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 […]
Month: June 2009
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 […]
No Appeal of Florida Electioneering Communications Case
The Orlando Sentinel reports that Florida will not appeal a federal court decision striking Florida’s electioneering communications rule. The now-scrapped law required so-called electioneering communications organizations, or ECOs as they’re known in Florida, to follow a number of regulations: registering with the government within 24 hours of their creation; appointing a campaign treasurer; making regular reports […]