Vendor’s Delay in Depositing Contributions Has DNC Seeking FEC Advice

2022-07-08 17:02:20

WASHINGTON — Trouble with a longtime “caging” vendor has the Democratic National Committee and its senatorial campaign arm asking the Federal Election Commission whether they can retain and use contributions deposited after the 10-day deadline mandated by agency regulation. In... Read More

Congress

Congressman Convicted of Accepting Illegal Foreign Campaign Contribution

2022-03-25 18:00:50

by Tom Ramstack

WASHINGTON — Nebraska’s longest-serving member of Congress was convicted Thursday of concealing illegal campaign contributions received from a Nigerian billionaire. The jury in Los Angeles decided that on at least two occasions Republican Rep. Jeff Fortenberry lied to FBI agents... Read More

Justice

Fortenberry Accused in Indictment of Lying to FBI

2021-10-19 22:10:21

by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON — Nine-term Rep. Jeff Fortenberry, R-Neb., has been indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of lying to the FBI and concealing information from federal agents investigating campaign contributions illegally made to him by a Nigerian billionaire. The... Read More

2020 Elections

NewDem Action Fund Makes Last Push Contributions In Name of Party Unity

2020-10-31 14:15:34

by Dan McCue

WASHINGTON - Over the course of the 2020 election cycle, the NewDem Action Fund has backed 31 congressional candidates by either adding them to its "watch list" or fully endorsing them. But on Friday night came word the fund, the... Read More