Sentences with phrase «after the campaign finance»

After campaign finance reports revealed the payments, Massa said in a statement that he did not authorize the $ 40,000 check to Racalto and accused his former confidant of falsely telling the campaign comptroller that the fee had been approved.

As Rich Calder noted in Tuesday's Post, Mayor de Blasio took off for a Rhode Island family vacation just days after the Campaign Finance Board handed him an extra $ 1.6 million in public funds for the Democratic primary — cash he's supposedly entitled to because that race is so competitive.

Not exact matches

Mark Cuban speculated Tuesday about the scope of Donald Trump's wealth, after the Federal Election Commission released a dismal campaign - finance report from the presumptive Republican nominee.

Steven Mnuchin, national finance chairman of President - elect Donald Trump's campaign, waves after speaking to media at Trump Tower, Wednesday, Nov. 16, 2016, in New York.

After its successful Kickstarter campaign, Pebble raised $ 15 million in series A financing from Charles River Ventures this year.

If that were legal, there would be no point in having campaign finance laws: Candidates could accept giant loans, not report them, and pay them back after the election had ended.

If that were legal, there would be no point in having campaign finance laws: Candidates could accept giant loans, not report them, and pay them back after the election.

Federal authorities did not specify exactly what they're investigating, but reports after his hotel, office, and home were raided suggest authorities are looking at potential bank fraud, wire fraud, and campaign finance violations.

After all, legal analysts said, charging Mr Trump's lawyer with a campaign finance or bank fraud violation seems far less weighty than Mr Mueller's pursuit of potential campaign coordination with Russia.

After all, legal analysts said, charging Trump's lawyer with a campaign finance or bank fraud violation seems far less weighty than Mueller's pursuit of potential campaign coordination with Russia.

Mitsubishi Motors is making slow but steady progress after a decade of recession woes in Japan and the U.S., corporate cover - ups and a failed sales campaign to offer «0 -0-0» financing for 0 percent down, 0 percent interest and $ 0 monthly payments for a...

Edwards, a candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, was found not guilty of campaign finance violations in 2012 after a donor paid $ 1 million to keep knowledge of Edwards's out - of - wedlock child from becoming public the year before his presidential bid.

The commitments come after DiNapoli, along with the Council of Institutional Investors, called on companies to increase their transparency as to how they finance political and issue campaigns.

Acting District Attorney Michael Flaherty, D, opened the investigation after an article in the Daily News detailed allegations that organizations, connected to New York City mayor Bill DeBlasio, were skirting campaign finance limits by funneling money through county committees for State Senate races in 2014.

Also on the NYC Indy Party reform to - do list: Initiative and referendum, term limits for legislators, letting voters change their enrollment after a one - month waiting period, nonpartisan administration of the Board of Elections, nonpartisan redistricting and campaign finance reform.

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 Charter.

... In 1988, Lowey ousted DioGuardi after a report that Joseph Crabtree, the head of DioGuardi's campaign finance committee, had funneled more than $ 50,000 in illegal contributions to the campaign through his numerous auto dealerships.

It deems his record at HUD «mixed» and noted that his decision to take a job with developer (and his mega-campaign contributor / now campaign finance chairman) Andrew Farkas after he had been sued «raised questions about his judgment.»

So far, we haven't seen any specific campaign finance reform proposals from Cuomo after his State of the State mention that thrilled good government advocates.

An Albany City Court judge ordered former Niagara County Republican Chairman Henry Wojtaszek to pay a $ 1,000 fine for violating a state campaign finance law in 2012, after he pleaded guilty as part of a deal with prosecutors working on the case against former State Sen. George Maziarz.

She expects to be handcuffed, put in a police car, driven to the courthouse and brought before a judge after being secretly indicted by a grand jury run by a special prosecutor who was secretly selected to investigate campaign finance filings from 2009.

Add campaign finance reform to the list of topics that will be up for discussion — at least in some corners — during the post-budget portion of the legislative session after lawmakers return from their two - week Easter / Passover break.

On changes to the state's campaign finance laws, Skelos indicated he would be open to reforms that did not include a public financing system that is modeled after the New York City system.

After introducing his campaign finance reform legislation in Albany, Governor Andrew Cuomo held events in Syracuse and Buffalo to push for his public financing proposal and other anti-corruption measures.

Faced with losing the ballot line to a challenger who tapped into resentment over his estate tax cuts, charter - school championing and failure to deliver campaign finance reform, Governor Andrew Cuomo won the party's designation only after promising to fight for Democratic control of the state Senate and deliver a progressive policy wish list.

New Yorkers Against Corruption, a nonprofit advocacy group that opposes a convention, had $ 616,893 in its campaign account as of Oct. 6, after spending $ 431,292 since July, according to state campaign finance records.

The State Board of Elections is completely revamping its aging technology, and will deploy a new campaign finance reporting system after the 2016 elections.

After lawmakers failed to pass the ethics reforms he proposed last year — including closing the LLC loophole — Cuomo formed a Moreland Commission to investigate corruption and recommend new campaign finance laws.

Suffolk Presiding Officer DuWayne Gregory (D - Copiague), who announced his candidacy a little over a week ago, did not file a campaign finance report because he only announced after the deadline for the most recent filing.

The Post renamed the WFP the «Working Chutzpah Party» after it claimed the Kurger - Boyland - Lispsky corruption scandal is proof New York needs a taxpayer - funded campaign finance program like the one that already exists in NYC.

Deals are at hand in Albany to combat heroin addiction and serve alcohol at Sunday brunch, but good - government advocates are blasting the lack of any agreement on ethics or campaign finance reform after years of scandal.

Sen. Roy McDonald's now - suspended campaign spent $ 14,000 on polling after coming up short in the September primary, his most recent campaign - finance report shows.

The June 25 event to raise funds for Mr. Cuomo's 2014 re-election campaign includes a host committee reception, dinner and musical performance, and is set to occur five days after the scheduled end of the legislative session in Albany, by which time the governor has pledged to attain legislative action on campaign - finance reform, including lowering contribution limits.

Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr. joined the ongoing federal investigation into de Blasio's fundraising tactics last January after the Board of Elections» chief investigative officer sent a «criminal referral» to Vance's office alleging the efforts of the mayor's nonprofit to unseat the Republicans violated campaign finance laws, Vance has said.

After a new wave of indictments against state lawmakers in the spring, Cuomo tried to convince the legislature to adopt public financing of campaigns, the closing of loopholes for large donors, and better policing of the laws.

Advocates took out their anger and frustration on the Cuomo administration and leaders of the state Senate, after it became clear that a progressive agenda that includes abortion rights and public campaign financing is likely dead for the legislative session.

Sal Albanese spent 16 years as a city councilman and originally sponsored the campaign - finance law he was accused of violating in 2013, when he bowed out of the mayoral race after a lackluster campaign.

While the presidential campaign enjoyed a boost days after the announcement, it lost momentum after the press scrutinized the finances of Ferraro's husband and she declined to release her tax returns after promising to do so.

But the landscape seemed to begin to shift in the Democrat's direction in January of this year, after Mr. Grimm physically threatened NY1 reporter Michael Scotto when the journalist tried to ask about a four - year investigation into the Republican's financing of his first campaign.

After all, in one notable revision of New York City's campaign - finance rules a few years ago, union groups got the City Council to carve out special exceptions just for (yup) unions.

Senate Republicans in their campaign finance disclosure filings due Monday will report having nearly $ 1.4 million cash on hand combined in their two state campaign accounts after having raised $ 1.85 million the past six months.

It appears unlikely at this moment that a campaign finance deal will be reached between Cuomo and legislative leaders before the WFP meets to consider the endorsement, which means activists will be asked to trust that the governor can deliver — something about which they have grown wary after four - plus years of lip service on this issue and very little actual movement.

The only AG contender who has not yet filed any campaign finance reports is the lone Republican candidate, Staten Island DA Dan Donovan, who entered the race after the January deadline had already passed.

Modeled after New York City's campaign finance program, it applies only to candidates for state comptroller.

The resolution, approved earlier this month after some back - and - forth haggling over pre-Kindergarten spending levels, the public financing of political campaigns and the Dream Act, doesn't go into detail as to what the sales tax exemptions and adjustments would cost in revenue to the state budget.

Silver, speaking to reporters after a breakfast to kick off the final day of the state Democratic Convention, pointed to the Dream Act and a statewide system of publicly financed campaigns as issues he'd like to see approved in the Senate.

Zeldin's fundraising comes after Republican former SEC prosecutor George Demos entered the race with a self - financed $ 1 million contribution to his campaign coffers.

After a late fund - raising start, Democrat John Choe was awarded $ 101,966 in public funds from the city Campaign Finance Board after not qualifying for matching funds earlier this mAfter a late fund - raising start, Democrat John Choe was awarded $ 101,966 in public funds from the city Campaign Finance Board after not qualifying for matching funds earlier this mafter not qualifying for matching funds earlier this month.

In May, two Liu campaign staffers were convicted in Manhattan Federal Court of attempted wire fraud after an undercover FBI operation caught them trying to skirt campaign finance laws.

After outlining his government ethics and campaign finance reform agenda is his January State of the State address, Cuomo has now held one public event dedicated to reform in the last five months.