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Ex-car czar Rattner settles N.Y. probe for $10 million	31.12.2010	LA Times: Top News
The investment banker who helped lead the Obama administration's auto industry overhaul has agreed to pay $10 million to settle influence-peddling allegations in New York.
O’Donnell: Spending accusations are ‘thug’ tactics	30.12.2010	NewsTrust Yahoo Pipes Feed
Failed Senate candidate O'Donnell calls campaign spending accusations a 'thug-politic tactic' Failed U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell said Thursday that accusations she misspent campaign funds are politically motivated and stoked by disgruntled former campaign workers. The Delaware Republican appeared on several network morning shows to defend herself a day after The Associated Press reported federal [...]
Calif. officials freeze money from firm in probe	30.12.2010	SFGate: Business & Technology
Calif. officials freeze money from firm in probe
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What’s Wrong, Really, With Using Campaign Funds For Personal Purposes?	30.12.2010	The Moderate Voice
I’m not a big fan of Christine O’Donnell, the Tea Party favorite and unsuccessful candidate for the Senate from Delaware. Indeed, whenever one of her “I’m you” commercials appeared on my TV, I got up and shouted: “No you’re not.” But whatever the merits of recent reports that say she may be under investigation for [...]
O'Donnell: Spending accusations are 'thug' tactics	30.12.2010	Twincities.com: News
BALTIMORE — Failed U.S. Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell said today that accusations she misspent campaign funds are politically motivated and stoked by disgruntled former campaign workers, defending herself a day after the disclosure of a criminal investigation into her spending.
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WPP Buys Obama’s Campaign Agency Blue State Digital	30.12.2010	techCrunch
WPP Buys Obama’s Campaign Agency Blue State Digital
Cheers and Jeers: Thursday	30.12.2010	Daily Kos
From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE... And Then Things Got Kinda Nutty Republicans, I'm afraid a tut-tut is in order. Not to put too fine a point on it, but...during the third quarter of 2010 you behaved rather badly. You nixed a defense authorization bill for the first time in 48 years. You blocked the DISCLOSE Act, which would've added a layer of transparency to political campaigns. You soiled yourselves over a proposed community gathering place in lower Manhattan. (Can't have those scary American Muslims doing their scary American peace-mongering now, can we?) One of your congressmen insisted, with no proof whatsoever, that the biggest crisis facing America was "terror babies." Really? Terror babies? Oh, and you voted against an extension of unemployment benefits (and threatened to do it again in December unless billionaires got their tax cuts). A minor bit of tweaking to rein in Wall Street abuses was too much for you, so you also voted against the Dodd-Frank bill. Your RNC chairman said ...
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Christine O'Donnell's campaign finances investigated	30.12.2010	Chicago Tribune: Nation
Christine O'Donnell's campaign finances investigated
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Wealthy urged to donate tax savings	30.12.2010	Boston Globe: Business
Wealthy urged to donate tax savings
Reform Jersey Now discloses list of donors	30.12.2010	The Daily Record: Local
A New Jersey-based advocacy group with ties to some of Gov. Chris Christie's top advisers says it has raised nearly $624,000 this year to push the governor's reform agenda.
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Thumbing ’10: Another year of ups, downs	30.12.2010	Salt Lake Tribune
Updated Dec 30, 2010 01:01AM MDT 2010 is history, and herewith we thumb the ups and downs of the year: THUMB UP: It ain’t over ‘til … • A committee of learned economists soberly declared in September that the Great Recession officially ended in June 2009. Indeed, the U.S. and Utah economies have begun to grow again, though feebly. But unemployment remains stubbornly high, and until more folks land jobs, you won’t convince them that the recession is dead. THUMB DOWN: Mad tea party • The anti-government tea party movemen... ...
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Christine O'Donnell's campaign finances investigated	30.12.2010	LA Times: Top News
The U.S. attorney's office is reviewing a complaint by a watchdog group accusing the former Republican Senate candidate in Delaware of using campaign money to pay personal expenses. Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of Delaware Republican Christine O'Donnell to determine if the former Senate candidate broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation.
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Rich urged to 'give back' their tax cuts	30.12.2010	Twincities.com: Nation
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Upset the federal government has extended tax cuts for the rich, three professors at Yale and Cornell universities have created a website that encourages the wealthy to give their tax savings to charities and send a political message in the process.
'State of Corruption'	30.12.2010	Chicago Tribune: Opinion
'State of Corruption'
WPP closes in on Blue State Digital purchase	30.12.2010	Financial Times: Media
The world's largest marketing holding company is close to acquiring the digital agency that led Barack Obama's groundbreaking online fundraising campaign in the 2008 US presidential election
11 big political questions for 2011	30.12.2010	Washington Post

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Christine O'Donnell's use of campaign funds 'under investigation by the FBI' \| Richard Adams	30.12.2010	The Guardian -- World Latest
Christine O'Donnell, the ill-fated Tea Party favourite, reported to be under investigation for misuse of campaign donations Christine O'Donnell, the Tea Party star with a colourful past, is said to be under federal investigation for misusing donations made by supporters during her failed election campaigns. The Associated Press reports that a criminal probe has been opened to examine whether O'Donnell broke the law by using campaign funds to pay for personal expenses during the Delaware Republican's attempts to win a seat in the US Senate. Quoting a "person with with knowledge of a federal campaign-finance investigation," who it says could not be named in order to protect the identity of a client, AP reporters Ben Nuckols and Mattew Barakat said O'Donnell's case has been assigned to two federal prosecutors and two FBI agents in Delaware but has not been brought before a grand jury. Accusations of financial irregularities have dogged O'Donnell for months, even before O'Donnell shot to ...
US authorities probe Delaware Republican Christine O'Donnell's campaign spending	30.12.2010	Chicago Tribune: Nation
US authorities probe Delaware Republican Christine O'Donnell's campaign spending
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APNewsBreak: US authorities probe Delaware Republican Christine O'Donnell's campaign spending	30.12.2010	Star Tribune: Nation

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Feds probe Christine O'Donnell's campaign spending	30.12.2010	AP National
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Federal authorities have opened a criminal investigation of Delaware Republican Christine O'Donnell to determine if the former Senate candidate broke the law by using campaign money to pay personal expenses, according to a person with knowledge of the investigation....
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