[Download] "County of Los Angeles v. Shalala" by District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ~ Book PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: County of Los Angeles v. Shalala
- Author : District of Columbia Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals
- Release Date : January 01, 1999
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 105 KB
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Wald, Circuit Judge: The government charged Pornpimol "Pauline" Kanchanalak (aka Pornpimol Parichattkal) and Duangnet "Georgie" Kronenberg with a scheme to disguise illegal hard money contributions and soft money donations from foreign nationals and corporations to national and state political committees. Defendants were also alleged to have caused political committees to file reports with the Federal Election Commission ("FEC") falsely identifying lawful permanent residents as the source of funds that actually originated with foreign nationals and corporations in violation of 18 U.S.C. §Â§ 2 (b), 1001. The government argued that § 441e of the Federal Election Campaign Act ("FECA") prohibits any infusion of money from foreign nationals into federal, state, and local elections and that section 104.8 of the FEC regulations requires that political committees report the true source of their contributions and donations. Defendants asserted that as to both hard and soft money, political committees were not required to report the true sources of their receipts, and as to soft money, FECA did not restrict such donations by foreign nationals. They also argued that the FEC reporting regulation could not reasonably be read to require disclosures of the original sources of soft money receipts.