Sentences with phrase «skirt campaign contribution limits»

While some ethics reform provisions were included (such as mandatory reporting of outside income and stricter per diem regulations), there was no major campaign finance reform, nor did the legislature close the LLC loophole that allows wealthy corporations to skirt campaign contribution limits.

Unless tentative decisions are reversed, the final budget will not include an expansion of the statute of limitations in child abuse civil and criminal cases, nor will it include new ethics provisions to address ongoing pay - to - play allegations in Albany or close loopholes that allow certain donors to skirt campaign contribution limits.

Cuomo released bills to close the loophole that allows donors to skirt campaign contribution limits by setting up limited liability companies, but those bills were rejected by the Senate.

Corporations Use Limited Liability Companies to Skirt Campaign Contribution Limits Limited Liability Companies associated with luxury real estate mogul Leonard Litwin have channeled more than $ 900,000 into races for the New York State Senate this election cycle, largely to Republicans seeking to hold on to majority control.

A memo from the chief enforcement officer at the New York state Board of Elections, first leaked to the Daily News, accuses the mayor's staff of improperly supervising a plan to help more Senate Democrats win office that skirted campaign contribution limits.

A memo from the chief enforcement officer at the state Board of Elections, first leaked to the Daily News, accuses the mayor's staff of improperly supervising a plan to help more Senate Democrats win office, that skirted campaign contribution limits.

Present local law fails to reasonably preclude — and could actually enable — county officers and employees from accepting an overabundance of questionable gifts, skirting campaign contribution limits through the use of the LLC loophole, abusing their offices and taxpayer funded items to freely self - promote their personal names and images (or «brand»), and awarding contracts to those vendors who unabashedly pay to play in county government.

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Investigators looking into de Blasio's fundraising practices are now scrutinizing his 2013 campaign for possible straw donors, checking to see if they were either reimbursed for their contributions or given cash to pass along to the campaign in order to skirt the city's donation limits.

The donors are either reimbursed for their contributions or given cash to pass along to the campaign in order to skirt the city's donation limits.

Horner, with NYPIRG, says the testimony illustrates the need to clean up New York's campaign finance laws by setting stricter caps on contributions and eliminating a loophole that allows donors to use LLCs or limited liability companies, to skirt existing donor limits.

The donors include George Soros and Time Warner Cable, who were legally able to skirt limits on direct contributions to Cuomo's individual campaign account.

Jenny Hou is accused of helping Liu's campaign skirt campaign finance laws by allegedly using straw donors to channel illegal contributions far above the legal limit into Liu's campaign coffers.

The loophole allows donors to skirt limitations on individual campaign contributions by donating anonymously through one or more limited liability companies.

The federal probe is checking whether some donors to de Blasio's mayoral run were either reimbursed for their contributions or given cash to pass along to the campaign in order to skirt the city's donation limits, according to sources.

There has been no shortage of broad ideas for disrupting the system: Banning outside incomes for lawmakers, enacting term limits, creating a truly independent ethics watchdog, closing a loophole that allows companies to skirt campaign - contribution limits, requiring more signoffs for expenditures of more than $ 1 million, to name a few.

They add another idea not on Cuomo's list, banning the prevalence of LLC's or Limited Liability Companies, used as a loophole by campaign donors to skirt contribution limits.

Horner said the testimony illustrates the need to clean up New York's campaign finance laws by setting stricter caps on contributions and eliminating a loophole that allows donors to use LLCs, or limited liability companies, to skirt existing donor limits.