FCC CHANGE.  WP.  “Beginning now, you’re going to be able to sit at your computer and find out where your competition has been taking out ads, when they got them for and for how much money.”

FIRST PAY TO PLAY ENFORCEMENT ACTION.  Proskauer.  “On June 20, 2014, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced its first enforcement action under the Pay-to-Play Rule, Rule 206(4)-5 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940 (Advisers Act).”

COMPLIANCE MOVES.  Congratulations to Scott Stetson on his move to MultiStates Associates, Inc.

WHAT’S NEXT FOR EARMARKS.  RC.  “Speaker John A. Boehner’s office is out with a new video slamming Senate Democrats and pledging that as long as the Ohio Republican is speaker, ‘there will be no earmarks.'”

MUCH ADO ABOUT CHANGE.  NJ.  “Free trips paid for by private groups must still be reported separately to the House’s Office of the Clerk and disclosed there.”

PELOSI PIPES IN.  The Hill.  “House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called Tuesday for the Ethics Committee to reinstate public disclosure requirements when lawmakers take privately funded trips.”

CU-HOBBY LOBBY CONNECTION.  DelawareOnline.  “Whether the Court’s Hobby Lobby decision does indeed have “startling breadth” remains to be seen. But if it does, some of that breadth may show up in surprising places, like the court’s future campaign finance cases.”

FRANCE:  SARKOZY DETAINED.  VOA.  “Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy is in custody of financial investigators while being questioned about insider information he allegedly received about a campaign finance probe.”

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