Earlier this year Richardson had to deal with allegations that he directed bond program contracts to a campaign contributor.
He'd met with savings-and-loan regulators on behalf of a friend and campaign contributor, Charles Keating, who later went to prison.
McCain had attended meetings with savings and loan regulators investigating his friend and campaign contributor Charles Keating, who later went to prison.
Another well-known resident and campaign contributor is David L. Sokol, who chaired several subsidiaries of Berkshire Hathaway before resigning last year after controversial stock purchases.
On Thursday, Ms. Lee testified for a second day in Manhattan federal court at the trial of Jia "Jenny" Hou, Mr. Liu's former campaign treasurer, and Xing Wu "Oliver" Pan, a longtime campaign contributor.
The large unions are also the primary contributor to Democratic campaign coffers.
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Goldman Sachs was, afterall, the top Wall Street contributor to the Romney campaign.
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The Senate Ethics Committee cleared McCain in 1991 but said that he showed poor judgment in his efforts for Keating, who had been a major contributor to McCain's campaign.
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"Republicans wanted an ideas guy like Newt Gingrich to be president so badly that at times we even turned to Newt Gingrich, a fatally flawed candidate, " said Alex Castellanos, a CNN contributor who advised Romney's campaign in 2008.
He is believed to have been a significant contributor to Estrada's presidential campaign, and his connections to the Democratic Party will no doubt come in handy as Estrada's foreign-policy advisers try to wrangle a state visit to Washington later this year.
With job creation the top issue this campaign season, and outsourcing being blamed as a big contributor to the high unemployment rate, Democrats saw the bill as an election-year winner.
One of the exceptions granted was to the late ambassador to Switzerland, Larry Lawrence, who was also a major contributor to the Democratic Party and to the 1992 Clinton campaign.
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