Sentences with phrase «city ran a fund»

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Reshma Saujani is a former hedge fund lawyer, New York City deputy public advocate and the first Indian - American woman to run for Congress (she lost a primary race in 2010).

Techrockies ran a brief article on Infrascale's funding from Carrick Capital partners and acquisition «Salt Lake City - based Eversync, which developed cloud - based...

The troubled Chinese insurer that owns New York City's Waldorf Hotel is receiving a $ 9.6 billion bailout from a government - run fund to shore up its finances.

Thanks to initial funding from Trust for London, we ran a project with City Gateway (a women's and youth charity in the London borough of Tower Hamlets) and other local partners, including schools, careers advisors and early years providers, aimed at recruiting young men to new, male - friendly childcare courses.

Running June 9 — 11 (12 — 8 pm daily) at Boston City Hall Plaza, the Jimmy Fund Scooper Bowl is in its 27th year of raising money to support cancer treatment and research at Dana - Farber Cancer Institute.

De Blasio is defending the privately - funded non-profit organizations tied to his administration after a government watchdog group, Common Cause New York, demanded an investigation, saying he js making a mockery of the city's campaign finance laws and may be running afoul of the City Charcity's campaign finance laws and may be running afoul of the City CharCity Charter.

There are five pension funds in New York City, which, unlike the state pension fund, are run by boards of trustees comprised of elected and appointed officials and union representatives.

Trump has threatened to veto a massive omnibus spending package if it includes money for the Gateway tunnel project in New York City, complicating the outlook for the $ 1 trillion - plus spending measure, which House Speaker Paul Ryan and U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell want to pass before government funding runs out on March 23.

Some of those who have already announced, filed a City campaign fund, or told someone they were running who then told me are Assemblyman Felix Ortiz (D - Brooklyn), Mark Gjonaj (D - Bronx), Peter Abbate (D — Brooklyn) and Francisco Moya (D — Queens).

Read a little bit into the federal investigation into how she ran slush funds in the city council.

While I was doing that, Chris Quinn was using a corrupt slush fund to park taxpayer dollars in phony charities to buy political support and running the City Council budget in a way that rewarded her friends and punished those who disagreed with her.»

«The 6th District and America need to stop big corporate money from privatizing our democracy, which means public funding for public elections as we have in NYC and a DISCLOSE act so anonymous money from billionaires doesn't buy our government,» said Green, who is the author of Who Runs Congressand Losing Our Democracy, as well as the author of the multiple matching funds for small donors part of the City's campaign finance law.

Cuomo said this summer he's crafting a congestion pricing plan for the city as a means to cut traffic and raise funding for the beleaguered, state - run Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

That's because run - offs fall under state law, not city law, and the state allows campaign funds to pay for criminal defense lawyers.

Nixon, who has never run for elected office, did agree with de Blasio that the city shouldn't fund half of the MTA's $ 800 million Subway Action Plan, which aims to bring short - term service improvements to the system.

Oliver Rosenberg's campaign says that days after he filed papers to run in the June 28 primary, he was contacted by a Nadler ally who offered to raise thousands of dollars in campaign funds if Rosenberg instead ran for a City Council seat.

A prominent Bronx politician lobbied to run a new City Council committee that oversees taxis and car services after collecting thousands in campaign funds from the industry.

He's taking advantage of the fact that while city law mandates donations for primary and general elections can only be used for lawyers handling non-criminal matters related to a campaign, funds raised for run - off elections face no such restriction.

Between 2001 and 2009, only 51 percent of candidates running in New York City elections received the maximum amount of public matching funds.

AG Eric Schneiderman is investigating Yitzhok Leshinsky, a donor to NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, who received millions in city funds to run a homeless services nonprofit, and used some of that money as loans for his other businesses.

For larger jobs, Oddo will use the $ 20,000 he allocated in his last year in City Council to fund a on - call mobile litter response team run by Project One, which will start in a few weeks.

«Asking those at the top to do a bit more will go a long way in funding this crucial service, which keeps our city running 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.»

The former head of the city firefighters union — who now runs the FDNY's pension fund — was arrested Wednesday for allegedly crashing his government car in Manhattan while drunk...

Last year Mr. Martinez ran into trouble with the City Campaign Finance Board for submitting, in classic Uptown style, «self - created, non-contemporaneous» vendor receipts in order to receive matching fund reimbursement for non-existing expenses... okay maybe his campaign just lost the receipts... still, I would love to see what the forged ones look like.

Graziano's $ 175 contribution to Hahn will be matched 6 to 1 by the city's matching funds program and will be used to fund campaign related initatives to unseat Democrat Peter Koo, who is running for reelection.

He did so by raising the minimum of $ 174,000 needed to qualify for matching funds from the city Campaign Finance Board, and running a campaign debate sponsors deemed visible enough to merit time on the debate stage.

The latest campaign funding for the crowded field running to replace City Councilman Dan Halloran (R - Whitestone) showed Bayside's Austin Shafran, former government spokesman for the Empire State Development authority, in the lead with Whitestone attorney Paul Vallone not far behind.

Walsh's budget office was able to cut more than $ 3 million in projected spending, but the city will run an $ 11 million deficit by taking money from its «rainy day» fund.

But both leaders are likely going to have to come up with more cash — both from state and city funds, and from Washington, assuming they can find a way to work with the Republicans who run the federal government.

Public campaign funding systems have been successful in New York City, Connecticut, Arizona and Maine because they provide enough public funds for candidates to run competitive campaigns.»

The city has resorted to spending reserves and capital funds meant for repairs just to keep NYCHA running, he said.

In 2012, he pleaded guilty to fraud for using city money to help fund his Senate run and served two years in prison.

The state - run ESD originally planned to fund its Kingsbridge commitment with money from the Transformative Investment Fund, a $ 400 million budgetary pool created by former State Sen. Dean Skelos last year to support projects, which senators would help pick, that «create or retain jobs» in New York City and on Long Islfund its Kingsbridge commitment with money from the Transformative Investment Fund, a $ 400 million budgetary pool created by former State Sen. Dean Skelos last year to support projects, which senators would help pick, that «create or retain jobs» in New York City and on Long IslFund, a $ 400 million budgetary pool created by former State Sen. Dean Skelos last year to support projects, which senators would help pick, that «create or retain jobs» in New York City and on Long Island.

He reported arranging to pay for the mailing out of his Assembly campaign funds and his leadership political action committee, which could run afoul of the city's Campaign Finance Board, which is far more stringent than the notoriously lax state Board of Elections.

With no oversight or subpoena power, «it is clear by now that the public advocate position has just become a taxpayer - funded method to run for mayor of the city of New York,» Sliwa said.

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Just days before Hurricane Sandy struck the city last October, Queens District Leader Albert Baldeo (D), who ran for the City Council twice before, was accused of trying to boost his matching funds by using phony donaticity last October, Queens District Leader Albert Baldeo (D), who ran for the City Council twice before, was accused of trying to boost his matching funds by using phony donatiCity Council twice before, was accused of trying to boost his matching funds by using phony donations.

In advance of a deadline on Saturday, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) agreed to grant the Messier - run Kingsbridge National Ice Center another month to produce $ 138 million in funding for the first phase of the complex it plans to build at the site of the vacant armory in the Bronx.

Speaking to 1010 WINS, City Comptroller John Liu questioned that use of funds, and said Weiner should run for mayor instead.

It comes in the case against state Sen. Malcolm Smith (D - Queens), who stands accused of scheming with officials in New York City and Rockland County to raise funds for his one - time attempt to switch parties and run for mayor as a Republican.

I run a nonprofit, Neighborhood Family Services Coalition, that helps maximize funding for free after - school programs, community centers and summer jobs for young people throughout the city.

[From The WSJ] John Liu, a former New York City comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, accused the city Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching fuCity comptroller who ran unsuccessfully for mayor last year, accused the city Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching fucity Campaign Finance Board in a federal lawsuit of unlawfully denying his campaign millions of dollars in public matching funds.

The non-binding budget resolution included such IDC asks as a provision to create an independent monitor to oversee the troubled New York City Housing Authority, diverting more than $ 400 million in city sales tax money to the MTA, and creating a secure choice savings account that would allow workers with no retirement savings plan to set aside money in a fund run by the stCity Housing Authority, diverting more than $ 400 million in city sales tax money to the MTA, and creating a secure choice savings account that would allow workers with no retirement savings plan to set aside money in a fund run by the stcity sales tax money to the MTA, and creating a secure choice savings account that would allow workers with no retirement savings plan to set aside money in a fund run by the state.

De Blasio's administration is requesting a change in the budgetary language that prevents New York City from using state funds to subsidize rents for homeless families leaving city - run sheltCity from using state funds to subsidize rents for homeless families leaving city - run sheltcity - run shelters.

From colleges to cultural groups and nonprofits that run foreclosure prevention programs, organizations pleaded their cases for a share of Borough President Helen Marshall's discretionary funds in the city budget last week.

Why was Joe Percoco using his taxpayer - funded New York City office during the eight - month period in 2014 when he was on leave from the Executive Chamber to run Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign?

New York City Comptroller John Liu's former campaign treasurer Jia «Jenny» Hou will appeal her conviction on charges of using phony donors to obtain public - matching funds for his unsuccessful run for mayor.

But it does not tinker with the fundamental formula by which the city allocates aid, which advocates for the publicly funded, privately run schools had encouraged and Mr. Cuomo had proposed.

Since 2007, Oddo has raised nearly $ 350,000 in campaign funds for his borough president run, according to the New York City Campaign Finance Board.

Two veteran Democrats are challenging Mr. de Blasio in the primary: Tony Avella, a state senator from Queens who has challenged the mayor's approach to homelessness and fought for a Staten Island family trying to keep a large pig as a pet; and Sal Albanese, an Italian - born lawyer and former City Councilman from southwestern Brooklyn who, in his third mayoral run, has argued for a new tax on nonprimary residences — a «pied - à - terre» tax — to help fund affordable housing.