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George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman who was named in the Mueller report, was accused of conspiring to conceal more than $3.5 million in political donations.

New York had a historic opportunity to break the tight grip of special interests and big money in our elections, take a giant step towards ending the era of dysfunction in Albany and empower everyday New Yorkers by making their voices heard through fundamental changes to our campaign finance policies.

The nine appointees on the jury-rigged Public Campaign Finance Commission, tapped by the governor and legislative leaders, are doing their job as expected, crafting a scheme full of incumbent-friendly booby traps, loopholes, poison pills and trap doors. Given no resources and no staff by the elected

ALBANY — The commission charged with revamping campaign and election laws voted Monday to make it harder for minor parties to secure a place on the ballot in New York state. The nine-member Public Campaign Financing Commission — tasked with creating a $100 million public matching funds program

The episode again raises the question of how to think about lawyers who take on unpopular clients.

On Tuesday, the Justice Department announced that businessman George Nader, along with a California payment processing executive Ahmad “Andy” Khawaja and six others, have been indicted as part of an alleged conspiracy to conceal excessive campaign contributions to a presidential candidate. The candidate is not mentioned in the indictment by name, but legal experts have [

After a Republican bragged about cramming ‘Dem garbage’ into certain districts, a grassroots campaign has given the power to redraw political maps to the people