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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.

In October, that prime minister was replaced by one who campaigned on borrowing money to finance an infrastructure program.

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.»

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.

«The hackers accessed software designed to be used by poll workers on Election Day, and in at least one state accessed a campaign finance database.»

«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.

Donald Trump has forgiven $ 50 million in loans he made to his campaign, and fundraising efforts have kicked into high gear, his national finance chairman told CNBC on Thursday.

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.

Michael Pyle, a former economic aide in the Obama administration who works at BlackRock, is an unpaid adviser to the campaign on finance policy.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

The IDC will hold another public hearing on ethics and campaign finance reform from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. in Buffalo.

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.»

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.

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.

Working together we will build on all that we've achieved and continue to lift up New Yorkers by investing in our infrastructure, passing the DREAM Act, enacting campaign finance and voting reform, and further strengthening New York's nation - leading gun safety laws.

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.

She also signaled a desire to stay in the political game, saying the state needs leaders to take on Wall Street (even though she had declined to pledge not to accept finance industry campaign cash), clean up Albany, champion marriage equality and fight environmental polluters.

Fix It is going up with its first TV ad today — a spot that will air in Westchester and takes Sen. George Latimer to task for «imposing a New York City - style campaign finance system on the entire state,» which will cost taxpayers millions and open the system up for «abuse.»

«He has been a champion of progressive values in the Assembly, leading the charge on government accountability and campaign finance reform.

«I am running because we need universal health care, we need to ensure a quality education for every child, and we need to create real campaign finance reform on the state level,» Brezler wrote in the email.

Cuomo has called for closing the LLC loophole in campaign finance law as well as an agreement on requiring officials convicted of corruption to surrender their pensions through a constitutional amendment.

Flanagan needs to allow meaningful campaign finance reform and limitations on outside income to come to the floor for every member to take a position on this session or he will be sitting in the back row of the minority caucus come January!

She'll also hit on themes Democrats have raised in the campaign, including the cost of corruption to taxpayers and the need to approve anti-corruption and campaign finance law changes in the chamber.

Senate Democrats reported owing their main consulting firm The Parkside Group $ 185,808 in their campaign finance report made public on Tuesday morning, but the filing shows the figure represented a bill that had recently been recorded, not a formal loan.

October 4, 1992, AP Joseph J. DioGuardi, who is seeking election to a House seat he lost amid charges of campaign finance irregularities, tried to avoid paying taxes through an investment scheme designed to lose money, according to U.S. Tax Court records... In 1978, DioGuardi was a partner in Daga Financial Co., which bought and sold options and futures on stocks and securities, according to court paperIn 1978, DioGuardi was a partner in Daga Financial Co., which bought and sold options and futures on stocks and securities, according to court paperin Daga Financial Co., which bought and sold options and futures on stocks and securities, according to court papers.

An Albany City Court judge ordered former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry Wojtaszek to pay a $ 1,000 fine for violating a state campaign finance law in 2012, after he pleaded guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors working on the case against former State Sen. George Maziarz.

Some political liberals, appalled at the liberation of monied interests to spend immense amounts on elections, support a convention for the purpose of overruling the Court's 2010 decision in Citizens United that declared unconstitutional most imitations on campaign finance.

In fact, that's the whole crux of the debate on campaign finance reform.

Good - government group Citizens Union released a report this morning that found more competitive elections take place on the New York City council level than at the state level, which they attribute to in part a public - financing of campaigns.

ICYMI in this morning's CapTon memo (if you're interested in receiving it, please hit the «subscribe» button on the Capital Tonight home page), Gov. Andrew Cuomo had another moment of questionable optics on the topic of campaign finance reform yesterday.

During an interview that will air on CapTon at 8 p.m. and 11:30 p.m. tonight, Pataki expressed distaste with Super PACs, but said they're a necessary evil in a «screwed up» campaign finance system.

ICYMI: Sean Eldrige and Steve Cohen joined me on CapTon last night to discuss Protect Our Democracy, a new campaign that will work with the Cuomo administration on a coordinated push for campaign finance reform using a similar model to the one successfully employed last year to get a same - same marriage bill passed in Albany.

«You need people in office who are going to use their best judgment in office,» Cuomo said on WNYC this morning, «because you're not going to change the campaign finance system because of Citizens United.»

Senate Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco will report in his latest campaign - finance filing «just shy» of $ 1 million in cash on hand, a sign that a GOP source says the majority conference's fundraising will be beyond formidable this election Finance Committee Chairman John DeFrancisco will report in his latest campaign - finance filing «just shy» of $ 1 million in cash on hand, a sign that a GOP source says the majority conference's fundraising will be beyond formidable this election finance filing «just shy» of $ 1 million in cash on hand, a sign that a GOP source says the majority conference's fundraising will be beyond formidable this election season.

On April 25, Cuomo, who made public campaign finance part of his 2010 campaign reform agenda and highlighted it in his 2012 State of the State address, had this to say on whether action might be taken this yeaOn April 25, Cuomo, who made public campaign finance part of his 2010 campaign reform agenda and highlighted it in his 2012 State of the State address, had this to say on whether action might be taken this yeaon whether action might be taken this year:

His fundraiser comes on the same week his former top aide, Steve Cohen, and Democratic donor / activist Sean Eldridge and his fiance, Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes, launched a new coordinated effort to push for campaign finance reform in Albany — something for which Cuomo has repeatedly voiced support, but so far not done much to achieve.