Sentences with phrase «accepting about $»

Hevesi, also an ex-state assemblyman and city comptroller from Forest Hills, was sentenced to one to four years in prison in April for accepting about $ 1 million in gifts, including trips to Israel -LSB-...]

Prosecutors say Edwards broke federal law by accepting about $ 725,000 from Mellon and more than $ 200,000 from Fred Baron, a now - deceased Texas lawyer who was his finance chairman.

Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has accepted about $ 1 million from LLCs since 2011, according to ProPublica's analysis.

Stefanowski, who also has accepted about $ 150,000 in individual contributions, paid a $ 50,000 consulting fee to Arthur Laffer, a former economic adviser to President Ronald Reagan, presumably for a plan to eliminate the state income tax that he and Laffer promoted around the state in December.

In court papers, the government said Stevenson accepted about $ 20,000 in bribes in exchange for drafting, proposing and agreeing to enact legislation to aid his co-defendants» businesses, including an adult day care center in the Bronx, the «Westchester Avenue Center,» which opened a month ago.

Everything will be paid current or paid off (accept about $ 5k in medical bills which our mortgage broker said they can try and work around).

Analysis also showed that the groups accepted about $ 80 million through Donors Capital Fund and Donors Trust, two groups that have been confirmed is a key financial source for key U.S - based cliamate change denial groups.

Not exact matches

They must either accept his bid to buy out shareholders for $ 13.65 (or about $ 24 billion), or vote it down, forcing Dell and his backers into an even more protracted battle with activist shareholder Carl Icahn.

He is concerned about the issue of childhood obesity in the U.S., and raced to raise $ 1 million for the Jamie Oliver Food Foundation, which helps schools develop and improve programs focused on food and nutrition (Lawrence's website is still accepting donations).

«We all know about the stresses that are going on in this city at $ 40 - a-barrel oil,» he said as he accepted the Distinguished Business Leader Award from the Calgary Chamber of Commerce and the Haskayne School of Business.

Pilbara - focused Flinders Mines has recommended its shareholders accept an improved takeover offer from private New Zealand company Todd Corporation that values the target at about $ 74 million.

Metals X looks set to succeed in its long - running battle for control of Aditya Birla Minerals, with the takeover target recommending shareholders accept an increased offer that values the company at about $ 103 million.

Quebec has drawn at least $ 1.9 billion (# 1.5 billion) from Chinese investment, though it only accepts about 1,500 people a year — a small amount compared to what it was in the past when it didn't have a yearly quota, Katz added.

She expects earnings per share of $ 3.52 in 2006, the year in which its retail strategy will be unveiled, and a majority of analysts have a Buy on the company — which is something you might not expect, considering the accepted wisdom about the China Threat.

The court ordered an auction, but when no other suitors presented themselves, Gaglardi's offer of US$ 51 million cash for the team and the assumption of debts worth about $ 100 million was accepted (ESPN reports the final tally as being higher, around US$ 265 million).

But in late November, shortly before the FCC began accepting applications from TV stations to sell spectrum, Blackstone's LocusPoint agreed to sell three stations in Baltimore, Detroit and Buffalo, New York, for about $ 24 million, according to FCC filings reviewed by Reuters.

Sun admitted to taking advantage of his post to accept bribes worth about 170 million yuan ($ 27 million) from 2002 to 2017 together with people affiliated with him, the state - run Xinhua News Agency reported.

In this edition of Graphic Intelligence we see how, restated to its true value in accordance to commonly accepted accounting standards, the Ontario baseline deficit in the upcoming 2018/2019 fiscal year would be about $ 7 billion, growing to a projected $ 10 billion in four years — and this before any new spending in the 2018 budget.

In its first day accepting the currency, Overstock took in about $ 126,000 in sales.

Yeah, that was a time not that long ago when Bitcoin climbed from about $ 900 a unit to nearly $ 20,000 and all manner of businesses — everything from real estate outfits to online dating services — announced they would accept them as payment.

I accept that Barca, for instance were helped by the city authority some years ago, when the bought the training ground for some $ 200m, but the truth is, in the modern football world major success is only possible by tossing huge sums of money about.

Just think about it: if you were trying to balance a very tight budget in an operation which lives or dies based on how well students accept your food, and if many (sometimes, the vast majority) of those students came from homes in which nutritionally balanced, home cooked meals are far from the norm, and if the food industry was bombarding those kids with almost $ 2 billion a year in advertising promoting junk food and fast food, and if you had no money of your own for nutrition education to even begin to counter those messages, and if some of those kids also had the option of going off campus to a 7 - 11 or grabbing a donut and chips from a PTA fundraising table set up down the hall, wouldn't you, too, be at least a tiny bit tempted to ramp up the white flour pasta, pizza and fries and ditch the tasteless, low - sodium green beans?

But her ruling left intact six other charges related to the alleged payoffs from COR Development Co. and about $ 280,000 in bribes Percoco allegedly accepted from an exec with Competitive Power Ventures.

Asked if Curran's new policy was prompted by the arrest last week of Mangano's chief deputy Rob Walker, who was charged with lying to the FBI about accepting $ 5,000 and a trip to a Notre Dame football game from an unidentified county vendor, Curran said, «This is something we've been working on.

The IBO estimated that by June 2013, the tab will hit $ 3.8 billion — and that assumes most unions accept retroactive raises of just 2 percent, about the rate of inflation.

Grant Lally, like Achilles, has a fatal weakness: he paid off the government when the Federal Elections Commission fined him $ 280,000 for accepting illegal campaign contributions from his parents, and then lied about it.

Lhota has taken in about $ 97,000 from real estate - related firms since he began accepting contributions this year, about 7 percent of his total of $ 1.3 million.

But while the announcer talks about the AG's tough plan to clean up the Capitol and reign in special interests, red script appears across the screen that says things like: «His agenda looks a lot like Spitzer's» (that's from the Times magazine) and «Andrew Cuomo has accepted $ 9 million from special interests.»

The Democrats paid for pro-Malloy mass mailings with about $ 250,000 from the state party's federally regulated campaign account, which is allowed by federal law to accept heavy contributions from state contractors despite the state clean - election laws» ban on contractors» money going to candidates for state office.

The drivers will, however, have to accept some lost wages: As part of the agreement, they will all serve a two - week suspension, which means giving up about $ 2,560 each.

Despite all the tough talk at the Capitol about refusing to accept any new taxes or fees while the budget negotiations have dragged on, it turns out that the idea of raising taxes to help close the $ 9.2 billion budget deficit has been on the table for some time now.

Tabone criticized Braunstein about contributions he accepted, including $ 25,000 from one developer funneled through limited liability companies — which both camps admitted was legal — and large donations from Guardian Life, a company under investigation by the state attorney general's office, and Delaware North, a bidder for the scandal - plagued Aqueduct Race Track racino contract.

That's $ 62,125 to be precise, as the harsh yet fair penalty for soliciting and accepting five free tickets to the opening game of the 2009 World Series — and then lying about it to the state Commission on Public Integrity.

Stringer can only spend about $ 4 million on his campaign because he's accepting public matching funds.

Perhaps most painful is that because of the way funds (about $ 322m) returned from Switzerland were mishandled, we now have to accept conditionalities before our stolen assets are even returned to us.»

Last year, the Oneidas accepted only a portion of the money, about $ 200,000, to help maintain its Village of the White Pines housing development south of Oneida.

O.K., maybe the state ethics commission did say last week that he had lied about soliciting and accepting free Yankees tickets, and fined him $ 62,125.

The 20 men who sniffed the pheromone offered, on average, half a euro more than the control group (about $ 5), and accepted offers around half a euro lower (about $ 3), the researchers report this week in PLOS ONE.

The ethicists were particularly concerned about the proposed «high levels of payment» — up to $ 4000 — but deemed this was not an «undue influence» because no one had an obligation to accept the offer.

San Diego participants in this national event have raised about $ 650,000 so far, and this number could continue to rise, as donations are still being accepted.

And those doctors cost about $ 500 for the 1st visit not including labs or follow ups... and they did not accept any health insurance.

Arkansas's original study, conducted the same year, cost about the same initially but rose to over twice that amount ($ 800,000) when the authors accepted a commission to ascertain whether districts used their extra money in a way consistent with the consultants» evidence - based policies.

In the latest disclosure about the department's public relations efforts, the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams acknowledged this month that he had accepted some $ 240,000 in federal money for ads on his syndicated television show and for other help in promoting the No Child...

Characterized by instability and lack of accountability, Milwaukee's voucher program has resulted in numerous stories like one last year in a local paper about a minister and his wife who accepted $ 2.3 million in taxpayer funding only to close their Lifeskills Academy abruptly during the school year.

Malloy claims that his «initiative» is providing Connecticut's 30 most struggling school districts with another $ 132 million in state aid, but the truth is that this year's increase is only about $ 45 million and that in order to get those funds, school districts were required to accept a series of new mandates and programs aimed at further implementing Malloy's corporate education reform agenda and diverting scarce public dollars to private companies.

And very likely in the near future, if President Obama has his way, they'll just have to accept not getting part of about $ 14.5 billion in Elementary and Secondary Education Act money.

In a blog post that she wrote about her deal, Hocking said something that drove home just how much the industry has changed: she said that she chose to accept the $ 2 - million offer from St. Martins even though she knew she could probably make more money by self - publishing the books.

For $ 10, Audiobook Boom (if it accepts your book), sends a listing about your audiobook to its list of almost 5,000 subscribers.

It might seem crazy to get excited about what amounted to $ 1.70, but at the time, I considered it a score having a short story accepted at a magazine with copies as payment.

And it feels pretty strongly about the call, too, suggesting that it would happily accept 30 percent of digital book revenue — that's the same percentage it currently receives from Hachette — if the publisher dropped digital prices to $ 9.99 across the board.