The retiring Democrat has entered negotiations for future employment with a lobbying firm, an energy company and a nonprofit that advocates for the state run oil company of Azerbaijan. A country with a checkered track record on human rights.
Continue readingLobbyist to plead guilty, may provide information on lawmakers, despite ethics committee exoneration
In case you needed a dose of the absurd for your Monday take a look at the case of ex-lobbyist... View Article
Continue readingOn the House Ethics Committee Leak
Last week, the cable news networks were blanketing their shows with stories about the leaking of a report from the... View Article
Continue readingWeekly Media Roundup – May 15, 2009
Here are a few of the more interesting media mentions of Sunlight and our friends and grantees from this week:... View Article
Continue readingPMA Group Brought Large Return on Investment for Clients
In 2008, the PMA Group was hired by forty clients as their lone lobbying firm. These clients, largely seeking earmarks,... View Article
Continue readingDecline in Campaign Fund Fortunes for PMA Linked Trio
Three lawmakers closely linked to the PMA Group lobbying and earmarks investigation have seen their collective campaign fundraising drop by... View Article
Continue readingThe Appropriate Culture of Corruption
The New York Times reports today on what could be the next great lobbying scandal. After his house and offices... View Article
Continue readingPMA Group, Clients Flood House Appropriators with Cash
For the long serving gentleman from Indiana, Rep. Pete Visclosky, more than $1.3 million. For the ranking member, Rep. C.W.... View Article
Continue readingPMA Group Investigation
After a series of articles noting the November FBI raid of the offices of the PMA Group, a Washington lobby... View Article
Continue readingCampaign Cash Coincidences? Murtha Gives Earmarks to Murtha Donors
Lobbyists, campaign cash and earmarks: Roll Call's Tory Newmyer, with help Taxpayers for Common Sense, shows ($$) the correlations:
Every private entity that Rep. John Murtha (D-Pa.) favored with an earmark in this year’s defense bill recently has given political money to the lawmaker, according to an analysis of House Appropriations and federal elections records by Roll Call and Taxpayers for Common Sense. PACs and employees of those 26 groups together have contributed $413,250 to Murtha since the beginning of 2005. He collected nearly a quarter of the sum — $100,750 — in the two weeks leading up to March 16, the original deadline for lawmakers to file their earmark requests.Murtha's not alone in this. Anu ran contribution numbers from earmark recipients favored by Rep. James Moran, a fellow appropriator, for the current election cycle: companies that are in line to receive some $24 million in earmarks contributed $75,800 to Moran's campaign committee. We didn't even get around to running the numbers for his leadership PAC yet. [Update: After running the PAC numbers, Anu found that contributions figure rises to $99,900...] Continue reading
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