Sentence examples for criminal campaign from inspiring English sources

This all suggests Trump could become a target of a very serious criminal campaign finance investigation.

One or both might take the 5th — which many Americans would interpret as evidence one or both violated criminal campaign laws.

— A federal judge on Thursday rejected former Senator John Edwards's request to dismiss criminal campaign finance charges against him, all but ensuring that Mr. Edwards will go to trial in January.

Although for most crimes ignorance of the law is no excuse, criminal campaign finance violations must be "willful," which means the government must prove the defendant knew he was breaking the law.

This also has profound implications for Mr. Trump because he is personally implicated in these deals, as are the entities that fueled his business and political success, and Mr. Cohen's testimony could support criminal campaign finance charges against those involved.

Mr. Cohen's testimony is substantial, powerful evidence that President Trump understood he had a liability to Mr. Cohen from the beginning of his presidency and that Mr. Trump acted with the requisite intent to be subjected to prosecution for criminal campaign finance violations.

Mr Edwards now speculates optimistically that his persecutor's political and legal troubles (Mr DeLay is stuck in a criminal campaign-finance case) will help him win again.

So this payment — like the other one, but even more so — appears to be all about his candidacy, a crucial element in making this a criminal campaign-finance violation.

In a case that is the subject of a petition currently in front of the US supreme court, five Wisconsin prosecutors carried out a deep investigation into what they suspected were criminal campaign-finance violations by the campaign committee of Scott Walker, Wisconsin governor and former Republican presidential candidate.

When Mr Bo was the party boss of Chongqing and launched the "singing red songs and hard crackdown on criminals" campaign to boost his credentials, Mr Zhou showed up in the city in 2010 to sing its leader's praises.

The report raised questions about whether criminal or campaign finance laws were violated.