Category: Courts & Cases

Overby on Stanford political contribution lawsuits

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 23, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases

NPR’s Peter Overby has the latest on a lawsuit to recover R. Allen Stanford’s political contributions.

Word of the day: beholden

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 23, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases

Citizens United is creeping into everything, even the Word of the Day at The Times. The word beholden has appeared in 82 Times articles over the past year, most recently in a February 20, 2010 Op-Ed by Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana called “Why I’m Leaving the Senate”[…]

Guilty plea expected in Cafaro contribution case

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date February 22, 2010
Categories In Courts & Cases, FEC

WYTV reports that John J. Cafaro is expected to plead guilty in charges related to his daughter’s 2004 campaign.