Tuesday’s political law links, 6/11/13

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 period when trading in the shares of those firms spiked.”

LDA ENFORCEMENT ACTION. InsidePoliticalLaw.com. “On Friday, June 7, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia filed what appears to be the first ever complaint in a Lobbying Disclosure Act (‘LDA’) enforcement action that was not the product of a negotiated settlement.”

SEBELIUS FUNDRAISING SPOTLIGHT. WFB. “Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius solicited funding from a foundation that holds a significant share of its assets in Johnson & Johnson stock, a move that appears to run afoul of ethics rules, according to a former chief White House ethics counsel.”

“DARK MONEY” AND MARKEY. WFB. “Two liberal dark money advocacy groups have dropped hundreds of thousands of dollars in the past week either supporting Markey’s candidacy, or attacking Gabriel Gomez, his Republican opponent.”

“DARK MONEY” TARGETED. USAT. “Political spending by groups that don’t disclose their donors has exploded after a recent series of court rulings relaxing longstanding spending and advertising restrictions.”

CO: GESSLER WAITS. Story here. “For Colorado Secretary of State Scott Gessler, next Thursday’s ruling by the state ethics commission means very little. In another sense, it means a lot.”

DC: BROWN PLEADS GUILTY. The Post. “Former D.C. council member Michael A. Brown pleaded guilty in federal court Monday to accepting $55,000 in bribes, and he agreed to serve up to three years and one month in prison in a deal worked out with federal prosecutors.”

VA: MCDONNELL DEVELOPMENT. Here. “A Virginia state delegate has confirmed that he’s been called to appear next month as a witness before a federal grand jury as part of an investigation related to Gov. Robert F. McDonnell.”

HAVE A GREAT DAY.

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