She cannot legally contribute more than $2,000.
Ms. Heinz Kerry, meanwhile, cannot legally contribute more than $2,000 to his campaign, but she could be a secret weapon of sorts.
Although in many countries companies may not legally contribute directly to candidates running for public office, their executives and stockholders may do so as individuals.
The government said that those people who wrote the checks were then reimbursed by people who were the real donors and who could not legally contribute for a variety of reasons.
In 2009, the source told the bureau that he had an acquaintance who had recently provided $10,000 to the Liu campaign and "had to 'move money around' because he could not legally contribute money in a single lump sum".
Without the ceiling, the Court explained, a person could legally "contribute massive amounts of money to a particular candidate through the use of unearmarked contributions to political committees likely to contribute to that candidate, or [make] huge contributions to the candidate's political party".
"If Enron did indeed pay funds to Mr. Reed on behalf of the Bush campaign," Mr. Conyers wrote, "it may well violate the Federal Election Campaign Act, which prevents corporations from donating funds to a campaign and limits the amount of money that a corporate political action committee may legally contribute".
The informer said that an acquaintance of his, a large Liu donor, was moving "money around" because he could not legally contribute money in a single lump sum, and Mr. Liu "was aware" that he was trying to "conceal the nature" of his contributions, a court filing shows.
"I could work legally and contribute to the American society above board without any fear of recrimination".
Houston and Atlanta stand with nearly 100 cities nationwide in support of executive action, which would allow millions of immigrants to work legally and contribute to our nation's economy, while keeping families together.
