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Campaign Finance & Lobbying Compliance
By a split vote of 3-3, the Federal Election Commission (FEC) dismissed a complaint over whether a meeting involving Donald Trump Jr. and others with two Russian nationals at Trump Tower during the 2016 campaign was an illegal in-kind contribution from a foreign national. (Lachlan Markey,
WHITE report FALLOUT The fight to keep COCKTAILS TO-GO CORREIA: ‘I will be vindicated’
05/17/2021 07:28 AM EDT
SHAKEN, NOW STIRRING That margarita delivered to your doorstep with dinner is destined to go away when the pandemic state of emergency ends unless a group of restaurant and business advocates gets their way.
Restaurateurs and business groups are planning a virtual rally today to push for a two-year extension of legislation authorizing cocktails to-go and capping third-party delivery-app fees at 15%. The original bill was opposed by package stores last year.
They also want a grant program for businesses that opened in 2020 and have struggled to access state and federal aid, and to compel insurance companies to pay business interruption claims. State Sen. Diana DiZoglio, who s co-hosting today s event, has filed all four as Senate budget amendments.
BOSTON If I m doing something wrong, come and get me.
Jasiel Correia II issued that challenge in a documentary chronicling his rise to power as mayor of Fall River. And the federal government did just that.
A jury of Correia s peers, after four days of deliberations, found him guilty Friday of 21 of 24 federal counts of wire fraud, tax fraud, extortion and extortion conspiracy.
Correia rose to power in Fall River as a self-styled entrepreneur who could run city government like a business, selling voters overinflated claims of success. But in his business, he scammed investors out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, blowing nearly all of it on what prosecutors called a shameless luxury spending spree.