House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers’ wife resigned from a position on the Detroit City Council after pleading guilty to a bribery charge, according to this report. [Monica] Conyers will leave the council effective next Monday after pleading guilty to charges that she sold her vote on a recycling contract.
Day: June 29, 2009
Another Day, Another Case Under FCPA
The Department of Justice announced a guilty plea in a Foreign Corrupt Practices Act case today. Joseph T. Lukas, 60, a resident of New Jersey, was a partner in Nexus Technologies Inc. until 2005. According to court documents, Nexus Technologies Inc. was a privately owned export company that identified U.S. vendors for contracts opened for […]
Washington’s Long, Hot Summer Just Got Longer and Hotter for Reform Proponents
Needless to say, we will not be seeing too many majority opinions in campaign finance cases citing the sober-minded Elihu Root any time soon. With today’s Supreme Court’s announcement that it will rehear argument in Citizens United and the retirement of Justice Souter, the Court is now poised to consider the huge questions of whether […]