Forty lobbyists with ties to President Donald Trump helped clients secure more than $10 billion in federal coronavirus aid, among them five former administration officials whose work violates Trump’s own ethics policy, according to a report.
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Former Washington insider and longtime lobbyist Jack Abramoff was charged Thursday for his role in a cryptocurrency fraud scheme, and has already made a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty.
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On the campaign trail a year before his election, Donald Trump boasted in a radio interview that his real estate holdings in Istanbul could influence U.S.-Turkish foreign policy as president.
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A Hungarian law requiring nongovernmental organizations to register with the government if they receive foreign donations was declared illegal by the European Union’s highest court on Thursday.
Read moreThe NRA sued Oliver North in Albany County (N.Y.) Supreme Court, demanding that he resign from its board of directors or from the NRA’s former advertising firm, Ackerman McQueen.
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In three letters copied to the U.S. president, a Turkish businessman who partnered on the Trump Towers Istanbul deal implored White House officials to sizably boost trade with Turkey in response to the novel coronavirus.
Read moreA former chemical industry executive nominated to be the nation’s top consumer safety watchdog was involved in sidelining detailed guidelines to help communities reopen during the coronavirus pandemic, internal government emails show.
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Faced with 20,000 coronavirus deaths and counting, the nation’s long-term homes are pushing back against a potential flood of lawsuits with a sweeping lobbying effort to get states to grant them immunity from claims of inadequate care.
Read morePolitical lobbyists may have been hit as hard as other sectors by the virus pandemic, but that doesn’t justify giving them a slice of the government aid pie, a federal judge ruled.
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The D.C. Circuit on Tuesday revived claims that EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt broke ethics rules when he banned agency-funded scientists from sitting on federal advisory boards.
Read morePolitical consultants and lobbyists suing for relief through a program meant to ease the economic blow dealt by Covid-19 assured a federal judge on Monday that they would use the emergency funds to keep the lights on, not to peddle politics.
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Opening five new stalking cases against a key figure from the impeachment saga, prosecutors set the stage for pretrial detention of long-shot congressional candidate Robert Hyde.
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The First Circuit appeared highly conflicted Wednesday as to whether private-sector unions can ever force members to subsidize lobbying.
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President Trump’s son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner has sold his stake in a company investing in Opportunity Zone projects that offer tax breaks he pushed for in Washington, sparking criticism that he was benefiting from his White House role.
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The day before President Donald Trump’s impeachment, Senator Ron Wyden had been nearly two months deep into his investigation of the next international scandal to stain the White House.
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A Manhattan judge ruled Monday that the National Rifle Association cannot intercept documents related to an investigation by the New York state attorney general’s office into its nonprofit status.
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Gratifying those who sued to get the panel disbanded, the Trump administration announced the demise of White House advisory board stacked with trophy-hunting advocates while purporting to promote wildlife conservation.
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An ally of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro has hired a Washington lobbyist whose business has boomed under the Trump administration as part of a $12.5 million effort to ease sanctions and reset bilateral relations as the U.S.-backed campaign to oust the socialist leader stalls.
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Accusing the Trump administration of jeopardizing public safety to appease gun lobbyists, 21 attorneys general sued the federal government Thursday over new rules that make it easier to distribute blueprints for 3D-printed guns online.
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Los Angeles City Council members voted Tuesday to repeal an ordinance requiring businesses contracted with the city to disclose any ties to the National Rifle Association.
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