I’ve added a few pictures from Gov 2.0 Camp to this site’s flickr page here. We were honored to hear from Macon Phillips, White House Director of New Media, and Bev Godwin, White House Director of Online Resources and Interagency Development.
Day: March 28, 2009
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Free Speech and Obama Administration Lobbying Rules
The Politico explains that free speech proponents are concerned about the Obama administration’s new lobbying restrictions.
Free speech advocates from across the political spectrum are accusing President BarackObama of impinging on First Amendment rights and are gearing up to take their case public.
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Political Consultant Sentenced
A political consultant was sentenced to three months in prison, according to this DoJ press release.
[Alberto] Goachet pleaded guilty on Dec. 4, 2008, to a one-count information charging him with conspiring with De Castro Font and others to launder money provided by a Puerto Rico businessman to De Castro Font. Goachet admitted that he, De Castro Font and others laundered the money through the use of fake invoices purporting to reflect legitimate payments to a political consulting firm owned by Goachet. The false invoices were meant to conceal the businessman’s illegal payments to De Castro Font.