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• in Politics
  Unraveling Herman Cain’s Money Laundering Scheme
  Herman Cain’s strategy to buy books from himself sure looks like money laundering. It is time for an investigation.
  by jimmyzuma / on Oct 20, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “fec”

 

• Rick Santorum And NOM Subjects Of New Federal Ethics Complaints Filings

  
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  Rick Santorum , the National Organization For Marriage ( NOM ) and Iowa anti-gay activist Bob Vander Plaats are reportedly about to become the subjects of ethics and election violations complaints which will be filed by Republican Fred Karger . Karger is charging NOM has been “money laundering” in ...
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• Tuesday’s political law links, 6/11/13

  
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  FEC MEETING. The agenda for Thursday’s Federal Election Commission meeting is online here . POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE ALERT. The Post . “Hundreds of federal employees were given advance word of a Medicare decision worth billions of dollars to private insurers in the weeks before the official announcement, a ...
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• Wisconsin Aggregate Contribution Limits Challenged

  
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  Fred M. Young believes Wisconsin’s political contribution limits violate his First Amendment right to free speech, and a nonprofit law firm filing suit on his behalf agrees with him. The Wisconsin Institute for Law & Liberty filed suit against members of the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board claiming the ...
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• Good morning, here are Monday’s political law links, 6/10/13

  
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  JACKSON’S RECOMMENDED SENTENCE. Story here . “Prosecutors Friday recommended four years in prison for former Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., following his guilty plea this year on criminal charges that he engaged in a scheme to spend $750,000 in campaign funds on personal items.” 31 DAYS OF THE IRS SCANDAL. ...
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• All Aboard Florida! Downtown Miami Map Preview and Rail-Trail Poll

  
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  Miami is undergoing one of the most magnificent metamorphoses in its history. One of the impetuses of this transformation is the Florida East Coast (FEC) Industries’ corridor project called All Aboard Florida . The project will link Miami and Southeast Florida to Orlando and Central Florida. It’s a very big ...
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• Good morning, here are today’s political law links, 6/6

  
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  FEC GC TO LEAVE. Roll Call . “Covington & Burling announced today that Tony Herman, the General Counsel of the Federal Election Commission, is returning to work at the firm. Herman was named the FEC General Counsel in September 2011.” MEMBER PAYMENTS QUESTIONS. USAT . “Over the past 10 years, Rep. Luis ...
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• What Charles G. Koch can teach us about campaign finance data

  
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  On May 13, I wrote up an analysis of campaign finance data that asked “ Did almost 600 donors break campaign finance law in 2012 ?” Truth is, I wasn’t sure. The bulk data made it appear that way, but as I noted at the outset, “our most troubling finding may be just how difficult it is determine with legal ...
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• Good morning, here are Wednesday’s political law links, 6/5

  
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  SPECIAL ELECTION SET. The Hill . “New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) on Tuesday called an Oct. 16 special election to fill the late-Sen. Frank Lautenberg’s (D) seat, sending voters to the polls just weeks before he faces his own reelection.” EMAIL SECRETS. Story here . “The Associated Press reported ...
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• American Face Dust – Black Moth Super Rainbow Live @ The Hawthorne Theatre [Portland, OR]

  
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  Black Moth Super Rainbow The Hawthorne Theatre Portland, OR 5.21.13 I first heard of the Pittsburgh , PA band, Black Moth Super Rainbow back in 2009 .  At the time, I was living in Tacoma , WA , working two shitty jobs, and stuck in a real “going nowhere” phase of my life.  Somehow, I managed to ...
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• Dark Money Data Added to OpenSecrets.org

  
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  For the past year and half, the Center for Responsive Politics has been putting together the largest publicly available set of IRS data on politically active nonprofits. Today, were releasing it. The new material lives in the Outside Spending section of our site. On the introduction page , users will find some ...
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• Good morning, here are today’s political law links, 6/4

  
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  UNION PAYS. WFB . “One of the Democratic Party’s largest political contributors must pay a former employee who was fired from his job because he refused to donate to a union political action committee (PAC).” MORE HEARINGS.  The Post .  “Congress on Monday held its fourth hearing on the Internal ...
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• Responding to Objections to Shining Light on Corporate Political Spending (6): The Claim that Disclosure Rules are Prohibited by the Constitution

  
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  Editors Note: Lucian Bebchuk is Professor of Law, Economics, and Finance at Harvard Law School. Robert J. Jackson, Jr. is Associate Professor of Law, Milton Handler Fellow, and Co-Director of the Millstein Center at Columbia Law School. Bebchuk and Jackson served as co-chairs of the Committee on Disclosure of ...
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• Good morning, here are Monday’s political law links, 6-3-13

  
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  DANIELCZYK SENTENCED. Story here . “A northern Virginia businessman was sentenced Friday to more than two years in prison for illegally funneling nearly $200,000 to Hillary Clinton’s political campaigns in 2006 and 2008.” The Department of Justice’s press release is here . TWITTER FUNDRAISING. C&E . ...
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• Illinois becomes 14th state to back constitutional amendment to allow limits on election spending

  
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  Today, Illinois became the 14th state to call for a constitutional amendment to rid elections of corporate money and unlimited spending. This bipartisan action by the Illinois General Assembly demonstrates continuing national momentum to overturn the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United v. Federal ...
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• 5-30-13 political law links

  
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  GUILTY VERDICT IN NV. Story here . “A Nevada powerbroker who headed a billion-dollar real estate company and pulled the strings of state politics as a prominent lobbyist for more than a decade was convicted Wednesday of making illegal campaign contributions to U.S. Sen. Harry Reid.” ROGERS ON POLITICAL ...
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• Thug In A Skirt Lois Lerner 1996: “Promise Me You Will Never Run Again, And We’ll Drop This Case”

  
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  Michael Barone often refers to the Obama administration and its many bureaucrats at “gangster government.” I’m thinking they are starting to make gangsters look almost benign. It’s not like gangsters have any official authority over any of us. Not like the IRS, an agency that has authority over each and ...
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• EXCLUSIVE: Lerner intrigue goes back to 96 Durbin/Salvi U.S. Senate race

  
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  CHICAGO - The IRS scandal may have its roots in Illinois politics. Specifically, the 1996 U.S. Senate race between then-Democrat Congressman Dick Durbin and conservative Republican State Rep. Al Salvi. More than a decade before his 2010 letter to IRS...
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• Good morning, here are today’s political law links, 5/29

  
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  READY FOR 16. Politico . “The ‘Ready For Hillary’ super PAC, which seems to have particularly close ties to the Clinton universe, has in recent weeks been beefing up its operation, attracting some major figures in Democratic fundraising before there’s even a candidate.” REID SORRY. Story here . “U.S. ...
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• Good morning, here are today’s political law links, 5/28

  
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  OBAMA ADMINISTRATION AND POLITICAL INTELLIGENCE. The Post . “Wall Street investors hungry for advance information on upcoming federal health-care decisions repeatedly held private discussions with Obama administration officials, including a top White House adviser helping to implement the Affordable Care Act.” ...
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• Regulating Protest

  
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  How did our founders manage to establish a republic committed to free speech and the rights of the individual without a Federal Election Commission? Not only did the Sons of Liberty and other patriots lack a functioning FEC to protect them from “big-money interests,” many of the political communications of the ...
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