Today's roundup includes an FBI sting on a California politician accused of taking contributions to push film tax credit legislation.
One, James M. McLarnon, was accused of soliciting campaign contributions in return for jobs in the department; the other, John A. Inglese, was charged with demanding $15,000 from a job applicant.
This time it was in a case that led to the indictment of one of his fund-raisers, David D'Amiano, who is accused of soliciting campaign contributions in exchange for government favors.
Correction: September 14, 2005, Wednesday An article on Thursday about the political corruption trial of Assemblyman Clarence Norman Jr. of Brooklyn misspelled the surname of a lobbyist for the New York State Association of Service Stations and Repair Shops, from whom Mr. Norman is accused of having solicited contributions beyond the state limit.
Whereas U.S. tech giants stand accused of making lower contributions to national coffers as a result of how they structure their businesses.
The indictment accused Mr. Edwards of misusing campaign contributions and of making false statements, among other things.
The remaining counts, misdemeanors, accused him of improperly making contributions as a foreign citizen.
On his blog, Powazek.com, he accused Mr. Cloutier and Mr. Minor of minimizing his contributions to the new and old versions of JPG.
In 1992, a former lobbyist accused the company of making contributions to state legislators in the names of its employees, an illegal tactic known as bundling.
The governor's Democratic challenger, William E. Curry Jr., accused Mr. Rowland of accepting political contributions -- since returned -- from the Enron Corporation in exchange for a loan that cost the state $200 million.
