OAKLAND — Nearly six months after Sheng Thao took office, she still owed tens of thousands of dollars to the campaign manager who had helped deliver her a victory. Long-established state law prohibits politicians from using public funds to finance election campaigns, but in newly released records, Thao’s top staffer said her boss had considered
California’s political watchdog organization is slapping former Assemblymember Evan Low with a $106,000 fine for 23 counts of violating state campaign finance laws — allegations that include using his tech nonprofit to pay actor Alec Baldwin more than $227,000 to appear at an event for the group and a fundraiser for Low, which investigators said
California’s political watchdog organization is slapping former Assemblymember Evan Low with a $106,000 fine for 23 counts of violating state campaign finance laws — allegations that include using his tech nonprofit to pay actor Alec Baldwin more than $227,000 to appear at an event for the group and a fundraiser for Low, which investigators said
Several nonprofit groups across the country are suing the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a bid to restore funding tied to providing legal representation for roughly 26,000 unaccompanied children in the United States, days after the Trump administration moved to cancel such contracts. The federal lawsuit announced Wednesday, March 26, was filed