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A "conduit" by any other name: O'Donnell case goes to appeal

By Richard Binder

Federal prosecutors argued in a brief filed on Monday before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that Pierce O'Donnell did violate the Federal Election Campaign Act by contributing $26,000 to a presidential candidate in the names of 13 other people, and that the Act addresses this in Section 441f.

Section 441f reads: "No person shall make a contribution in the name of another person or knowingly permit his name to be used to effect such a contribution, and no person shall knowingly accept a contribution made by one person in the name of another person."

Prosecutors have brought three charges against O'Donnell, and the first two -- that O'Donnell had conspired to contribute in the names of others, and had contributed more than $10,000 in the names of others -- are based on that section of the Act.

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Full post as published by Legal Pad | LA on September 16, 2009 (boomark / email).