The FCPA Blog has the latest on the trial of former Rep. William Jefferson. It will mark the first time a former member of congress has been prosecuted under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the only time the country has seen two FCPA trials staged simultaneously — Jefferson’s in Alexandria, Virginia and Frederic Bourke’s […]
Day: June 9, 2009
Lobbying Twitter Style
Sen. Grassley’s tweets have been in the news recently. According to this article, at least one group is using Twitter to lobby the Senator on healthcare. Despite no direct response from Grassley, Andrew Mertens of Change That Works Iowa was encouraged that the senator had been talking about health care throughout the day. During the […]
White House Office of New Media Shy?
Someone must not be too keen on letting applicants to work at the White House Office of New Media know that they’re applying for a job to work at the… White House Office of New Media. As I noted here, several positions were listed and were clearly advertised as being on-site at the White House. (One […]