Sentences with phrase «violation of campaign finance law»

Payoffs to adult film stars likely in violation of campaign finance laws.

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio helped raise funds for upstate races, giving Tkaczyk a lift (and later facing scrutiny over alleged violations of campaign finance laws).

The letter, which was sent to the State Board of Elections, sought to rebuff the latest series of accusations against the administration: that Mr. de Blasio's team in City Hall had committed flagrant violations of campaign finance laws during the mayor's unsuccessful push in 2014 to win a Democratic majority in the State Senate.

The President can definitely pardon a criminal violation of a campaign finance law by anyone other than himself.

These flagrant violations of the campaign finance law are pervasive and must be punished.

The majority and more analytically sound position is that the President can not pardon himself for his own criminal violation of a campaign finance law (there are prior questions and answer at Law.SE regarding that question).

The Trump campaign spent more than $ 225,000 on legal expenses for President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen, a possible violation of campaign finance laws, according to a report on Monday...

Ryan, of Common Cause, said Giuliani's comments suggested a willful violation of campaign finance law.

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

A government accountability group, Common Cause, which has filed complaints to the Justice Department and Federal Election Commission about the $ 130,000 payment, said Mr. Giuliani's remarks strengthened their case and put the president «in legal peril for «knowing and willful» violations of campaign finance law related to hush money payments.»

De Blasio's 2013 campaign was recently fined nearly $ 50,000 by the Campaign Finance Board for violations of campaign finance law, more than half of which were fines related to what the board deemed were inappropriate post-election expenses.

The report from the state Board of Elections that accuses him and his team of «willful and flagrant» violations of campaign finance laws immediately changes everything.

Maziarz, 64, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor violation of campaign finance law, and paid a $ 1,000 fine with a conditional discharge.

Campaign Legal Center, the nonprofit that filed the documents with the FEC, claims this is a direct violation of campaign finance law, which requires campaign and party committees to report all their spending.

As part of the deal to kill the commission Cuomo and the Legislature installed Sugarman as the head of an office charged with finding violations of campaign finance law and bringing cases against violators.

The President definitely can not pardon a civil violation of a campaign finance law by anyone.

The state Board of Elections will refer three campaign committees found to be in violation of campaign finance laws to local prosecutors for potential prosecution for receiving donations for more than the legal contribution limit.

Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission heard testimony from Board of Elections officials this fall, where they admitted to essentially doing nothing when it comes to enforcing the hundreds of alleged violations of campaign finance laws.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The lead investigator for the Board of Elections looking into the 2014 fundraising efforts of the Bill de Blasio administration believes there was a `'» willful and flagrant» violation of campaign finance laws during that period of time.

The report was penned by Gov. Andrew Cuomo ally and state Board of Elections counsel Risa Sugarman, who said there were «willful and flagrant» violations of campaign finance laws by the mayor and his political team.

Because of the timing and nature of the payment, it could constitute a violation of campaign finance laws.

Cambridge Analytica secured contracts for US elections that were served by the UK - based SCL, despite the possibility that its use of data scientists with foreign citizenship was a violation of campaign finance laws.

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.»

Mr. Giuliani seemed less concerned with explaining Mr. Trump's previous denial than with emphasizing that it was the candidate's personal money and therefore could not be a violation of campaign finance law.

Michael Cohen, Donald Trump's personal lawyer and «fix - it» guy, is facing legal scrutiny — potentially for bank fraud and violation of campaign finance law.

(That payment could be a violation of campaign finance law — one reason the Daniels saga is more serious than it initially appeared.)

In its quest to wipe out violations of campaign finance laws in the state, the commission issued a subpoena to a firm that had done advertising for Cuomo's 2010 gubernatorial campaign.

Is it typical for someone to be arrested over $ 20k violation of campaign finance laws?

[68] Former New York State Senator Martin Connor contended that because the Bloomberg donations were made to an Independence Party housekeeping account rather than to an account meant for current campaigns, this was a violation of campaign finance laws.

Cuomo's Moreland Act Commission heard testimony from Board of Elections officials this fall, where they admitted to essentially doing nothing when it comes to enforcing the 100's of alleged violations of campaign finance laws.

«Unless this action by the Attorney General's office goes challenged nobody in their cotton - picking right mind is going to go near public financing in the future because all it's going to mean to them is a risk of financial ruin if there's some violation of the campaign finance law that's triggered.

«The facts at the end of the day is, was this a violation of the campaign finance laws or not, and increasingly it looks like it could have been.»

Ethics expert say if the repayment isn't disclosed in the forms, Trump could be in violation of campaign finance laws.

The lead investigator for the Board of Elections looking into the 2014 fundraising efforts of the Bill de Blasio administration believes there was a `'» willful and flagrant» violation of campaign finance laws during that period of time.

At the outset, there is some ambiguity over whether the violation of campaign finance laws would have been by individual person, or the political campaign of the individual person (which is a Section 529 non-profit organization).

Cambridge Analytica secured contracts for US elections that were served by the UK - based SCL, despite the possibility that its use of data scientists with foreign citizenship was a violation of campaign finance laws.