Posted on 08/06/2010 9:19:44 AM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
Paul Magliocchetti, president of the lobbying firm PMA Group Inc. of Arlington, Virginia, was arrested on August 5 and charged with using friends and family to make illegal campaign contributions in order to skirt federal campaign finance laws.
His firm has been under investigation since 2009.
In a statement the Justice Department alleged, "Magliocchetti orchestrated a scheme to make hundreds of thousands of dollars in illegal conduit and corporate federal campaign contributions in an effort to enrich himself and PMA by increasing the firm's influence and prestige."
Magliocchetti, a former Democratic aide on the U.S. House of Representatives defense appropriations subcommittee, represented firms in the defense industry...
Read the rest at Publiusforum.com...
You gotta work pretty hard to get noticed.
A republican, on the other hand...
Gee, what a surprise. In other news, the sun rose in the east this morning and is expected to set in the west.
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