The Sunlight Foundation’s Daniel Schuman examines TARP lobbying rules here. The rules promulgated by the Treasury Department attempt to meet the great challenge of improved transparency, but fall short of their potential. They are hard to understand, difficult to apply, and full of contradictions and omissions that undermine stated policy objectives. The rules should be […]
Day: October 16, 2009
Former GSA CoS Safavian sentenced to prison
The Department of Justice has a press release on the sentenced given to David Safavian. Safavian was found guilty by a federal jury in June 2006 of obstruction of justice and making false statements, but the verdicts were later vacated by the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and remanded for a new trial. […]
Georgia Ethics Commission and the Oxendine investigation
According to this report, the Georgia Ethics Commission failed to drop an investigation into John Oxendine’s campaign for governor’s acceptance of $120,000 of suspect contributions.