secret donation

It has two parts: patriot dollars and the secret donation booth.

This has led to claims of large secret donations, and questions about whether such groups should be required to disclose their donors.

If one spends too much effort pondering giving, one will scheme to have even secret donations made public so that you might be praised.

The Supreme Court would be hard pressed to explain why a secret ballot is constitutional and a secret donation is not.

The agency money was supplemented by secret donations from United States corporations doing business in the Philippines, including Coca-Cola.

In his memoirs, Blair criticised Dromey for calling for an inquiry into the way Labour accepted secret donations at the time of the 2005 election.

According to Ottawa-based Democracy Watch: "Government integrity continues to be undermined by loopholes that allow secret donations to some candidates."

"We're free of all those vested interests - all the corporate lobbying, all the kick-backs and secret donations and the rest of it," she said.

Since then, the Justice Department and Congressional investigations have begun to focus on whether Democratic Party fund-raisers were used by the Chinese Government to make secret donations.

So there is breaking-and-decorating, proffering-with-embarrassment (as in most retirement presentations) and whitemailing (as in threatening to reveal to his enemies a mobster's secret donations, for example, to charity).

No American construction company, for example, had a prayer of competing for huge Government contracts with Japanese companies that propped the faction up with millions of dollars in secret donations.

Attack advertising funded by secret donations to opaque political groups is having a dramatic impact on American politics, after controversially being made legal by the US Supreme Court in 2010.

Foreign religious groups use secret donations "to attract Chinese into illegal activities," she said, and their secret missionaries seek to "undermine the stability of the country and the running of the official church."

The secret donation of money is a huge problem, sure, by all means demand better disclosure rules, but the real underlying issue is that Congress is gerrymandered to maximise incumbency by both major political parties.

The only evident blot on his record is his role as a willing helper in channeling a secret donation of $1 million in arms to Nicaraguan contras at a time that Congress had prohibited such aid.

Secret donations were a staple of politics before Watergate, when President Richard M. Nixon kept hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash from wealthy Republican donors stashed in a White House safe.

Last year, when German prosecutors investigated millions of dollars of secret donations to former Chancellor Helmut Kohl, the trail led to Liechtenstein, a principality the size of Fort Wayne, Ind.

In the last week, besieged by leaks to the press, he suddenly recalled receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in secret donations and loans from Recruit at a critical time in his bid to become Prime Minister.

Mr. Kohl told a Berlin radio station today that it was "completely unacceptable" to make public any Stasi files containing records of telephone conversations in which he is said to have alluded to the secret donations or their source.

He was the first foreign Master of Foxhounds in Britain and had acquired a reputation of grace and generosity after making many secret donations to both persons in need and museums as well as Cultural Organisations.

He did not address the opposition's charges that he had financed his presidential election campaign with secret donations from Mr. Roh's slush fund, and he did not specify exactly what he had done that had been wrong.

The details are as vivid as the unblushing memos in the Tower Commission report, as devastating as the flow charts showing how Lieut. Col. Oliver North squeezed secret donations from foreign clients for the contras.

According to his own testimony before the joint Congressional committee investigating the matter, he assisted in arranging a secret donation of more than $1 million in military equipment to the Nicaraguan rebels at a time when a Congressional prohibition on contra aid was in effect.

It was precisely because he was Mr. Kohl's protege, and because he himself also admitted taking secret donations, that Wolfgang Schauble, the former chancellor's immediate successor as party leader, was obliged to quit last month after just over a year at the helm.