Category: FEC

FEC’s Reporting Capacity

The FEC’s reporting capacity is referred to in this Politico article. The campaign finance reports filed by Obama and Clinton have grown so massive that they’ve strained the capacity of the Federal Election Commission, good government groups, the media and even software applications to process and make sense of the data.

Defense Rests in Fieger Case

WRAL.com has the report:  Questioned by Assistant U.S. Attorney Lynn Helland, Fieger insisted the payments he gave his employees were bonuses – “extra income” from which he was careful to deduct taxes – and denied they were coerced into donating to the Edwards campaign. “Of course it was their money. I can’t get it back,” […]