Several sources, including this one, report that the House Ethics Committee has found that Rep. Rangel violated House rules in connection with Caribbean trips. The House Ethics Committee website doesn’t show anything about the matter as of the time of this post, but keep checking. The Times report is here. Politico reports that Rep. Rangel […]
Day: February 25, 2010
What’s in the Missouri campaign finance bill?
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. The bill would ban most committee-to-committee transfers of campaign donations, an attempt to reduce the “money laundering” that lawmakers have alleged goes on. Under the bill, political action committees could give only to candidates, instead of to other committees. Also, the bill would give the Missouri Ethics Commission new authority […]
R. Allen Stanford’s estate seeks political contributions back
The Post has a fololw-up to a Peter Overby report I noted yesterday on R. Allen Stanford’s estate’s lawsuit to get political contributions returned. The lawsuit argues that since campaign contributions are essentially gifts — and were not given in return for goods and services — there is nothing barring the parties from returning the […]