Campaign Finance

Missouri: Greitens Lied to State Ethics Commission, Took Charity Donor List, Report Says by Jack Suntrup and Kurt Erickson for St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Elections

Wisconsin: Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker Is Sending 671,000 Families an Election-Year Check. Democrats Call It Bribery by Jeff Stein (Washington Post) for Chicago Tribune

Ethics

Hawaii: Why No One Wants to Blow the Whistle on Sexual Misconduct by Anita Hofschneider for Honolulu Civil Beat

Pennsylvania: Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski Co-Defendant Jim Hickey Sentenced to 18 Months in Prison by Peter Hall for Allentown Morning Call

South Carolina: Bills Target Corrupt SC Lawmakers, Lobbyists Who Use Their Posts for Profit by John Monk for The State

Lobbying

National: Trump’s Appointees Pledged Not to Lobby After They Leave. Now They’re Lobbying. By Derek Kravitz and Alex Mierjeski for ProPublica

California: Union, Lawyers Spar Over Wildfire ‘Shadow lobbying’ at California Capitol by Taryn Luna for Sacramento Bee

Oklahoma: Pruitt’s Coziness with Lobbyists Includes Secretly Buying a House with One by Hiroko Tabuchi and Steve Eder for New York Times