Sentences with phrase «tuesday on campaign finance»

MANHATTAN — The campaign treasurer for embattled City Comptroller John Liu was arrested Tuesday on campaign finance fraud charges — the latest blow to the presumptive mayoral candidate who has been wrangling with allegations about his fundraising efforts for months.

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The FBI conducted the search because of concerns that the money may have violated campaign finance law, the Washington Post reported on Tuesday.

«Something was missing at a public hearing held by the State Senate on Tuesday to examine New York City's campaign finance system: the public.»

Senate Democrats reported owing their main consulting firm The Parkside Group $ 185,808 in their campaign finance report made public on Tuesday morning, but the filing shows the figure represented a bill that had recently been recorded, not a formal loan.

Democratic lawmakers in the state Senate on Tuesday called for a suite of election law changes that are designed to make it easier to vote, strengthen disclosure for campaign finance laws and close loopholes in the law.

BRASILIA (Reuters)- Brazil's top electoral court on Tuesday decided to hear new witnesses in an illegal campaign financing case that could remove President Michel Temer from office, delaying any verdict in the trial until at least May.

Good Government Groups to Cuomo and Legislative Leaders: Pass Reform Before Budget Deadline Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

The Governor embraced campaign finance reform as a priority in his State of the State Address back in January, but had not introduced his own bill on the issue until Tuesday of this week.

But Spitzer has two advantages: a personal fortune to finance a future campaign and a history of fighting misdeeds on Wall Street, said Peter Elkind, author of «Rough Justice: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer,» which is due out on Tuesday.

Former U.S. Senate candidate Wendy Long blasted the federal government's «shameful overreach» in the case of Dinesh D'Souza, the prominent conservative commentator who pleaded guilty on Tuesday in connection to campaign finance violations.

Good Government Groups, NYC City Councilman Ask Moreland Commission to Consider Comprehensive Campaign Finance Reform Good - government groups and a New York City Councilman were also present at the Moreland Commission hearing on Tuesday.

Progressive leaders and Democratic state lawmakers on Tuesday said they wanted a measure overhauling campaign finance that included a public system of funding for campaigns, saying they wouldn't accept any «watered down» compromises.

The four leaders of the Senate and Assembly on Tuesday huddled for about two hours with Gov. Andrew Cuomo and emerged to say little had been discussed in the way of hot - button topics like the Dream Act, medical marijuana or the public financing of campaigns.

Republican incumbent Lt. Gov. Phil Scott of Berlin brought in over $ 52,000 by the campaign finance report filing deadline on Tuesday.

On Tuesday, the endorsed Republican candidate for governor in Connecticut applied to use the state's public financing program to fund his gubernatorial campaign.

Campaign finance reform advocates demonstrate outside the office of N.Y. State Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan (R - 2) in Smithtown, N.Y., on Tuesday.

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PARIS — Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy was held in custody on Tuesday and questioned by magistrates investigating whether late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi helped finance his 2007 election campaign,...

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has more than $ 35 million on hand for his re-election effort, according to campaign finance reports filed with the state Board of Elections released on Tuesday.

In an open letter released on Tuesday, Gipson called for a special session to deal with ethics and campaign finance legislation, namely the closing of the loophole in state election that allows for unlimited donations to flow from a web of limited liability companies.

Comptroller Tom DiNapoli will appear on a town - hall telephone call Tuesday evening held by advocates backing public financing for political campaigns.

Advocates for the public financing of political campaigns on Tuesday released letters sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the top legislative leaders in the Assembly and senate urging them to include a public financing program in the state budget.

Less than a week after announcing he wouldn't run for re-election, Republican state Sen. Greg Ball retained the services of attorney Joe Tacopina for $ 25,000, his campaign finance filing made public on Tuesday shows.

During his fifth annual «State of the City» address at Kings Theatre in Brooklyn on Tuesday night, de Blasio unveiled a 10 - point «DemocracyNYC» plan that includes the creation of a Charter Review Commission that will reform the city's campaign finance system and a CDO who will lead a series of initiatives to get 1.5 million New Yorkers registered to vote by 2022.

Calls for Voter Reform: Voter turnout was low as usual for this week's elections, and on Tuesday, the «Vote Better NY» coalition, led by NYC Votes, the voter outreach arm of the city's Campaign Finance Board, along with other advocacy and good government organizations launched a petition drive to highlight the importance of election reform and call on lawmakers to pass legislation to modernize elections in New York.

Senate Majority Leader Dean Skelos would rather spend money earmarked for the public financing of state political campaigns go to education, reiterating his opposition to a measure introduced by Speaker Sheldon Silver in the Assembly on Tuesday.

No challengers were listed Tuesday on the city Campaign Finance Board's web site as planning to run against Koo in 2013, but the race is still in its absolute infancy and there are rumblings among northeast Queens political types that the field could eventually include as many as six or seven candidates as it did in 2009.

Beebe called Darr on Tuesday to ask for his resignation, according to a spokesman for Beebe, after an Arkansas ethics commission ruled that Darr had broken 11 campaign finance laws since 2010.

By the end of the day on Tuesday more than 20 Republicans and Democrats who have formed gubernatorial campaigns or exploratory campaigns for statewide office filed their third - quarter campaign finance reports.

Opponents of campaign - finance laws hope that the case argued Tuesday — McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission — will carry on the work the justices did in Citizens United in 2010, when they struck down as unconstitutional a ban on corporations making independent expenditures in elections.

According to city and state campaign finance filings to be released on Tuesday, Garodnick — a Democrat who represents parts of the Upper East Side, Peter Cooper Village and Stuyvesant Town — has raised a total of nearly $ 1.5 million from a state and two city accounts.

Several good - government groups, including the New York Public Interest Research Group, Common Cause, Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters, and the Brennan Center, gathered in Albany on Tuesday to encourage state leaders to enact comprehensive campaign finance reform.

The New York City Campaign Finance Board (CFB) announces the release of the official NYC Votes Voter Guide for the special election in Bronx Council District 17 that will be held on Tuesday, February 23, 2016.

The Democratic - led Assembly on Tuesday released its one - house budget resolution that includes income disclosure proposals as well as campaign - finance reform measures, but does not embrace the plan released by Gov. Andrew Cuomo in his budget amendments.

On Tuesday, state Republican Party spokesman David Laska said Gibson's resounding win against a well - financed challenger in a competitive district offered a «blueprint» for how Republicans can overcome Democrats» two - to - one enrollment advantage in a statewide campaign.

Teachout was at the Capitol on Tuesday to urge lawmakers and Cuomo to pass tighter campaign finance and government ethics rules.

Supporters of campaign finance reform rallied outside a hearing on Tuesday held by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo's commission on public corruption.

Washington (CNN)- New York Rep. Michael Grimm's threat to heave a reporter off a balcony in the Cannon House office building rotunda, caught on a still - hot mic Tuesday night after the State of the Union Address, has only brought more attention to an investigation into his campaign finances.

In response to the good government groups» call on Tuesday, Cuomo spokesman Rich Azzopardi told the Albany Times - Union this: «We will be discussing many ethics issues this session, including campaign finance reform, outside income for legislators and more disclosure by not - for - profits as to who actually funds them and whether they are shadow lobbyists.»

ALBANY — Something was missing at a public hearing held by the State Senate on Tuesday to examine New York City's campaign finance system: the public.

At 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, the NYC Campaign Finance Board's Voter Assistance Advisory Committee will hold a public meeting at 100 Church St.

On Tuesday, the Supreme Court of the United States heard McCutcheon vs. Federal Election Commission, which may become as much a chapter of the history of climate change as it is a case about campaign finance law.