Paul Manafort failed to sway a federal judge Friday that, even if he should have registered as a foreign agent, the pro-Russia lobbying work at issue cannot sustain the money-laundering count he faces.
Read moreSpecial counsel Robert Mueller’s team on Friday outlined some of the evidence it will introduce during ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort’s trial in September.
Read moreButtressing the special counsel’s bid to lock up Paul Manafort ahead of trial, a prosecutor told a federal judge Tuesday that the evidence of witness tampering is clear.
Read moreA federal judge ordered special counsel Robert Mueller on Tuesday to identify the people he believes helped former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort hide his lobbying income.
Read moreNovartis said Wednesday its top lawyer is retiring over the Swiss pharmaceutical company’s relationship with a firm owned by U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen.
Read moreAs Hakan Atilla learns what sentence he must serve for helping Iran launder billions of dollars, Istanbul’s fragile markets will watch closely Wednesday for cues about the fate of the Turkish banker’s former employer.
Read more“There is no other way to say it,” AT&T CEO Randall Stephenson said in a companywide memo Friday, “AT&T hiring Michael Cohen as a political consultant was a big mistake.”
Read moreNot quite overshadowed by the half-million that embattled Trump attorney Michael Cohen is said to have gotten from a Russian oligarch, consulting work Cohen did last year for the telecommunications giant AT&T has drawn questions from Special Counsel Robert Mueller and Congress.
Read moreA prominent law enforcement lobbying group which represents all of California’s elected county sheriffs is putting its weight behind the Trump administration’s assault on the state’s sanctuary laws.
Read moreA federal indictment unsealed Monday claims the founder of Trina Health bribed a former Republican Alabama lawmaker in an effort to force the state’s largest insurer to cover the specialized diabetes treatment his clinics provided.
Read moreA closer look into EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s expenses revealed Thursday that the former Oklahoma attorney general rented a Capitol Hill condo co-owned by a prominent energy industry lobbyist.
Read moreA federal lawsuit filed by the National Rifle Association claims that Florida’s new law raising the legal age to purchase firearms imposes an “unequal and impermissible burden” on the constitutional rights of young adults.
Read moreThe National Rifle Association filed a federal lawsuit late Friday over Florida legislation that raises the age to buy guns to 21.
Read moreA northern Chicago suburb that saw a federal judge strike down its “right-to-work” ordinance faces a new legal challenge from a union member claiming his taxes unlawfully funded a lobbying group pushing for the measure.
Read moreThe Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence brought a federal complaint to obtain Justice Department records on potential ties between judicial nominees and gun-lobbying organizations, including the National Rifle Association.
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In the wake of the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history last week in Las Vegas, bipartisan legislation was announced in the U.S. House of Representatives on Tuesday to ban bump stocks and similar devices that increase the rate of fire when placed onto a semiautomatic rifle.
Read moreThe National Rifle Association on Thursday called for additional regulations on the device that allowed the Las Vegas shooter have the semi-automatic guns used in the worst mass shooting in U.S. history to function as fully automatic weapons.
Read moreAs repeal and withdraw have become increasingly familiar approaches touted in Washington lately, lobbyists for big agriculture are already anxious about President Donald Trump’s renegotiations of the North American Free Trade Agreement next year, hoping the trade pact will be kept in place.
Read moreA group of London’s financial lobbyists will head to Brussels on Wednesday for their first meeting with officials and stakeholders since Brexit talks began.
Read moreLobbyists will no longer be barred from giving gifts to Kentucky General Assembly members, after a federal judge struck down key provisions in the state’s ethics code, which had been considered one of the toughest in the country.
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