Roll Call reports that Kevin Ring’s trial starts soon. Among those expected to testify are Todd Boulanger, an aide to then-Sen. Bob Smith (R-N.H.) and later one of Abramoff’s deputies who pleaded guilty in January to conspiracy to defraud the government; Neil Volz, chief of staff to then-Rep. Bob Ney (R-Ohio) who became a lobbyist […]
Month: August 2009
Political Law Newsletters
Some new political law newsletters are out. Covington’s Political Law Update is online here and Womble Carlyle’s Political GPS is here. Wiley Rein’s Election Law news is here.
Americans for Campaign Reform
Roll Call profiles Daniel Weeks and Americans for Campaign Reform in this article. In an interview Tuesday, the 2006 Yale University graduate also said the campaign finance community is ready for a makeover. Weeks said “from the start” reformers have been too aligned with “left-of-center” political ideology, which has discouraged possible conservative allies from affiliating […]