Category: Vermont

Got Influence? Nonprofit news, a guilty plea, Vermont solicitations, and more political law links for today

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 26, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, Alabama, House, IRS, Vermont

ROGERS’ NONPROFITS IN THE NEWS. Politico reports. “Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), the new chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, has funneled more than $236 million in federal funds since 2000 to a web of nonprofit groups he created back home in the Bluegrass State, according to a new report by an ethics watchdog group.” GUILTY […]

Political law links today: J&J FCPA case, disclosure and democracy, no smooth sledding for VT CFR, the Waters case, and more

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date April 11, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, California, FCPA, FEC, Georgia, House, Vermont

JOHNSON & JOHNSON & FCPA. Another FCPA settlement announced. DOJ Release. “‘Today, Johnson & Johnson has admitted that its subsidiaries, employees and agents paid bribes to publicly-employed health care providers in Greece, Poland and Romania, and that kickbacks were paid on behalf of Johnson & Johnson subsidiary companies to the former government of Iraq under […]

House ethics highlights, Canadian codes of lobbyist conduct, CFR moves and more in today’s political law links

Post author By Eric Brown
Post date March 30, 2011
Categories In A.M. Report, Alabama, FEC, Foreign Laws, House, Vermont, Voting

A WELCOMING RECEPTION. From today’s Politico Playbook: “HAPPENING TODAY: ‘McGuireWoods LLP & McGuireWoods Consulting LLC [holds a 5 p.m.] welcome reception for our new Political Law Group, including partners and group co-chairs Elliot S. Berke & William J. Farah — Remarks by The Honorable Evan Bayh, Partner & Former U.S. Senator from Indiana, & Richard […]