The Post reports on a House aide’s sentence for charges related to the reporting of income from a nonprofit. The DOJ release explains: On Dec. 7, 2007, Russell James Caso Jr., 36, of Canton, Ga., pleaded guilty before Judge Kennedy in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia to a one-count criminal information charging […]
Day: July 31, 2009
The Ethics of the Ethics Committee
The Post discusses the ethical considerations of House Ethics investigations. Members of the House ethics committee, who are investigating a pattern of lawmakers steering federal funds to generous defense contractors, have just had their own pet military projects approved by the same committee whose activities they are probing. . . . Jan Baran, a lawyer […]
Citizens United Amici
In the Citizens United case, supporting briefs are trickling in and appear to be collected here for your reading pleasure.