Capital Crimes

In These Times by Conor Kenny | Aug. 1, 2006 (Special Report)
How our current campaign finance system breeds political corruption

Not surprisingly, many from the ranks of BushÂ’s Pioneers and Rangers would end up on the wrong side of the law in the current bribery scandals. A year and a half after the presidentÂ’s second inauguration, at least nine of his fundraisers find themselves under investigation, indictment or convicted of state or federal crimes; five of them for offenses specifically related to their political activity or exploiting the access that came with it. Full Story »

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Subjects: Politics
Topics: Campaign Reform
Member Tags: US congress, campaign finance reform, lobbyists, Washington
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Posted by: Posted by Tracy Van Slyke - Aug 1, 2006 - 4:33 PM PDT
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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008

Interesting report, but too few independent sources to confirm its accuracy. The author may well be right, but I would like to hear from others as well. Campaign finance is an important and complex issue, and I'd like to understand it better, by looking at it through a variety of viewpoints.

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 by Lewyn Li - Oct. 1, 2008

An excellent piece on how current laws on campaign finance are by-passed by cunning and secretive lobbyists. The report on "bundlers" is particularly illuminating and disturbing. Some of the evidence in the piece could have been better sourced, and the piece is a little long. All in all, a good piece of journalism.

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