting and campaign finance reform.

Cuomo highlighted the issue in his campaign policy book on government reform, wrting, «Like New York City, New York State needs a system of public campaign financing to set limits on campaign spending and to increase participation by qualified candidates who lack the means or the connections to raise significant campaign funds.»

Since I sent the above memo, Jonathan Soros, who founded Friends of Democracy — one of the two PACs that spent big money on Tkaczyk's behalf to push campaign finance reform - released the following statement:

The President was however silent on the fate of this levy which perhaps gives credence to indications by the Finance Minister that the levy will be maintained contrary to their campaign promise.

Wow, here's a sign that online political fundraising has gone full - on mainstream: Democratic campaign finance website ActBlue announced today that it's reached the impressive total of 1,000,000 individual donations (an excuse for a celebratory fundraising pitch, natch).

In terms of the campaign's organizational chart, this meant that Rospars was on a par with the heads of the other divisions, including field, finance, and communications.

When coupled with online organizing on the MyBO platform and other communications over the Internet (such as the campaign's blog, web videos, and web design), which were unequivocally the domain of new media from early on, as well as merchandising (run with the Finance Division), these activities encompassed the scope of the Division's work.

Kaminsky, meanwhile, released a five - point ethics reform platform that include bans on lawmakers earning outside income, expanding penalties for corruption, campaign finance law changes and enhancing the powers of local district attorneys.

The Senate Democrats are again trying to use a 2009 chamber rule change to their advantage in hopes of forcing a public hearing on their reform agenda, which is contained in five ethics and campaign finance - related bills.

Cuomo, along with Assembly Speaker Carl Heastie and Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan agreed relatively early in the budget negotiations that ethics and campaign - finance reform would not be a threat to the passage of the state budget on time.

Also published on techPresident The announcement largely got lost in Friday clutter, but U.S. campaign finance restrictions took a serious hit at the end of last week.

«You might not support all of these issues, but it is important to know where you stand and where all Democrats stand on a woman's right to choose, GENDA, single payer health care, contraceptive coverage, family planning funding, campaign finance reform and the DREAM Act.»