BITCOIN GIVING. Bloomberg. “The FEC’s legendary dysfunction aside, I don’t think it’ll be easy for it to refuse the PAC’s request. (In an e-mail, former FEC lawyer Kenneth Gross agreed.) As former FEC chairman Trevor Potter noted in another e-mail, campaigns and political committees may already accept contributions in foreign currencies (provided they are from U.S. citizens and don’t exceed limits).”
SCF MCCONNELL AD. Roll Call. “The Senate Conservatives Fund is upping its ante against Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell by launching a TV attack ad statewide.”
AIDE TO FIRM. Story here. “A senior aide to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) will join Mercury, a lobbying and public affairs firm.”
AIDE TO DELTA. Story here. “Speaker John Boehner’s policy staffer Will Kinzel is exiting Capitol Hill to become managing director of government affairs at Delta Airlines.”
MAGNATE SENTENCED. Story here. “A Houma businessman was sentenced in federal court on Thursday for making false statements to the Federal Election Commission related to illegal campaign contributions to Sens. Mary Landrieu and David Vitter in 2008. ”
FOR THE DEFENDANT. MainJustice covers a development in the “tussle” over DOJ-FEC relations bubbling up in a court proceeding.
DC: EVANS ISSUES. The Post. “William O. SanFord, general counsel for the Office of Campaign Finance, said during a Wednesday meeting of the Board of Elections that the agency opened a preliminary investigation last month into whether donations to Evans’s constituent service fund broke campaign finance regulations.”
MI: ALLEGATION DENIED. Story here. “New allegations of improper campaign contributions into Detroit’s mayoral election are tonight being brushed off as baseless and having no merit.”
NM: BAN UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Story here. “U.S. District Judge M. Christina Armijo ruled that Albuquerque’s ban on corporate campaign contributions is unconstitutional.”
VA: VIEW ON LOBBYIST REPORTING CHANGES. Here. “My suggestion is drop the requirement that compensation be reported at all – just ask whether the lobbyist is retained or salaried.”
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