The Post covers Norman Hsu’s trial here. A longtime Democratic fundraiser believed he could get away with breaking campaign contribution laws by using actresses and other political neophytes as straw donors, a prosecutor said Monday in closing statements at his corruption trial. “He thought he covered his tracks,” Katherine Lemire told a jury in federal […]
The Post details the involvement of Congressman A (currently White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel) and his brother (Ari Emanuel) in circumstances surrounding an alleged scheme by Gov. Blagojevich. The indictment also does not say whether either Rahm or Ari Emanuel was ever pressured to raise money. It alleges only that Blagojevich told a lobbyist […]
A Massachusetts tribe leader was sentenced yesterday as a result of charges stemming from the investigation into Jack Abramoff, according to this Post report.