Archive

Category: Money in Politics

Federal Authorities Raided Trump Fundraiser’s Office in Money Laundering Probe

Stefanie Keenan/Getty Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. This story was originally published by ProPublica.  Federal authorities raided the office of Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy last summer, seeking records related to his dealings with foreign officials and Trump administration associates, according to a sealed search warrant obtained by ProPublica. Agents were…

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Just Had the Perfect Response to People Who Think She’s a “Pretty Idiot”

Dan Herrick/ZUMA Wire Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) doesn’t mince words. In an interview published Sunday in The New Yorker, the 29-year-old congresswoman took aim at her critics, whose attacks, she says, are rising to the level of “ravenous hysteria.”  What has made her such a target,…

The New Chief Campaign Finance Regulator Has a Plan to Make Her Agency Matter for the First Time in Years

Looking for news you can trust?Subscribe to our free newsletters. Ellen Weintraub, the sole Democratic commissioner on the Federal Election Commission, just became chairwoman of the agency in January and she’s already trying to shake things up at her “dysfunctional” agency. The FEC chairmanship, which rotates among the commissioners each year, is mostly a ceremonial…