Category: FEC

Secret trip funding and other political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 14, 2015
Categories In A.M. Report, Arizona, FEC, House, Missouri, Montana

HOUSE TRIP QUESTIONS. WP. “The state-owned oil company of Azerbaijan secretly funded an all-expenses-paid trip to a conference in Baku, on the Caspian Sea, in 2013 for 10 members of Congress and 32 staff members, according to a confidential ethics report obtained by The Washington Post. Three former top aides to President Obama appeared as speakers […]

Coordination and more in today’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 13, 2015
Categories In A.M. Report, FEC, Montana, New York, Texas

GROUP TO GET CLOSER. NYT. “Correct the Record, a group started by David Brock, a staunch ally of Hillary Rodham Clinton, is recreating itself as a stand-alone ‘super PAC’ that has the ability to coordinate with her campaign.” REFORM PROPOSAL. CT. “The good news for those billionaires is that under my new plan, they still […]

5-11 pol. law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date May 11, 2015
Categories In A.M. Report, Connecticut, FEC, Illinois, Mass., Montana, Texas, Vermont

LONGTIME PROSECUTOR ASSUMES COMMAND. NLJ. “Longtime prosecutor Raymond Hulser was named Thursday the new chief of the Public Integrity Section at the U.S. Department of Justice.” D EDGE. OCR. “The Super PACs created in the wake of the Supreme Court’s 2010 Citizens United ruling seemed like a boon for Republican interests. But Democrats last year […]