Cohen pleaded guilty in Aug 2018 to a variety of federal crimes, including #CampaignFinance#law violations for his role in 2 #HushMoney deals w/ women who said they had sex w/ #Trump. He also pleaded guilty to personal financial #crimes unrelated to Trump, including tax evasion.
The prosecution’s discussion of the deal w/ #KarenMcDougal —brokered in summer 2016— demonstrated that the payment was part of a #conspiracy to #influence that year’s #election.
Pecker said that McDougal’s payment was disguised as a contract for services, to avoid violating #CampaignFinance#laws.
The Trump campaign’s managers sent a letter asking Republican candidates that use Trump’s name and image in their fundraising ads to give a 5% cut to the Republican nominee’s presidential committee. The letter comes as the former president seeks to close a fundraising gap with President Biden, but campaign officials insist the move is not meant to raise money but to discourage scammers from using his brand and diluting its fundraising reach. Read more from Politico.
Nessel's media advisory provided no further details of what the charges would be or specifically who will be the subject of the allegations. #Nessel has already charged #Chatfield's top 2 advisors from his term as speaker in the #corruption probe.
Chatfield was a prolific fundraiser & worked closely w/some Lansing lobbyists. Charges against Chatfield could spur new calls for #ethics reforms in Lansing, where a series of high-profile figures have faced charges in recent years.
#STARvoting now hiring signature gatherers in #Portland/ #pdx metro area, in coalition with "Get Big Money out of Politics" and the "Oregon People's Rebate" Universal Basic Income initiative. #UBI#BasicIncome#votingReform#CampaignFinance#democracy#ORpol (paid canvassers would carry all 3 petitions.) Learn more about STAR voting at Oregon Chapter Meeting Wed at 6pm online starvoting.org/events
Matt Bai: Ron DeSantis is betting you won’t click on this campaign finance story
"One important rule remained in place, however: Candidates were not allowed to coordinate activities or messaging with the super PACs that supported them. Most campaigns since then, guided by legions of pricey lawyers, have gone to great lengths to comply (or at least appear to comply) with that caveat. Plenty of candidates in recent years have blurred the lines, but none have obliterated them in quite the way DeSantis has.
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More to the point, voters find all these rules confusing and arcane (because they are), and DeSantis is betting that no one voting in a Republican primary is going to penalize him for flagrantly violating them. On that point, he’s probably right."
REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST GETS 18 MONTHS FOR FACILITATING ILLICIT RUSSIAN DONATION TO 2016 TRUMP CAMPAIGN
Jesse Benton, a #Republican strategist, was just sentenced to 18 months in prison for facilitating an illicit $100K donation from a #Russian oligarch to the Trump Presidential campaign in 2016.
'Federal prosecutors today unsealed a grand jury indictment that accuses a Torrance man who was a candidate for a Los Angeles County congressional seat in four federal elections with misusing campaign funds, including funneling tens of thousands of dollars in campaign donations back to himself through his friends and family. Omar Navarro, 34, is charged in a 43-count grand jury indictment."
Republican party member Mitch McConnell weaponized the filibuster and in collusion with Leonard Leo stacked the U.S. Supreme Court with an ultraconservative supermajority.
Earlier: Campaign finance laws in #Virginia and #Texas contain loopholes big enough to drive a truck through. Or, in this case, a million dollar donation from a sketchy shell company.
To those who say there's no difference between #republicans and #democrats because they're both controlled by corporate money, are you familiar with the #DISCLOSE act? If not, please consider that your convictions may have been influenced by #gop propaganda campaigns. It's been introduced each session since 2010.
[Analysis] DeSantis Faces Critical Decision on Cruise Ships in Key West (www.nytimes.com)
A campaign donor to Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to expand cruise ship operations in Key West, where voters have tried to restrict them.