"to join the ticket. However, McCain reportedly personally refused the overtures, laying most further speculation to rest. Other Republicans that were occasionally mentioned as potential running mates include: 2004 Democratic Party vice presidential candidate selection This article discusses John Kerry's presidential campaign's vice-presidential candidate selection process that began after Kerry became the presumptive Democratic Party candidate for president of the United States of America in the 2004 election campaign. Kerry announced on July 6, 2004 that his choice for running mate was Senator John Edwards of North Carolina. The discussion of the possibilities is preserved below for historical interest: Some"
"do to the ongoing investigation. Senate Bill 68 was passed into law, but is expected to go before the Supreme Court of North Carolina for appeal. In 2017 Hise ""paid Parker Poe Adams and Bernstein law firm $7,700 in connection with a campaign finance audit by the state board of elections. Hise also paid his treasurer $9,000 for the audit."" As of 2018, the North Carolina Board of Elections and Ethics Enforcement had not commented on the matter. Hise, along with State Representative Josh Dobson, was forced to forfeit money received from the Pfizer Inc. Political Action Committee, along with"
"on financial disclosure forms. Melgen also donated a substantial amount of money to benefit Menendez's political campaigns, and prosecutors claim that $750,000 of those contributions were tied to personal benefits Menendez accepted. Menendez voluntarily stepped down as ranking member of the Foreign Relations Committee after his indictment. Menendez's trial began on September 6, 2017, before Judge William H. Walls of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey. On November 16, 2017, the judge declared a mistrial due to the jury's continuing inability to reach a unanimous verdict on any of the charges. On January 31, 2018,"
"a trial to last about two weeks. Hastert shut down his ""Keep Our Mission"" leadership PAC at the end of June 2015 and transferred $10,000 (the vast majority of the PAC's remaining funds) to a new legal defense fund, the J. Dennis Hastert Defense Trust. A Federal Elections Commission report lists the defense fund's address as a Sunapee, New Hampshire property owned by Republican donor and ex-Gerald Ford White House staffer James Rooney. On September 11, 2015, Judge Durkin granted a joint motion by the government and by Hastert to extend the deadline for filing pretrial motions for two weeks,"
"430. Newton was arrested in January 2013 on state campaign finance fraud charges. On January 16, 2015, Newton was convicted of three charges of ""illegal practices in campaign financing"" and acquitted on a charge of witness tampering. The jury deadlocked on two other counts of illegal practices in campaign financing and two counts of first-degree larceny, and a mistrial was declared on those four charges. On May 13, 2015, Newton was sentenced to three sentences of six months in jail, to run concurrently with each other, on the state charges. The state judge found that Newton received no personal financial"
"reimbursing his campaign slightly over $12,000. Following the Ethics Commission investigation, a state grand jury indicted Ard on ""seven counts of ethics violations over his mishandling of money during that 2010 race, including converting campaign funds for tickets to the SEC championship football game in Atlanta, buying clothes and a flat-screen TV and having a confidant dole out $100 bills from a paper bag."" On March 10, 2012, Ard was indicted, pleaded guilty, resigned from office, and sentenced all on the same day, an arrangement worked out by the Attorney General's Office, South Carolina State Law Enforcement Division, and Ard's"
"for alleged violations of campaign finance laws. On June 3, 2011, Edwards was indicted by a federal grand jury in North Carolina on six felony charges, including four counts of collecting illegal campaign contributions, one count of conspiracy, and one count of making false statements. After postponing the start of the trial while Edwards was treated for a heart condition in February 2012, Judge Catherine Eagles of the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina scheduled jury selection to begin on April 12, 2012. Edwards's trial began on April 23, 2012, as he faced up to 30"
"petitions forms at work to get Brown on the ballot during the closing days of the petition drive, when petitioners were scrambling to meet the deadline. Brown was accused by federal prosecutors of lying to the Federal Election Commission about donating $700,000 to her campaign and bilking the government by falsifying the number of meals her nonprofit fed to needy children, but her trial—in which Brown testified in her own defense and was subjected to a lengthy cross-examination—ended in a mistrial after the jury deadlocked 11-1. A new trial has been set to begin on October 9 and run for"
"of his campaign fund. Also during the trial, prosecuters released a document including ten pages of favors granted to former Senate President Pate Philip. Philip spoke with Larry Hall, who wore a hidden recorder and taped the conversations as a part of an undercover government investigation. Philip agreed to try to get Hall's sister a job with the secretary of state's office in exchange for Hall's fundraising activities. Prosecutors allege Hall gave $1,400 to Philip's campaign shortly after the conversation. Philip has been criticized for looking into the voter histories of students applying for legislative scholarships, which are funded by"
"On November 10, 2016, McCrory's campaign set up a legal defense fund in anticipation of a legal battle and potential recount. The campaign has cited ""grave concerns over potential irregularities"" regarding 90,000 votes from Durham County. McCrory conceded the race to Cooper on December 5. During a special session, after conceding defeat in the election, McCrory signed legislation into law that would reduce the power of North Carolina governorship. On December 30, 2016, a state judge temporarily blocked the law from going into effect, and a panel of judges extended the block on January 5, 2017. In November 2018, McCrory"
"on campaign contributions donation limit of $3,600. All three were fined the full amount. Tom Berryhill Thomas Charles Berryhill (born August 27, 1953) is a Republican politician in the United States. He formerly represented the 8th district in the California State Senate and served in the California State Assembly, representing the 25th district from December 2006 to December 2010. Senator Tom Berryhill was found guilty of money laundering by the California Political Practices Commission for transfering $40,000 to the Stanislaus County Republican Party and the San Joaquin County Republican Party who accepted the money and passed it on to the"
"After reviewing the case, the Attorney General issued a letter on December 22, 2008, stating there was no evidence to warrant further investigation and the matter was closed. The Attorney General was Jerry Brown, a Democrat and former Governor of California. Nielsen was also the largest taxpayer-funded gas card spender in the state legislature for 2010 costing $10,410.68 Jim Nielsen James Wiley Nielsen (born July 31, 1944 in Fresno, California) is an American politician from California currently serving in the California State Senate representing the 4th district. He is a Republican. Nielsen served on the Yolo County Republican Committee before"
"says there's got to be a lot of political motivation behind this."" Adultery remains a misdemeanor level crime in North Carolina. In 2008, Harrison helped dedicate the Wake County Public Safety Center in honor of Baker who had died in 2007. Harrison was deseated by Gerald Mauroka Baker on 6 November 2018 in United States elections, 2018 when he attempted a re-election for the fifth time. Harrison is a self-described conservative Republican. He has weighed in on multiple elections during his tenure as Sheriff, including an endorsement of Pat McCrory's 2008 gubernatorial campaign, and Senator Richard Burr in 2010. In"
"Mark Harris (North Carolina politician) Mark Harris (born April 24, 1966) is an American politician and pastor from the state of North Carolina. A Republican, he competed for in the United States House of Representatives in 2016 and narrowly lost. He ran again in 2018 and though initial tallies showed him winning, the results of the race became disputed. , the outcome of the election has not been certified, as state election officials continue to investigate alleged fraud. A meeting of the election board in order to further discuss the allegations is scheduled to occur before December 21, 2018. Harris"
"that the search was related to investigations of Sorenson's actions in the Bachmann and Paul campaigns. Sorenson resigned from his Iowa Senate office on October 2, 2013, after a special investigator appointed by the Iowa Supreme Court, Mark Weinhardt, found he likely violated ethics rules by taking money from political entities connected to former presidential candidates Michele Bachmann and Ron Paul, then denied he'd done so (Iowa Senate Ethics Report ). According to the report, Sorenson received a $25,000 check and a $73,000 electronic banking transfer from the Ron Paul campaign. Iowa Attorney General's Office spokesman Geoff Greenwood stated October"
"illegal payments from the Michele Bachmann (R MN) and Ron Paul (R TX) campaigns in the 2012 Republican Presidential primaries and that ""his denials of doing so constituted felonious misconduct in office."" He was sentenced to 15 months in prison after pleading guilty to one count of causing a federal campaign committee to falsely report its expenditures to the FEC and one count of obstruction of justice. Sorenson was first elected to the Iowa House in 2008, defeating incumbent Democrat Mark Davitt. Sorenson then ran for the Senate in 2010, defeating incumbent Democrat Staci Appel. A Republican, he served in"
"the most competitive"". On election day, Harris defeated McCready by 905 votes, but on November 27, 2018, the North Carolina State Board of Elections and Ethics Reform declined to certify the election results, citing voting irregularities involving absentee ballots. The irregularities became the subject of a criminal investigation. Outlets such as the Associated Press and ""FiveThirtyEight"" subsequently retracted calling the race, pending the ultimate decision of the state board of elections. On December 1, the chair of the state elections board resigned, saying: ""The investigation of criminal conduct and absentee voting fraud in the 2018 Republican primary and 2018 general"
"Republican candidates in the past, including Rudy Giuliani, George Pataki, and Al D'Amato. He resigned on June 23, 2009, following an indictment for alleged Honest services fraud delivered by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. In June 2009, he pleaded guilty to taking large sums of money from hospitals through a consulting firm while still a member of the New York State Assembly. He died on January 6, 2011, while serving a prison term in the Federal Correctional Complex, Butner in Butner, North Carolina. His appeal was never heard but his conviction was abated due to"
"one year of probation and a $9,500 fine. He began serving his 14-day sentence on November 26, 2018, at FCI Oxford in Oxford, Wisconsin, and was released 12 days later on December 7, 2018. The two criminal trials of Paul Manafort are the first cases brought to trial by the special counsel's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Manafort served as campaign chair for the Donald Trump 2016 presidential campaign from June 20 to August 19, 2016. In July 2017, the FBI conducted a raid of Manafort's home, authorized by search warrant under charges of interference in"
"in summer 2018. Mueller took over an existing money laundering investigation into former Trump campaign chairman Manafort. On October 30, 2017, a federal grand jury indicted Manafort and his associate Rick Gates on charges including conspiracy against the United States, conspiracy to launder money, failure to file reports of foreign bank and financial accounts, being an unregistered agent of foreign principal, false and misleading FARA statements, and false statements. Manafort's financial activities are also being investigated by the Senate and House intelligence committees, the New York Attorney General, and the Manhattan District Attorney. The Special Counsel will be able to"
"said that the featuring of three Prince George's County Democrats on the front of the mailer suggested that they all had endorsed Ehrlich and Steele, which was not the case. In 2009, it became known that Steele's former finance chairman, Alan B. Fabian, had reported to federal prosecutors that Steele used his 2006 Senate campaign fund to pay a by-then-defunct company, Brown Sugar Unlimited run by his sister, for ""catering/web services"" that were allegedly never performed. Fabian provided the information to federal prosecutors in 2008 during his plea negotiations on unrelated fraud charges (for which he was sentenced to 9"
"in Tarrant County, a former Democrat, who holds the filibuster record—43 hours—in the Texas Senate. In 1983, Mattox was indicted for commercial bribery and prosecuted by Travis County District Attorney Ronnie Earle, a Democrat close to the late Governor Ann Richards. Earle later prosecuted the Republican congressional leader Tom DeLay. Like the DeLay prosecution, the political background of the Mattox prosecution related to an attempt to conceal the delivery of corporate funds to an election campaign. Mattox had received a campaign contribution of $125,000 from his sister Janice, a Dallas lawyer. Janice Mattox in turn had obtained a similar amount"
"House Bill 998, ""a bill to study rural healthcare needs"", which would have implemented a study to explore expanding Medicaid in North Carolina under the Affordable Care Act. In 2017, a North Carolina activist filed two complaints with the North Carolina Board of Elections. The complaints accused Hise of allegedly committing a variety of campaign finance violations, including ""allegedly paying himself more than $10,000 from his campaign fund."" At the time he was also the chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Elections. After the State Board of Elections began investigating the accusations that Hise had broken campaign finance laws,"
"were used to reimburse the state following Merritt's findings. Les Merritt Leslie (""Les"") Merritt is a Republican politician from the U.S. state of North Carolina and a former North Carolina State Auditor, a position to which he was elected in 2004. Merritt was defeated by Democrat Beth Wood in the 2008 election as part of a Democratic sweep. Wood succeeded Merritt in January 2009. Shortly thereafter, Merritt joined with former FBI Agent Frank Perry to form the Foundation for Ethics in Public Service. Perry had also served as the lead investigator at the Auditor's Office. Merritt was executive director of"
"several other government officials in the largest campaign donation forfeitures in North Carolina history due to donations dated during the legislative session in 2017. Hise publicly stated afterwards, ""I did not receive contributions during session. I was informed by the State Board of Elections, along with over 40 other legislators from both parties, that Pfizer cut the checks during a special session of the General Assembly. The date they were received by my campaign was a legal date. As requested, I returned the contributions to State Board of Elections."" Hise lives in Spruce Pine with his wife Linn and twin"
"Thomas E. Wright Thomas Edward Wright (born August 7, 1955) was a Democratic member of the North Carolina House of Representatives who represented the state's eighteenth district, including constituents in New Hanover and Pender counties, from 1992 to 2008. An EMS instructor from Wilmington, North Carolina, Wright was serving his eighth term in the House when he was expelled from that chamber in 2008. A jury subsequently convicted him of corruption and embezzlement, sending him to jail for a 6-8 year term. In 2007, the North Carolina State Board of Elections launched an investigation of Wright's campaign finances. The board"
"came after the failure of intensive negotiations for a plea bargain agreement. The agreement would have meant that Edwards would have been required to plead guilty to three misdemeanor campaign finance law violations, in addition to a six-month prison sentence, but would have allowed Edwards to keep his law license. After delays, due to John Edwards' medical condition, jury selection for the trial began on April 12, 2012. Opening arguments began on April 23, 2012. A verdict (not guilty on one count and a mistrial on the remaining five) to the trial was reached on May 31, 2012. The trial"
"2018 omnibus spending bill, and claimed Pittenger was part of the ""Washington swamp"". Harris and McCready debated on October 10 on WBTV in Charlotte and October 17 at Spirit Square. After all the vote was tallied, Harris had a 905 vote lead over McCready, making the election the closest race in the district in over six decades. The North Carolina Democratic Party filed affidavits with the North Carolina Board of Elections claiming that Harris had used independent contractors to collect absentee ballots from voters. The North Carolina Board of Elections voted 9-0 on November 27 not to certify the election."
"decisively turned against Smith in the Democratic primary, and his opponent, Leroy Comrie, a former city councilman, won in a landslide. At his second trial, despite the delay due to the mistrial, Smith was convicted of all the corruption charges he faced on February 5, 2015, including conspiracy, wire fraud, travel act bribery, and extortion. The jury deliberated only briefly before returning with the guilty verdict. On July 1, 2015, Judge Kenneth M. Karas sentenced Smith to seven years in prison. As of August 2016, Smith was housed in the federal penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. In August 2008, Smith held"
"incumbent Scott Taylor is in a race targeted by the DCCC. This is one of only two GOP held seats that voted for Democrat Ralph Northam in 2017. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee supported Elaine Luria, a United States Naval Commander for the nomination. Roanoke Commonwealth's Attorney Donald Caldwell has been appointed as a special prosecutor to investigate claims that Taylor's aides forged signatures, including those of Delegate Glenn Davis and his wife, on Shaun Brown's petitions to make the ballot as an independent candidate. Taylor had already cut ties with his campaign manager when these irregularities came to light"
"Following the November 6, 2018, midterm elections in North Carolina's 9th congressional district, initial tallies put Harris 905 votes ahead of his Democratic competitor, Dan McCready. McCready conceded on the day after the election, but the state Democratic Party filed affidavits with the state's board of voters claiming that Harris had used independent contractors to collect absentee ballots from voters. The North Carolina Board of Elections voted 9-0 on November 27 not to certify the election. The Board of Elections subsequently opened an investigation which centered around the activities of McCrae Dowless. Dowless had been employed by numerous campaigns of"
"former campaign manager had met with the Senate Intelligence Committee. After the raid, Manafort switched legal firms to Miller & Chevalier, hiring Downing in August. Subsequently, Downing left Miller & Chevalier two weeks after taking on representation of Manafort, and continued to represent Manafort after leaving the firm. On October 30, 2017, Manafort and long-time business partner as well as Trump campaign associate Rick Gates were the first two individuals to be publicly indicted as a result of the 2017 special counsel investigation. Following Manafort's initial hearing, at which Manafort pleaded not guilty, Downing told the media that ""There is"
"on December 30, 2005. According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, he was released from prison in June 2009. Frank Ballance Frank Winston Ballance, Jr. (born February 15, 1942), American politician, is an attorney and a former Democratic member of the United States House of Representatives from 2003 to 2004, representing North Carolina's 1st congressional district. In 2004, Ballance pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering, and was sentenced to four years in prison, two years supervised release, and fined $10,000. Ballance was born in Windsor, North Carolina. He graduated from W. S."