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IRS officials aren't cooperating in probes at top or bottom
McClatchy Washington BureauWASHINGTON Internal Revenue Service officials are not fully cooperating with efforts to learn who is responsible for targeting conservative groups, lawmakers learned Wednesday during the third and most tense, dramatic hearing on the scandal. First, the...Tags: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Taxation, Easter, Arts and Culture, Crime, Law and Justice
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IRS' last two commissioners deny lying; official to take the 5th
WASHINGTON — As the Internal Revenue Service's last two directors struggled to provide answers Tuesday about the agency's improper scrutiny of conservative groups, a lawyer for another key IRS official said she would invoke the 5th Amendment...
Tags: IRS Tea Party Nonprofit Application Scandal (2013), Taxation, Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, Lawyers
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Measure to limit medicinal pot shops in L.A. is leading
After years of futile attempts by lawmakers to regulate the medical marijuana industry in Los Angeles, a ballot measure to sharply limit the number of pot dispensaries in the city was leading in early returns Tuesday. Proposition D would reduce the...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Medical Marijuana Therapy, Trials, Jose Huizar, Career and Workplace
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Braddock Defense Rests With No Witnesses
The Hartford CourantJury deliberations will likely begin Tuesday in the trial of Robert Braddock, the campaign finance director for former Speaker of the House Christopher Donovan charged with participating in a scheme to hide the sources of contributions. The defense...Tags: Waterbury, Judges, Politics, Prosecution, Witnesses
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EDITORIAL: Sen. Mike Crapo's campaign loan scandal calls for further disclosure
The Idaho StatesmanThe Sen. Mike Crapo public file over the past six months is certainly a mixed bag of good, bad and "say what?" After more than two decades of serving admirably loyal constituencies that elected him to the Idaho Senate, the U.S. House of...Tags: U.S. Senate, Political Fundraising, Mike Crapo, Politics, Barack Obama
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Bachmann campaign allegations attract attention of FBI
Star TribuneThe FBI has contacted two former staffers of U.S. Rep. Michele Bachmann's presidential campaign, adding to the swirl of federal and state investigations looking into alleged financial improprieties by top officials in the campaign. The former campaign...Tags: Political Fundraising, Ethics, Crime, Law and Justice, Washington, DC, Values
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Focus Of Braddock Trial Shifts To Checks
The Hartford CourantThe trial of the campaign finance director for former Speaker of the House Christopher Donovan has provided must-watch political theater, thanks in part to the vulgar, sometimes crude, and grandiose testimony of Harry Raymond Soucy, the government...Tags: Waterbury, Political Fundraising, Joe Biden, Crime, Law and Justice, Christopher G Donovan
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Crapo throws himself at mercy of FEC
The Idaho StatesmanSen. Mike Crapo is hoping to make the best of a bad situation by taking advantage of a 2007 policy that encourages campaigns to voluntarily report violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act. Last week, the Idaho Republican filed a "sua sponte"...Tags: Mike Crapo, Politics, Crime, Law and Justice, Raul Labrador, Finance
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Sestak ponders Senate campaign in 2016
The Tribune-Democrat, Johnstown, Pa.Possibly running for governor in 2014 really tempted Joe Sestak. The Democrat topped Gov. Tom Corbett, a Republican, by 14 percentage points in a recent Quinnipiac University poll. He previously reached the rank of three-star admiral in the U.S. Navy,...Tags: U.S. Senate, Unrest, Conflicts and War, Joe Sestak, Fiscal Cliff, Tom Corbett
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IRS problem started with vague tax exemption rules
WASHINGTON — In spring 2010, agents in the Cincinnati office of the Internal Revenue Service, which handles applications for tax-exempt status, faced a surge of filings by new advocacy groups, with little guidance on how to treat them. Their...
Tags: Political Fundraising, Taxation, Crime, Law and Justice, Lawyers, Justice System
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Future after Watt for Democrats
The High Point Enterprise, N.C.Usually a political party gathering in an off year from a major election wouldn't draw much attention, but this year's 12th Congressional District Democratic Party convention takes place during anything but a normal time. Democrats from the district...Tags: U.S. Senate, Local Elections, Charlotte, Politics, Barack Obama
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OPINION: Idaho's three million dollar man loses some
The Lewiston TribuneIf Congressman Raul Labrador's re-election campaign lost a quarter of a million bucks, the Idaho Republican would be down to his last $472. For Congressman Mike Simpson, R-Idaho, misplacing $250,000 would leave him $183,509 in the hole. Even U.S. Sen....Tags: Political Fundraising, Michael K. Simpson, JPMorgan Chase & Co., Amgen Inc., U.S. Congress
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