A California venture capitalist who donated nearly $1 million to Donald Trump’s inauguration committee pleaded guilty in federal court on Friday to falsifying records to hide his work as a foreign agent, but he was recently informed by federal prosecutors in New York he could face similar charges there.
Read moreJoe Olson was once such a passionate supporter of the National Rifle Association that he pledged to bequeath several million dollars from his estate to the gun organization upon his death.
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The Interior Department is proposing to award one of the first contracts for federal water in perpetuity to a powerful rural water district that employed Secretary David Bernhardt as a lawyer and lobbyist.
Read moreShortly after a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme implicated the man who would become Turkey’s president in 2014, proxies for the Turkish government spent more than $1.7 million on their top lobbyists. A Courthouse News investigation found that figure more than quadrupled to about $7.3 million by 2018, with much of the money going to allies of President Donald Trump.
Read moreBallard Partners, the firm dubbed “the Most Powerful Lobbyist in Trump’s Washington” ended its years-long contract with Turkey’s state-run Halkbank last week, the day after that bank’s indictment in a record-breaking money-laundering scheme.
Read moreA South Florida man implicated in the campaign-finance probe that has ensnared Ukrainian business associates of Rudy Giuliani turned himself in Wednesday to face criminal charges.
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Citing President Donald Trump, 2020 presidential hopeful Joe Biden unveiled a massive anticorruption plan Monday morning that includes constraints on election spending, preventing White House interference into Justice Department matters and barring foreign lobbying.
Read moreAnnouncing her plan to put a tax on excessive lobbying, Democratic presidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren said Wednesday that the Washington influence machine has better funding than Congress.
Read morePresidential hopeful Elizabeth Warren unveiled a plan Friday to kick lobbyists on Congress, saying she would fortify the independent agencies whose budgets Republicans have gutted so that lawmakers are less reliant on self-interested corporate outsiders.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday tossed out convictions against a one-time business partner of former national security adviser Michael Flynn who was accused of acting as a Turkish foreign agent.
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Three Congressional committees threatened Monday to subpoena the State Department over reports that President Donald Trump pressured Ukraine into investigating the son of his potential 2020 election opponent, former Vice President Joe Biden.
Read moreThe Department of Interior must face a lawsuit that skewers its administration of secretive White House advisory committee on trophy hunting, a federal judge ruled.
Read moreAmerica’s vaping industry has taken its fight to fend off regulation directly to President Trump’s doorstep, with a lobbying group twice booking annual meetings at his Washington hotel and e-cigarette maker Juul hiring two of his former White House officials.
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Political appointees in President Donald Trump’s Interior Department have weakened protections for Appalachia’s endangered crayfish to benefit the coal mining industry, environmentalists claim in a federal lawsuit.
Read moreHigh-profile Washington lawyer Greg Craig hugged his defense team with tears in his eyes Wednesday after a federal jury found him not guilty in a politically charged trial spun off the special counsel’s investigation of Russian influence in the 2016 election.
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Federal prosecutors came out swinging in closing arguments during the criminal trial against Greg Craig Tuesday, urging the jury to find the high-profile Washington attorney guilty of lying to the Justice Department about his work for Ukraine.
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Joe Biden entered the Democratic primary promising “from day one” to reject campaign cash from lobbyists. Yet hours after his April campaign kickoff, he former went to a fundraiser at the home of a lobbying executive.
Read moreA high-profile Washington lawyer accused of working on a secret campaign to sway America’s perception of Ukraine when it was cozy with the Kremlin faced a grueling cross-examination Thursday over a report that cost him his job at Skadden Arps.
Read moreA powerful Washington lawyer facing charges spun off from the Mueller probe testified in his own defense Wednesday, telling federal jurors that his work on behalf of Ukraine never crossed the line into foreign lobbying.
Read moreAttorneys for high-profile Washington – and Paul Manafort-tied – lawyer Greg Craig told a federal judge Tuesday that a close look at the federal statute requiring U.S. citizens to register as foreign agents for certain work done outside the United States reveals the ex-Skadden Arps lawyer had no obligation to tell the full truth to the Justice Department.
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