A California state senator faces a $9 million lawsuit involving alleged campaign finance irregularities. The San Francisco Chronicle reports: “For years, Sen. Migden has been deceiving the voters of California by filing inaccurate campaign statements,” Ross Johnson, chairman of the state Fair Political Practices Commission, said in a statement. “The sophisticated and pervasive pattern of […]
Author: Eric Brown
Foreign National Ban Bans More than Contributions
The foreign national ban is much more than a ban on “contributions” from foreign nationals: § 110.20 Prohibition on contributions, donations, expenditures, independent expenditures, and disbursements by foreign nationals (2 U.S.C. 441e, 36 U.S.C. 510).
State of Play on FCPA
“Today, No Bribe is too Small” at Law.com offers a great survey of recent Foreign Corrupt Practices Act matters. The article reports bigger fines under FCPA and more cases: The number of enforcement actions seems to increase every year. Together, the Justice Department and the SEC brought an average of just one or two cases […]