Mainjustice.com has an update on the 22 people arrested in connection with an alleged Foreign Corrupt Practices Act scheme. “This is one conspiracy, but for practical reasons the defendants were indicted separately,” prosecutor Hank Bond Walther said at an arraignment this morning for eight defendants before Judge Richard Leon in federal court in Washington, D.C.
Month: February 2010
Ethics bills clear Utah House
Ethics reform in Utah moves forward, according to this Deseret News report.
The “realities of election law” and Citizens United
National Journal’s Sara Jerome notes a point of potential agreement that emerged during Wednesday’s House Administration Committee hearing on Citizens United. The prospect of empowering national political parties won support from two Democratic sources: Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., Robert Lenhard, a hearing witness and former FEC chairman. “The parties are so constrained it’s not good […]