Sentences with phrase «purposes of campaign contribution»

Instead, the Board decided to follow the lead of the Federal Election Commission and treat LLCs as individuals for the purposes of campaign contribution limits.

However, in 1999, the FEC reversed its position and decided that LLCs should be treated either as a corporation or a partnership for the purposes of campaign contribution limits — but not the limits set for human beings.

In 1996, the state board of elections ruled that LLCs may be treated as separate and distinct individuals for the purpose of campaign contributions.

Not exact matches

Cohen's hush payment, for purposes of campaign finance law, might have been a contribution to the Trump campaign even if it were a loan.

Still, if the purpose of the payment was to help Trump's candidacy, it could be considered a campaign contribution.

According to New York law, state - level campaign contributions can be used for «any lawful purpose,» but they «shall not be converted by any person to a personal use which is unrelated to a political campaign or the holding of a public office or party position.»

The report cited a 2013 legislative proposal by Cuomo that campaign contributions should be used only for a purpose «directly related to promoting the nomination or election of a candidate or the execution of duties associated with the holding of a public office or party position.»

Commission documents obtained and authenticated by City & State show that Moreland's investigators sought to determine if lawmakers were spending the contributions they received for legitimate campaign - oriented purposes, or whether any money was going to their personal use, in violation of state law.

«Every year, hundreds of donors give more money than is allowed by state law that has highest limits of any state capping donation size; scores of candidates fail to disclose large contributions received in the run - up to Election Day; thousands of filings obfuscate the identity of donors or the purpose of expenditures through the inclusion of incomplete or incorrect information; and dozens of incumbent lawmakers spend campaign funds for what reasonable people would unanimously agree are non-campaign reasons,» the report found.

In real terms, these rules which exist in virtually every jurisdiction, include laws and regulations which forbid the unauthorized use of state resources for political purposes, contributions from dubious sources, violation of campaign funding limits as prescribed by enabling laws, the use of money to influence voters and election outcomes, non-disclosure of campaign spending, abuse of media, broadcasting and political advertising rules, and rules on declaration of assets, academic qualifications, health and other disclosures and internal party guidelines and rules.

In 1996, the New York State Board of Elections issued an opinion that said that, for the purposes of the campaign finance law, LLCs were not considered corporations and thus were not subject to the state's corporate contribution limits.