Month: December 2010

Political activity law A.M. report for Tuesday, Dec. 21

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 21, 2010
Categories In A.M. Report, Alabama, California, FEC, Maryland, New York

Good morning. This is the final morning report for 2010. (There might be a few more individual blog posts before January 3, 2011, and you’ll still get those through email if you’re subscribed. Or you can just stop by PoliticalActivityLaw.com to see if there’s anything new.) This year has been this site’s biggest […]

Political activity law A.M. report for Monday, Dec. 20

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 20, 2010
Categories In A.M. Report, Courts & Cases, Louisiana, Maine, Senate

Good morning. What’s news? An interesting start to a motion to acquit in the Kevin Ring case “This jury was the first in the United States to determine whether a registered federal lobbyist committed honest services fraud for conduct that was, under any view of the evidence, intricately intertwined with legal lobbying efforts.” Read here. […]

Political activity law A.M. report for snowy Friday, Dec. 17

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date December 17, 2010
Categories In A.M. Report, FEC, House, LDA

Good morning. Here are a few of the lobbying, political law, and ethics stories I’ve seen this morning. The omnibus and the earmarks Through for now. Roll Call. The Hill. The White House and K Street Relations are the topic of this Hill report. Lobbyists in the nation’s capital say they have seen something unexpected […]