The News & Observer reports that an alleged bribery case involving Blue Cross was unfounded. Investigators have cleared a lobbyist in an attempted bribery case handed over by the legislature’s ethics commission. A spokesman for Blue Cross and Blue Shield says the SBI and Wake County District Attorney Colon Willoughby have cleared Ken Wright, a […]
Month: June 2009
Citizens United In the Media
The Times covers what transpired at the Supreme Court yesterday in Citizens United. “The court is poised to reverse longstanding precedents concerning the rights of corporations to participate in politics,” said Nathaniel Persily, a law professor at Columbia. “The only reason to ask for reargument on this is if they’re going to overturn Austin and […]
Monica Conyers Resigns
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.