Sentences with phrase «york slush fund»
His Campaign for One New York slush fund collected a whopping $ 350,000 from the UFT scarcely a month before City Hall lavished that nine - year contract on the union.
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And two - thirds of the donors to his Campaign for One New York slush fund were doing city business or seeking city action when they contributed.
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«This program was supposed to make sure credit flowed to Main Street,» Republican Sen. Charles Grassley recently noted, «but instead it has been used as a slush fund to pick winners and losers in New York and Detroit.
More from E.J.: «New York's tentative state budget deal would pour another $ 385 million into the biggest, murkiest pork - barrel slush fund Albany has ever seen.»
New York's tentative state budget deal would pour another $ 385 million into the biggest, murkiest pork - barrel slush fund Albany has ever seen.
«This case stands for a very simple but important principle, which is that you can not use your campaign account as a slush fund to avoid public scrutiny,» said Schneiderman, D - New York.
Critics and ethics watchdogs blasted the nonprofit Campaign for One New York as a slush fund for the mayor.
The report notes that one of these board members, Rob Speyer of Tishman Speyer, gave the maximum contribution to the Cuomo campaign during the 2010 cycle, $ 55,900, before incorporating what the New York Times has called the Governor's «secret slush fund» and pledging $ 1 million to the effort.
He raised as much as $ 40 million and deposited it in various slush funds he formed, including the Campaign for One New York, which he started before he even took the oath of office.
Bharara prosecuted and won convictions against several members of the New York City Council for misappropriating funds from non-profits they controlled through discretionary «slush funds.»
«Be wary of slush funds,» US Attorney Preet Bharara last week warned officials from across New York.
Be wary of slush funds for council members,» Bharara told the Association of Towns of the State of New York at the Marriott Marquis in Midtown.
For two years, Mayor de Blasio has used his personal slush fund, the Campaign for One New York, to pocket millions from fat - cat donors seeking special favors from City Hall...
Stringer was also a vocal critic of the Campaign for One New York, de Blasio's political nonprofit, calling it a «slush fund» shortly after de Blasio had been criticized by the Campaign Finance Board for how the nonprofit raised and spent funds.
In addition, «at least five people have quit the nonprofit, alleging that it was becoming a «slush fund» for Manhattan politicians» reported the New York Post.