Already the #1 corporate political contributor at the federal level, Wal-Mart is getting into the state money game in a big way - particulary in California.  This article in BusinessWeek (via MSN) gets into what they're going shopping for.

Dozens of lawmakers are sending contributions back to Abramoff and his clients in hopes of removing any links between the two. Two of the latest to give money back are from the Big Sky State: Sen. Max Baucus (D-MT) returned $18,892 for using a...

A story on Law.com sheds a little more light on the eight corporations indicted alongside DeLay and his associates in the TRMPAC case. Four have settled, four are fighting the charges. My favorite passage from the article:David Sheppard, a sol...

The Houston Chronicle (registration required) reported that Travis County prosecutors have announced that charges against Diversified Collection Services, Inc., one of the eight companies indicted for making illegal political contributions t...