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This week the Supreme Court gave the green light to stemming the tide of dark money being pumped into our political system. Last month the United States District Court for the District of Columbia made a sound and rational decision to help protect our democracy from an onslaught of dark money as we approach the [...]

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US President Donald Trump’s former attorney Michael Cohen pleaded guilty on Tuesday to five counts of tax fraud, one count of making a false statement to a financial institution, one count of causing an unlawful corporate contribution and one count of making an excessive campaign contribution. According to the plea agreement, the maximum term of [...]

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The trial of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort began on Tuesday. The indictment alleges that Manafort and Richard Gates, a former deputy chair of the Trump campaign and liaison to the Republican National Committee who has already plead guilty to the charges, acted as unregistered agents of Ukraine and Victor Yanukovyk, the President of [...]

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Vote Leave , an advocacy group spearheading the UK’s withdrawal from the EU, was fined £61,000 and referred to authorities by the country’s Electoral Commission on Tuesday for breaking electoral laws during the 2016 referendum. In an official statement , the Commission stated that it had obtained evidence that Vote Leave exceeded its legal spending limit of  £7 [...]

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